In partial co-ordination with Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen, the research centre Roots of Europe – Language, Culture and Migrations has, for quite some years now, applied modern technology to our teaching and dissemination activities: we have streamedContinue reading Online and blended learning: a powerful tool for spreading knowledge of language history to the non-academic society→

Nedenstående artikel blev bragt 13. februar 2015 i Finlands – og Nordens – største avis, Helsingin Sanomat. Den er her oversat til dansk af artiklens forfatter, Lauri Dammert. Oversættelsen, der er let bearbejdet af Adam Hyllested, bringes med tilladelse fra avisen. Urfinsk lånte ord til germansk og keltisk DeContinue reading Da jætten Koljo rejste rundt i verden→

Sproghistorien kan være fængslende når den åbner døre til tidligere tiders sprogbrug og tankegange. Som når filosoffen Ole Fogh Kirkeby i en samtale med DR P1’s Carsten Ortmann viser hvordan ord som frihed og frænde går tilbage til den sammeContinue reading Eksistens og sproghistorie→

At the research centre Roots of Europe – Language, Culture, and Migrations the majority of scholars dealing with the first of the three branches, language, is concerned mainly with morphology. Within this field of study, focus mainly lies with nominalContinue reading When morphological analysis produces knowledge on ancient societies→

 To stay sound and healthy is obviously one of man’s timeless concerns. Most early societies seem to have believed that diseases could have both natural and supernatural causes. Blame was often heaped upon evil spirits that had entered into theContinue reading Health and illness in Prehistoric Europe: Linguistic evidence of beliefs in preventive care, causes and treatments→

In my dissertation ‘The Proto-Germanic n-stems’, I have presented evidence suggesting that a number of Germanic n-stems retained the root ablaut of the original PIE paradigm. In most cases, this paradigmatic alternation usually is not directly attested, but must nevertheless be reconstructed onContinue reading Sø kom der ein hjasi høppande forbi…→

Den slags sprogforskere, der er ansat på Roots of Europe, beskæftiger sig først og fremmest med rekonstruktion af forhistoriske sprog og sprogudviklinger. Det drejer sig om at genskabe tilstande – nemlig forskellige kronologiske stadier af ikke-overleverede sprog – såvel som begivenhedsforløb,Continue reading Genskabelse af fortidens samfund – ved hjælp af sproget→

Etymology and the European Lexicon 14th Congress of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft University of Copenhagen, 17-22 September 2012       Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 14th Congress (Fachtagung) of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft / Society for Indo-European StudiesContinue reading Call for Papers: Etymology and the European Lexicon→

S.A. Burlak, M.A. Zhivlov and I.B. Itkin have reviewed Jens Elmegård Rasmussen & Thomas Olander (eds.): Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European (2008) in the latest issue of Voprosy jazykoznanija (5, 2010:130-135). I find it positive that the reviewers take the timeContinue reading Long-range shooting with recoil→

In recent years, a tendency has arisen for historical linguists, e.g. scholars specialised in Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics, to join forces with scholars from related fields of research, including general linguistics, archaeology, historical philology, religion, history and natural historyContinue reading Historical linguistics in a broader context→