Historical linguist. Associate professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. – Telefon: 60 70 56 89. – Moving away from Twitter.
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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/10.1017/978110875866…
#OpenAccess
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📘Hvordan følger man det danske sprog 6000 år tilbage i tiden? Det forsøger sprogforsker Thomas Olander bla at besvare i sin nye bog ’Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen’ om det danske sprogs udvikling 👉bit.ly/4gDmYcj #dkforsk @2lander
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Just published "Adjarian’s Armenian dialectology (1911): Translation and commentary" edited by Hossep Dolatian #openaccess #loc langsci-press.org/catalog/bo…
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Symposium in honor of Jochem Schindler (1944–1994)
linguistik.univie.ac.at/news…
Was the Danish language invented by Big Language History to sell more sound change?
That’s very hard to know. But now you can see for yourself¹ in my
⭐️⭐️⭐️ new book ⭐️⭐️⭐️:
Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen [Danish from the present to the Stone Age]
upress.dk/vare/dansk-fra-nut…
ALT »Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen« book cover
1. Provided you read Danish 😅
The publication has received generous support from @Carlsbergfondet. It would not have been possible to write it without @DFF_raad.
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Reconstructing Indo-European Prehistory: Lessons from Linguistics, Archaeology, and Genetics (October 30-31, 2024; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa) academia.edu/119747927/Recon… via @academia
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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…
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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 🥹
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…
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Tobias forsøger at løse gåden om oldtidens sproglige problembarn: »Det lyder ret syret« videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/… #dkvid #dkforsk
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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:
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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.
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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
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📕 #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
ALT Covers of the books reviewed with the text 'Review Article'.
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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/
The most visible mark they left was linguistic: they spoke a language, Proto-Indo-European, which is not attested in writing, but is the ancestor of a number of languages spoken in large parts of the world today, including Danish, English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi.
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The vocabulary is thus used to throw light on the archaeological cultures in which the various prehistoric language stages may have been spoken.
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