Thomas Olander | @olander.bsky.social
@2lander
Historical linguist. Associate professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. – Telefon: 60 70 56 89. – Moving away from Twitter.
Out now at CUP: “The Indo-European language family: A phylogenetic perspective”, edited by yours truly 😇 And… 🥁🥁🥁 … it’s Open Access! 🏆🏆🏆 Grab your own copy – or two if you want! – for *totally free* here: doi.org/10.1017/978110… #OpenAccess 1/11
Just published "Adjarian’s Armenian dialectology (1911): Translation and commentary" edited by Hossep Dolatian #openaccess #loc langsci-press.org/catalog/book/3…
Symposium in honor of Jochem Schindler (1944–1994) linguistik.univie.ac.at/news-events/ei…
Reconstructing Indo-European Prehistory: Lessons from Linguistics, Archaeology, and Genetics (October 30-31, 2024; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa) academia.edu/119747927/Reco… via @academia
Tomorrow (25.10) is the first day of the 35th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference! We start at 9:30 PDT. The conference is free and open to the public (in Royce 314). It will also be streamed on Zoom; you can register to receive the link here: pies.ucla.edu/conference/wec…
Now available for download from the publication server of the University of Cologne: The revised and expanded version of my dissertation “A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani)” kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/73732/ Proper book publication coming a while later.
Dr. Jörgenstein’s law of Breton arguments: “As any discussion grows longer, the probability of an argument involving Breton, in particular the Vanettais dialect, increases.” Let's all sit back and enjoy this textbook example 🥹
Sure, Pre-Indo-European substrates is fun and all, but what about Breton historical phonology? The internet is hungry for hot takes about the phonetics of <z> and <ff>, resonant length contrasts after unstressed vowels and morphophonemic spellings.
New book edited by @KroonenGuus: Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, methods, results It’s Open Access! Grab your copy here: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
Tobias forsøger at løse gåden om oldtidens sproglige problembarn: »Det lyder ret syret« videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund… #dkvid #dkforsk
I am happy to say that The Common Thread, a festschrift in the honour of prof. Eva Andersson Strand is online and open-access. And it includes a small paper on the origins of wool by myself, Laura Viñas Caron, Mikkel Nørtoft, Peder Flemestad and Christina Margariti. Link below:
Very proud to announce that my first book as a co-editor has been published! 😄 It combines perspectives from linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, religion, and explores the dynamics of power, gender, and mobility in Indo-European-speaking societies and Proto-Indo-European.
With the greatest pride I present: For over two years, the #OG_H_AM project, with the expert support of Daniel Bălteanu (Communications Office, @MaynoothUni) has been producing an info video about the ogam script and ogam texts. It was launched yesterday: youtu.be/wN_5lhovPbw
📕 #ReviewArticle What can linguistics teach us about the past? Our latest review article covers two books that examine how the Indo-European group of languages can be used to analyse archaeological and genetic data 1/2 🆓 buff.ly/3MGvRDx ✍️ Reviewed by @OsoDanes
Scholars of Early Gaelic and Proto-Celtic, the publications of Kim McCone are being digitised and uploaded to his new website for free download. Quite a bit there already and looks like there's more to come! kimmccone.org
