David B. Wharton
Contact Information
E-mail: wharton@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA
1115
Office
Phone: 336-334-5214
At UNCG Since: 1989 / 1993
Education
Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – 1992
M.A. University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – 1984
B.A. Cornell
College – 1979
Research Interests
Dr. Wharton is interested in the light that linguistics can shed on the study
of Latin literature, and his recent research has focused on the lexical semantics
of Latin. His current book project is called Latin Color in Context, a reassessment
of the Latin color vocabulary in light of recent linguistic and anthropological
research on color terms across the world's languages.
Selected Publications
- “Linguistic Semantics and the Representation of Word Meanings in Latin Dictionaries,” in Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin, ed. Renato Oniga, Rosella Iovino, and Giuliana Giusti, Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011, 255-78.
- “On the Distribution of Adnominal Prepositional Phrases in Latin Prose," Classical Philology 2009 104:2, 184-207.
- "Sunt Lacrimae Rerum: A Linguistic Exploration," Classical Journal 2008 103:3: 259-79.
Selected Awards and Honors
- National Science Foundation Grant, 1998-1999
