Departmental homepageProfessor Horrocks was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Downing College. After a period working in the oil industry, he completed his PhD and was elected a Research Fellow at Downing before taking up a Lectureship in Linguistics at SOAS, University of London. He returned to Cambridge in 1983 as Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of St John’s. He was elected Professor of Comparative Philology in 1997 and served in this role until his retirement in 2016.
Professor Horrocks is a specialist in the history and structure of the Greek and Latin languages, and has general interests in historical linguistics and linguistic theory (syntax, semantics, morphology).
Generative Grammar, Longman, London and New York, 1987 (many reprints).
Greek: a History of the Language and its Speakers, Longman, London and New York, 1997; 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford and Malden Mass., 2010.
The Blackwell history of the Latin Language (with James Clackson), Blackwell, Oxford and Nalden Mass., 2007.
The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek, 4 volumes (with D Holton, M Jansen, I Manolessou, T Lendari and N Toufexis), CUP, Cambridge, 2019.
