Thomas Olander
Biographic Data
| ID | 5639982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Olander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Olander |
| SIGNATURE | OLANDER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7938-2827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
Linguistic Phylogenetics and Words for Metals in Indo‐European
The prehistoric spread of Indo-European languages across Europe and Asia was a process with dramatic consequences that are still being felt in the modern world. 1 Today around half the world’s population speak an Indo-European language; some of the most widely spoken are Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, and Russian. The Indo-European languages are grouped into ten major subgroups, or branches: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenia…
The Indo-European Language Family
Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduc…
Dispersals and Diversification
Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-Euro…
To *b or not to *b
It is widely recognised that *b is a rare phoneme in the Proto-Indo-European stop system, but there is no agreement as to the reality of the few alleged examples of Proto-Indo-European *b. This paper approaches the problem from a phylogenetic perspective, assuming that Anatolian and Tocharian were the first two subgroups to separate from the rest of the Indo-European language family. From this perspective there is no evidence at all for the exist…
Tracing the Indo-Europeans
Indo-European cladistic nomenclature
The study examines the terminology currently in use for the higher-level subgroups of the Indo-European family tree. Based on the observation that the terminology is heterogeneous and confusing, the study discusses the central terms, suggesting that the whole language family and its ancestor should be referred to as “Indo-European” and “Proto-Indo-European” respectively. Under the hypothesis that the three first subgroups to branch off were Anato…
The Indo-European homeland
The dark past of Balto-Slavic prosody
Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology
Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic are traced back to Proto-Indo-European through a systematic comparison with the corresponding forms in related languages. Applying a redefinition of Proto-Slavic based on prehistoric loanword relations with neighbouring non-Slavic languages, Thomas O…
Buchbesprechungen
Proto-Indo-European ∗ -os in Slavic
Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility
Why does the accent jump back and forth in Russian words like golová 'head', acc. gólovu , gen. golový , dat. golové etc.? How come we find similar alternations in other Slavic languages and in a Baltic language like Lithuanian? The quest for the origin of the so-called "mobile accent paradigms" of Baltic and Slavic leads the reader through other Indo-European language branches such as Indo-Iranian, Greek and Germanic, all of which are relevant t…
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Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility
Why does the accent jump back and forth in Russian words like golová 'head', acc. gólovu , gen. golový , dat. golové etc.? How come we find similar alternations in other Slavic languages and in a Baltic language like Lithuanian? The quest for the origin of the so-called "mobile accent paradigms" of Baltic and Slavic leads the reader through other Indo-European language branches such as Indo-Iranian, Greek and Germanic, all of which are relevant t…
Proto-Indo-European ∗ -os in Slavic
Buchbesprechungen
Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology
Proto-Slavic, the reconstructed ancestor of the Slavic languages, presents a rich inflectional system inherited from Proto-Indo-European. In this handbook all the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic are traced back to Proto-Indo-European through a systematic comparison with the corresponding forms in related languages. Applying a redefinition of Proto-Slavic based on prehistoric loanword relations with neighbouring non-Slavic languages, Thomas O…
The dark past of Balto-Slavic prosody
Tracing the Indo-Europeans
Indo-European cladistic nomenclature
The study examines the terminology currently in use for the higher-level subgroups of the Indo-European family tree. Based on the observation that the terminology is heterogeneous and confusing, the study discusses the central terms, suggesting that the whole language family and its ancestor should be referred to as “Indo-European” and “Proto-Indo-European” respectively. Under the hypothesis that the three first subgroups to branch off were Anato…
The Indo-European homeland
Dispersals and Diversification
Dispersals and diversification offers linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Two chapters discuss the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European from an archaeological perspective, integrating and interpreting the new evidence from ancient DNA. Six chapters analyse the intricate relationship between the Anatolian branch of Indo-Euro…
To *b or not to *b
It is widely recognised that *b is a rare phoneme in the Proto-Indo-European stop system, but there is no agreement as to the reality of the few alleged examples of Proto-Indo-European *b. This paper approaches the problem from a phylogenetic perspective, assuming that Anatolian and Tocharian were the first two subgroups to separate from the rest of the Indo-European language family. From this perspective there is no evidence at all for the exist…
The Indo-European Language Family
Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to each other? This book brings together pioneering research from a team of international scholars to address this fundamental question. It provides an introduc…
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
Linguistic Phylogenetics and Words for Metals in Indo‐European
The prehistoric spread of Indo-European languages across Europe and Asia was a process with dramatic consequences that are still being felt in the modern world. 1 Today around half the world’s population speak an Indo-European language; some of the most widely spoken are Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, and Russian. The Indo-European languages are grouped into ten major subgroups, or branches: Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Armenia…
Linguistics and language evolution (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Slavic languages (6 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (5 works) · Celtic languages (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (3 works)