Thomas Olander

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	Thomas Olander
	Born 19 April 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark

	Presentation
I am a historical linguist dealing with Indo-European languages. My research has a primary focus on Slavic, but I have a general interest in all ancient and some modern Indo-European languages, and in the reconstruction of the Indo-European proto-language. I am also working with the relationship between Slavic and Baltic and with the phylogenetics of the Indo-European language family in general. Another interest of mine is Danish and general phonology and morphology. In my 2009 book Balto-Slavic accentual mobility I compared the so-called mobile accent paradigms of Baltic and Slavic (e.g. Russian nominative singular golová, accusative gólovu, genitive golový etc.), concluding that they have arisen as the result of an accent loss in final syllables with a certain structure. The main conclusion of the book may be expressed with the formula μ[+H] > [-H] / _C₀#. My 2015 book Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook (based on my habilitation thesis, also from 2015) contains a reconstruction of the inflectional endings of Proto-Slavic and an analysis of their historical relationship with the corresponding endings of Baltic and the remaining Indo-European languages. I am the leader of the research project Connecting the Dots: Reconfiguring the Indo-European family tree (2019–2022), financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The purpose of the project is to examine the relationship between the Indo-European language branches, in particular the ramification after the separation of Anatolian and Tocharian. The project also examines to what extent the linguistic family tree can be correlated with the archaeological evidence.

	Degrees
11/2015	Doctor of Philosophy (Danish dr.phil.) in Indo-European Studies at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, with the habilitation thesis Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook
11/2012	CBS–SIMI Executive Research Management Course
06/2011	Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programme at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (September 2010 – June 2011) · poster on teaching over Skype to a class at Vilnius University
05/2006	PhD in Slavic and Baltic historical linguistics at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, with the dissertation Accentual mobility: the prehistory of the Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms
10/2002	MA (Danish Magister, mag.art.) in Indo-European Studies, University of Copenhagen Subjects: Greek and Italic, Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Albanian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Paper 1 (“Den mobile accent i baltoslavisk” [“The mobile accent in Balto-Slavic”]), Paper 2 (“Om den slaviske neoakut og Dybos og Stangs love” [“On the Slavic neoacute and the laws of Dybo and Stang”])
05/2002	Gold medal for the prize dissertation Det baltoslaviske problem: accentologien [The Balto-Slavic problem: accentology] in Indo-European Studies, University of Copenhagen 2001
06/1999	BA in Indo-European Studies and Bulgarian, University of Copenhagen Subjects: Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics, Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Phonetics, Gothic, Proto-Indo-European Morphology, General and Danish Phonology, Sanskrit, Laryngeal Theory, Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Ablaut, Latin, Greek, Vedic, Language Typology and Language Classification; Bulgarian phonetics, Written Translation Bulgarian-Danish, Bulgarian Grammar; Polish Propaedeutics, Polish Phonetics
6/1994	Graduated from Østre Borgerdydskole (passing the Studentereksamen), Copenhagen, with Greek, Latin, and German as advanced-level subjects

	Positions
02/2019 – 08/2019	External lecturer in Indo-European Studies, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen Historical Grammar of Balto-Slavic (MA level)
01/2019	Academic officer, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
09/2015 – 12/2018	Associate professor (non-tenured) of Indo-European Studies, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen Historical Grammar of Greek (BA level) Historical Grammar of Greek (MA level) Historical Grammar of Baltic (MA level) Indo-European Topics (MA level; four classes) Historical Grammar of Slavic (MA level) Phonetics and Phonology (BA level; three classes) Fundamentals of Linguistic Reconstruction (BA, MA, PhD levels; one class at the Roots of Europe Summer Schools 2015, 2016, 2017) Introduction to the Linguistic history of Danish (BA level; one class 2015, 2016, 2017)
02/2014 – 08/2015	Part-time lecturer of Indo-European Studies, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen Indo-European phonology (BA level; 2014 and 2015) Indo-European morphology (BA level) Historical grammar of Latin (BA level) Historical grammar of Greek (BA level) Historical grammar of Greek (MA level) Historical grammar of Vedic (MA level; supervisor) Balto-Slavic historical grammar (MA level) Indo-European phonology (MA level; course organiser) Indo-European morphology (MA level; course organiser) “Where does our language come from” (Folkeuniversitetet, Copenhagen)
10/2012 – 12/2013	Associate professor (non-tenured) at Roots of Europe, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen · project homepage Slavic historical grammar (BA and MA levels; 2012) Indo-European morphology (MA level; course organiser) Indo-European morphology (BA level; three classes) Phonetics and phonology (BA level; two classes, 2012; three classes, 2013)
10/2008 – 10/2012	Postdoc at Roots of Europe, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen; parental leaves: 7–20 November 2008 and 4 July to 25 September 2009; 6–19 April 2010 and 1 January to 22 March 2011 Phonetics and phonology (BA level; two classes each year: 2009, 2010, 2011) History of the Danish language (BA level; two classes, remote teaching, Vilnius University, 2011) History of the Danish language (MA level; 2010) Greek dialects (BA level; 2009)
10/2006 – 09/2008	Danish lecturer at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · various courses on Danish language, see bottom of teaching section
02/2003 – 03/2006	PhD scholar at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen · project title: “The Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms” History of the Slavic languages (BA and MA levels)
09/2002 – 01/2003	Teaching assistant at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen History of the Greek language (BA level) Sanskrit (introductory course) Phonetics and phonology (BA level)

