Thomas Olander: publications

Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook (Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 14). Leiden & Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004270503 [ publisher's home page for the book ; Google books ; flyer ]
Reviews

• Miguel Villanueva Svensson. 2015. Kratylos 60. 103–111.
• Daniel Petit. 2016. Baltistica 51(1). 169–187. · pdf version
• Iván Igartua Ugarte. 2017. Diachronica 34(1). 110–116.

Balto-Slavic accentual mobility (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 199). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110213355
Reviews

• Rainer Fecht. 2009. Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 66(2). 459–464.
• Ron Kim. 2010. Linguist List 21.1909 (21 April 2010).
• Mixail Oslon. 2010. Вопросы языкознания 2010(2). 141–146.
• Vytautas Rinkevičius. 2010. Baltistica 45(2). 369–379. · pdf version
• Daniel Petit. 2011. Historische Sprachforschung 123. 318–321.
• Harald Bichlmeier. 2013. Das Altertum 58. 75–78.
• Daniel Petit. 2013. Kratylos 58. 151–158.
• David J. Birnbaum. 2013. Scando-Slavica 59(2). 250–255.
• Review-like article : Frederik Kortlandt. 2010. Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited. Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 56. 61–81. (Reprinted in: Frederik Kortlandt. 2010. Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 17), 341–357. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.) · web version

Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology. Habilitation thesis, University of Copenhagen. [cf. Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook (2015) above] · project home page

Accentual mobility: The prehistory of the Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms. PhD dissertation, University of Copenhagen. [cf. Balto-Slavic accentual mobility (2009) above] · project home page

• Review-like article : Frederik Kortlandt. 2006. Balto-Slavic accentual mobility. Baltistica 41(3). 359–369. (Reprinted in: Frederik Kortlandt. 2009. Baltica & Balto-Slavica (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 16), 93–101. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.) · web version

Det baltoslaviske problem: accentologien [ The Balto-Slavic problem: Accentology ]. Prize dissertation, University of Copenhagen. · pdf version

Henning Andersen & Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic. [Invited; submitted.]

Prosody and suprasegmental phonology. In Handbook of Indo-European studies. Oxford University Press. [Accepted.]

A note on the Greek Law of Limitation. Glotta 100. 141–155. doi: doi: 10.13109/glot.2024.100.1.141 [In press.]

Linguistic phylogenetics and words for metals in Indo‐European. In Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen & Eske Willerslev (eds.), The Indo-European puzzle revisited: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics, 93–104. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009261753.011 · book home page

To *b or not to *b: Proto-Indo-European *b in a phylogenetic perspective. Historische Sprachforschung 133. 182–208. doi: 10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.182

Introduction. In Thomas Olander (ed.), The Indo-European language family: A phylogenetic perspective, 1–17. Cambridge, UK, & New York: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108758666.001

The etymological substance of the Italian first- and second-person oblique clitic pronouns. Revue Romane. doi: 10.1075/rro.20030.ola

Sprog i tid og tid i sprog: Et historisk blik på sprog [Language in time and time in language: A historical look at language]. In Ulla Kallenbach, Sofie Kluge & Rasmus Vangshardt (eds.), Det historiske blik, 335–344. Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Det indoeuropæiske urhjem [The Indo-European homeland]. In Seán D. Vrieland, Anne Mette Hansen & Rikke Steenholt Olesen (eds.), Studier i Nordisk 2012–2015, 175–217. København: Selskab for Nordisk Filologi. [Cf. “The Indo-European homeland: Introducing the problem” (2019).]

Indo-European cladistic nomenclature. Indogermanische Forschungen 124. 231–244. doi: 10.1515/if-2019-0008

Birgit Anette Olsen, Thomas Olander & Kristian Kristiansen. Tracing the Indo-Europeans: Introduction. In Birgit Anette Olsen, Thomas Olander & Kristian Kristiansen (eds.), Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics, 1–6. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow.

The Indo-European homeland: Introducing the problem. In Birgit Anette Olsen, Thomas Olander & Kristian Kristiansen (eds.), Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics, 7–34. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow. [Adaptation and translation of “Det indoeuropæiske urhjem” (2020).]

