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John Aird Coutts Greppin (John A. C. Greppin) (born 1937 in Rochester, N.Y.) is Emeritus Professor of Lingusitics at Cleveland State University.

Biography
Greppin was born in Rochester, New York, on April 12, 1937. He was educated at the Allendale School, Dartmouth College; University of Rochester (graduated AB in Greek, 1961); University of Washington (graduated MA in Classics, 1966); UCLA (graduated Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies, 1972); Levzi Institut in Yerevan, Armenia, USSR (work in post-doctoral studies, 1974-75). Greppin's primary areas of study and interests were Comparative Armenian Phonolgy, History of Armenian Medicine, and Armenian Linguistic Prehistory.

Greppin's teaching career began at Stowe Preparatory School, Stowe, Vermont, 1961-62, where he taught Greek and Latin, then at the Woodstock Country School, Woodstock, Vermont, where he taught from 1962-65 and served as Admissions Director from 1968-69. Greppin was an interim assistant professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, from 1971-72, and taught at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisianna, from 1972-74. Beginning as assistant professor in 1975, he rose to associate and then full professorship at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Greppin was Director of the program in Linguistics at Cleveland State University from 1979-83, and again from 1999-. Greppin was a visiting professor of Lingusitics at Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, in 1993.

Publications

 * Initial Vowel and Aspiration in Classical Armenian. Studien zur armenischen Geschichte XIII. Vienna: Mechitaristen-Buchdruckerei, 1973.
 * Classical Armenian Nominal Suffixes: A Historical Survey. Studien zur armenischen Geschichte XV. Vienna: Mechitaristen-Buchdruckerei, 1973.
 * Classical and Middle Armenian Bird Names: A Linguistic, Taxonomic and Mythological Study. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1978.
 * Proceedings of the First International Conference of Armenian Linguistics (editor). Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1980.
 * Interrogativity: A Colloquium on the Grammar, Typology and Pragmatics of Questions in Seven Diverse Languages (edited with others). Typological Studies in Language IV. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984.
 * An Etymological Dictionary of the Indo-European Compnents of Classical Armenian. Venice: San Lazzaro, 1984.
 * Bark' Galianosi: The Greek-Armenian Dictionary to Galen. Anatolian and Caucasian Studies VII. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1986.
 * A Handbook of Armenian Dialectology (with Amalya Khachaturian). Anatolian and Caucasian Studies IX. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1986.
 * When World's Collide, The Indo-European and the Pre-Indo-Europeans: The Bellagio papers (edited with Thomas Markey). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Karoma Publications, 1990.
 * Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Armenian Lingusitics, Cleveland, Ohio, September 14-18, 1991. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1992.
 * Classical Armenian Authors: Studies in early Armenian Literature (editor) Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1994.
 * A Medieval Arabic-Armenian Botanical Dictionary. Studien zur armenischen Geschichte XV. Vienna: Mechitaristen-Buchdruckerei, 1997.
 * Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel, Part I: Ancient Languages and Philology (edited with others) Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Number 20. Washington Institute for the Study of Man, 1997.
 * Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel, Part II: Mythology and Religion (edited with others) Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Number 21. Washington Institute for the Study of Man, 1997.
 * The Diffusion of Greco-Roamn Medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus (edited with others) Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1999.

Articles
225 published in the standard Western, Soviet and Armenian Journals, Encyclopedias, Festschrifts, etc.

Reviews
300 reviews in the standard Western Journals, The New York Times Book review, The London Times Literary Supplement, The Boston Book Review, etc.

Journals edited

 * Annual of Armenian Lingusitics 1980-2002.
 * Raft: A Journal of Armenian Poetry and Criticism 1987-2000.
 * Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies 2000-2007.

Grants and Fellowships Received
IREX, ACLS, NEH, HIH, Rockeffeller Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation, AGBY Alex Manoogian Foundation

Medals and Honors Received

 * Silver Medal, Congregazione Mekhitarista, Venice, Italy, 1979.
 * Medal of David the Invincible, awarded by the Armenian Philosophical Academy, 2003.

Memberships and Associations

 * Associations Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes
 * Society for the Study of the Caucusus
 * American Philological Society
 * Society of Armenian Studies (exec. board 1982-86, 2002-; secretary 1983-85)
 * American Oriental Society
 * Caucasologia Europaea
 * Cleveland Skating Club
 * Union Club of Cleveland