	Stays abroad
11/2016	Guest researcher at Gothenburg University, Sweden
10/2006 – 09/2008	Danish lecturer at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (passed test in “Bulgarian as a Foreign Language” at level C1)
04/2005 – 06/2005	Research at Humboldt University, Berlin
09/2000 – 07/2001	Studies in Russian, History of the Polish Language, and History of the Czech Language at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia (passed test in “Russian as a Foreign Language” at level 3 (out of 4) in the testing system of the Russian Ministery of Education)
08/1998	Summer course in Slovak for Foreigners (“Studia Academica Slovaca”), elementary level, at the University of Bratislava, Slovakia
08/1997	Summer course in Polish for Foreigners (“Polonicum”), intermediate level, at the University of Warsaw, Poland
02/1997 – 07/1997	Studies in Modern Bulgarian and Old Bulgarian at Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria
09/1991 – 06/1992	Italian 3rd grade at the “Liceo Scientifico Statale ‘Piero Gobetti’”, Florence, Italy
08/1990 – 06/1991	German 10th grade at the “Hildegard-Wegscheider Oberschule” in Wilmersdorf, West Berlin, West Germany

	Organisation of scientific meetings
Sept. 2017	Co-organiser, The Split: Reconstructing Early Indo-European Language and Culture (international conference), University of Copenhagen
Feb. 2017	Organiser, The Indo-European Family Tree (international workshop), University of Copenhagen
July–Aug. 2016	Co-organiser, Roots of Europe Summer School 2016, University of Copenhagen (main organiser: Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead)
July–Aug. 2015	Co-organiser, Roots of Europe Summer School 2015, University of Copenhagen (main organiser: Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead)
2008 – 2015	Co-organiser of lectures and block seminars at the Roots of Europe project, University of Copenhagen
Oct. 2013	Co-organiser, Indo-European Rules (international seminar), University of Copenhagen
Dec. 2012	Co-organiser, Tracing the Indo-Europeans (international conference), University of Copenhagen
Oct. 2012	Co-organiser, Indo-European Words That Matter (international seminar), University of Copenhagen
Sept. 2012	Co-organiser, Etymology and the European Lexicon (international conference), University of Copenhagen
Nov. 2011	Co-organiser, Indo-European Matters Even More (international seminar), University of Copenhagen
April 2011	Co-organiser, Anatolian Spring (international seminar), University of Copenhagen
Oct. 2010	Co-organiser, Indo-European Still Matters (international seminar), University of Copenhagen
Oct. 2009	Co-organiser, Indo-European Matters (international seminar), University of Copenhagen
April 2009	Co-organiser, The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics (international conference), University of Copenhagen
Sept. 2006	Co-organiser, Second International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology, University of Copenhagen

	Miscellaneous
2016–present	Editor, Scando-Slavica
2016–present	Editor, Mål & Mæle
2006–present	Assistant editor, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
2014–present	Series editor, Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European
2015–present	Chairman, Danish Association of Slavists
2009–2015	Vice chairman, Danish Association of Slavists
2012–present	Member, Indogermanische Gesellschaft