A complicated relationship: Balto-Slavic accentual mobility as a non-trivial shared innovation. In Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Lars Heltoft, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh & Lene Schøsler (eds.), Perspectives on language structure and language change (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 345), 359–380. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/cilt.345.17ola

Connecting the dots: The Indo-European family tree as a heuristic device. In David Goldstein, Stephanie Jamison & Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th UCLA Indo-European Conference, 181–202. Bremen: Hempen.

The dark past of Balto-Slavic prosody: On Jay Jasanoff’s book The prehistory of the Balto-Slavic accent . Lingua 207. 96–106. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2018.02.008

Drinking beer, smoking tobacco and reconstructing prehistory. In Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Guus Kroonen, Jenny Helena Larsson, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Tobias Mosbæk Søborg (eds.), Usque ad radices: Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 8), 605–618. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Review of [Katsiaryna Ackermann. 2014. Die Vorgeschichte des slavischen Aoristsystems: mit der kommen‐ tierten Belegsammlung der Aoristformen und Formen des präteritalen passiven Partizipiums im Altkirchenslavischen (Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 10). Leiden & Boston: Brill.]. Historische Sprachforschung 127(2014). 310–316.

Thomas Olander & Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead. Review of [Ranko Matasović. 2014. Slavic nominal word-formation . Heidelberg: Winter.]. Journal of Indo-European Studies 43(3–4). 544–553.

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead & Thomas Olander. Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (*15.03.1944 – †15.05.2013). Kratylos 59. 257–265.

Indo-European heritage in the Balto-Slavic accentuation system. In Götz Keydana, Paul Widmer & Thomas Olander (eds.). Indo-European accent and ablaut (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 5), 129–147. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Proto-Indo-European * ‑os in Slavic. Russian Linguistics 36(3). 319–341. doi: 10.1007/s11185-012-9097-z

Review of [Frederik Kortlandt. 2009. Baltica & Balto-Slavica (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 16). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.] Kratylos 56. 133–138. doi: 10.29091/KRATYLOS/2011/1/13

Review of [Michiel de Vaan (ed.). 2006 Germanic tone accents: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Franconian Tone Accents, Leiden (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beiheft 131). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.]. Kratylos 54. 83–86. doi: 10.29091/KRATYLOS/2009/1/40

Proto-Indo-European final nasals in Slavic. Scando-Slavica 56(1). 84–98. doi: 10.1080/00806765.2010.483778

III. Danish studies: Language and linguistics. The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 70. 723–734. doi: 10.1163/22224297-90003718

The accentuation of Old Prussian deiws ‘god’. In Thomas Olander & Jenny Helena Larsson (eds.). Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 35), 83–92. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789042032170_009

Once more on desinential accent in Balto-Slavic mobile paradigms: A reply to Kortlandt. Baltu filoloģija 16(1–2). 81–85. · journal issue

The accentuation of Greek monosyllabic words. In Coulter George, Matthew McCullagh, Benedicte Nielsen, Antonia Ruppel & Olga Tribulato (eds.), Greek and Latin from an Indo-European perspective (Cambridge Classical Journal. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, supplementary volume 32), 1–8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms. In Mate Kapović & Ranko Matasović (eds.), Tones and theories: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology, 1–14. Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje.

The dative plural in Old Latvian and Proto-Indo-European. Indogermanische Forschungen 110. 273–281. doi: 10.1515/9783110185164.273 [does not seem to work at doi.org]

The ending-stressed word-forms of the Baltic and Slavic mobile paradigms. In Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson & Thomas Olander (eds.). Per aspera ad asteriscos: Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen sexagenarii Idibus Martiis anno MMIV (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 112), 407–417. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.

Tañgw wm dänqsg radsgrivneñ {Tanker om dansk retskrivning}. In Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson & Thomas Olander. *Bʰr̥ĝʰn̥ti̯áh₂ai, Բարձու, बृहत्ये, Brigti: festskrift til Birgit Anette Olsen på 50-årsdagen den 2. april 2002, 85–88. København: Editiones Olander. · pdf version

The Indo-European language family: A phylogenetic perspective. Cambridge, UK, & New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108758666
Reviews

• Geoffrey Sampson. 2023. Linguist List 34.2768 (https://linguistlist.org/issues/34/2768/; 23 March 2023).
• Daniel Kölligan. 2023. Folia Linguistica Historica 44(1). 317–338. doi:10.1515/flin-2023-2032

Matilde Serangeli & Thomas Olander (eds.). Dispersals and diversification: Linguistic and archaeological perspectives on the early stages of Indo-European (Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 19). Leiden & Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004416192

