Thomas Olander | @olander.bsky.social

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

📘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

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…

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.

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…

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 🥹

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

@VidPeter Der står »Magdalénien Pyrénaïque« på æsken. Så kradserierne må være et pænt stykke over 10.000 år gamle. denstoredanske.lex.dk/magdal%C3%A9ni…

Calling all you experts in #paleontologi and #archaeologi Please help me: What I'm dealing with here? Today I cleaned up at the old French vineyard, where in a few days I will be running a writing retreat. And then I came across these pieces of stone, bone and teeth...

Okay, so is it wtσ or wtς? 🤔

@tsoriemi @avzaagzonunaada Thank you 😅

@avzaagzonunaada @2lander Haha, even if the results won’t be published in Ossetic I might keep an eye on this 👀 congrats on the grant!

Very grateful to have received a grant from @VELUXFONDEN for the research project: The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated Project period: 1 Januar 2025 – 31 December 2028. Official announcement (in Danish): veluxfonden.dk/en/node/15935. 1/7