Nicholas Ostler
Nicholas Ostler is a British scholar who studied Greek, Latin, philosophy, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford, before earning his Ph.D. in linguistics and Sanskrit under Noam Chomsky at MIT. His work spans the history of world languages, most notably in his 2005 language history of the world, and a 2007 biography of Latin arguing against its classification as a dead language.
His Latin title, Ad Infinitum, reflects his thesis that Latin speakers were unconscious of their world's limits.
He currently chairs the Foundation for Endangered Languages and resides in Bath, England.