Birgit Anette Olsen, Thomas Olander & Kristian Kristiansen (eds.). Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow.
Reviews

• Thomas L. Markey. 2020. Journal of Indo-European Studies 48. 251–264.
• Martin Furholt. 2020. Antiquity 94. 539–541. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2020.52
• Christopher Prescott. 2020. Primitive tider 22. 185–188. doi: 10.5617/pt.8407

Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 19 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 18 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Guus Kroonen, Jenny Helena Larsson, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Tobias Mosbæk Søborg). 2017. Usque ad radices: Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 8). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
Review

• Éric Dieu. 2018. Kratylos 63. 87–100.

Adam Hyllested, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen (eds.). Language and prehistory of the Indo-European peoples: A cross-disciplinary perspective (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 7). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
Review

• Xavier Delamarre. 2019. wékʷos 4. 379–385.

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen (eds.). Etymology and the European lexicon: Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, 17–22 September 2012, Copenhagen. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
Review

• Nicholas Zair. 2018. Linguist List 29.454 (26 January 2018).

Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 17 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 16 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Götz Keydana, Paul Widmer & Thomas Olander (eds.). Indo-European accent and ablaut (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 5). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
Review

• Harald Bichlmeier. 2014. Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 61. 258–261.

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 13. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Birgit Anette Olsen & Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (eds.). The sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 4). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
Reviews

• Aurelijus Vijūnas. 2013. Kratylos 58. 85–99.
• Miguel Villanueva Svensson. 2013. Baltistica 48(2). 337–342.
• Dagmar S. Wodtko. 2013. Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 60. 330–332.

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (executive editor), Thomas Olander, Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault, Klaus T. Schmidt & Werner Winter & (eds.). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 12 . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Georges-Jean Pinault, Klaus T. Schmidt, Werner Winter (eds.), Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (executive editor) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 11. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.

Thomas Olander & Jenny Helena Larsson (eds.). Stressing the past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic accentology (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 35). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. doi: 10.1163/9789042032170
Reviews

• David J. Birnbaum. 2010. Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes 52(3/4). 463–465.
• Ronald F. Feldstein. 2011. The Slavic and East European Journal 55(2). 330–332

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen & Thomas Olander. Internal reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, results, and problems. Section papers from the XVI International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, 11th–15th August, 2003 (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European 3). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
Reviews

• Joseph F. Eska. 2011. eLanguage (4 April 2011).
• S. A. Burlak, M. A. Živlov & I. B. Itkin. 2010. Вопросы языкознания 2010(5). 130–135.
• Georges-Jean Pinault. 2009. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 104(2). 130–137.

Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Jenny Helena Larsson & Thomas Olander. Per aspera ad asteriscos: Studia Indogermanica in honorem Jens Elmegård Rasmussen sexagenarii Idibus Martiis anno MMIV (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 112). Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.
Review

• Elizabeth Tucker. 2007. Kratylos 52. 21–27.

Adam Hyllested & Anders Richardt Jørgensen & Thomas Olander. esse sīran sen labban quāitin: Festschrift for Jenny Helena Larsson on the occasion of her 30th birthday 18 October 2003. Copenhagen. · pdf version

Thomas Olander & Adam Hyllested. Paternoster polyglotta: The Lord's Prayer in 159 different versions. Copenhagen.

Adam Hyllested, Jenny Helena Larsson & Thomas Olander (eds.). Nid oedd fas i gywyddaid: Festskrift til Anders Richardt Jørgensen på 25-årsdagen den 5. juli 2002 . København. · pdf version

Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen & Jenny Helena Larsson & Thomas Olander. *Bʰr̥ĝʰn̥ti̯áh₂ai̯, Բարձու, बृहत्ये, Brigti: Festskrift til Birgit Anette Olsen på 50-årsdagen den 2. april 2002. København. · pdf version

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen & Thomas Olander. Funderinger over indoeuropæisk: et improviseret festskrift til Ingvar Reedtz Funder på 70-årsdagen 19. februar 1998. København.

Vi mangler ord: Danskvin [We’re lacking words: Danskvin]. Mål og Mæle 44(3). 9–10. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Held og lykke? [Page-9 etymology: Held and lykke]. Mål og Mæle 44(2). 6–7. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Hvaffornen? [Page-9 etymology: Hvaffornen?]. Mål og Mæle 44(1). 9–10. · pdf version

Olga Olander & Thomas Olander. Cykelist [Cykelist]. Mål og Mæle 43(3). 7. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Bravo! [Page-9 etymology: Bravo!]. Mål og Mæle 43(3). 9. · pdf version

Gabende sult [Yawning hunger]. Mål og Mæle 43(2). 17–18. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: En lugt af loft i luften [Page-9 etymology: A smell of attic in the air]. Mål og Mæle 43(2). 9–10. · pdf version

Johnny G. G. Jakobsen & Thomas Olander. Fra Kiev og Kijev til Kyjiv og Kyiv . Nyt om navne (blog), 3 March 2022.

Er ironisk ironisk, thrakisk tragisk, komi(sk) komisk og lesbisk lesbisk? [Is Iron ironic, Thracian tragical, Komi comical and Lesbian Lesbian?]. Mål og Mæle 42(3). 20–21. · pdf version

Mere om konsonantgrupper [More on consonant clusters]. Mål og Mæle 42(2). 8. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Kujon [Page-9 etymology: Kujon]. Mål og Mæle 42(2). 9. · pdf version

Folketaksonomi: Myolingvistiske betragtninger [Folk taxonomy: Myolinguistic thoughts]. Mål og Mæle 42(1). 5–7. · pdf version

Springskts : Ny danmarksrekord i kategorien “ord med flest konsonanter pr. vokal”? [ Springskts : New Danish record in the category “word with highest number of consonants per vowel”?]. Mål og Mæle 41(1). 30–31. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Kalkun [Page-9 etymology: Kalkun ]. Mål og Mæle 41(3). 9. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Krabat [Page-9 etymology: Krabat ]. Mål og Mæle 41(2). 9. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Krukker og hoveder [Page-9 etymology: Pots and heads]. Mål og Mæle 41(1). 9. · pdf version

Henning Andersen & Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic: Text sample. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi:10.5446/49453

Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic: Morphology, Part 3. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi:10.5446/49457

Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic: Morphology, Part 2. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi:10.5446/49458

Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic: Morphology, Part 1. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi:10.5446/49452

Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic: Introduction, Part 2. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi:10.5446/49461

Henning Andersen & Thomas Olander. Old Church Slavonic: Introduction, Part 1. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. doi:10.5446/49462

Side 9-etymologien: Orkide [Page-9 etymology: Orkide ]. Mål og Mæle 40(3). 9. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Kvikt kvæg og kække kvaj [Page-9 etymology: Smart cattle and brave fools]. Mål og Mæle 40(2). 6. · pdf version

Retskrivningsreformen: interview med den nye direktør for Dansk Sprognævn [The spelling reform: interview with the new director the Danish Language Counsil]. Lingoblog (blog), 1 April 2019.

Side 9-etymologien: Vanilje [Page-9 etymology: Vanilje ]. Mål og Mæle 39(2). 9. · pdf version

Side 9-etymologien: Pensel og penicillin [Page-9 etymology: Pensel and penicillin ]. Mål og Mæle 39(1). 6–7. · pdf version

Where do the Indo-European languages come from? The Homeland: In the footprints of the early Indo-Europeans (blog), 22 June 2018.

Side 9-etymologien: Porcelæn [Page-9 etymology: Porcelæn ]. Mål og Mæle 38(2). 9. · pdf version

Russiske efternavne [Russian surnames]. Mål og Mæle 37(2). 27–30. · pdf version

Articles and updates in Den Store Danske :

• Armenien (sprog) (update)
• Birnbaum, Henrik (article)
• Dybo, Vladimir Antonovitj (update)
• Hirt, Hermann (article)
• Illitj-Svitytj, Vladislav Markovitj (article)
• Krahe, Hans (article)
• Baltoslaviske sprog (article)
• Kirkeslavisk (update)

Fra Jugoslavien til Vladivostok: retningsbetegnelser i slaviske sprog [From Yugoslavia to Vladivostok: Terms for directions in Slavic languages]. Mål og Mæle 28(2). 25–28. · pdf version

Slavisk accent: en syntese [Slavic accent: A synthesis]. In Jens Elmegård Rasmussen & Thomas Olander (eds.). Funderinger over indoeuropæisk: et improviseret festskrift til Ingvar Reedtz Funder på 70-årsdagen 19. februar 1998, 99–110. København.