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  Thomas Olander
 
  Research monographs
2015 Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook (Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 14). Leiden & Boston: Brill. [publisher's homepage 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.
2009 Balto-Slavic accentual mobility (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 199). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

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
 
  Dissertations
2014 Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology. Habilitation thesis, University of Copenhagen. [cf. Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook (2015) above] · project homepage
2006 Accentual mobility: The prehistory of the Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms. PhD dissertation, University of Copenhagen. [cf. Balto-Slavic accentual mobility (2009) above] · project homepage
  • 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
2002 Det baltoslaviske problem: accentologien [The Balto-Slavic problem: Accentology]. Prize dissertation, University of Copenhagen. · pdf version
 
  Research articles
forthc. Sprog i tid og tid i sprog [Language in time and time in language]. In Sofie Kluge & Ulla Kallenbach (eds.), Det historiske blik. [Invited; submitted.]
forthc. Linguistic cladistics and words for metals in Indo‐European. [Invited; submitted.]
forthc. Prosody and suprasegmental phonology. [Accepted.]
forthc. Det indoeuropæiske urhjem [The Indo-European homeland]. Studier i Nordisk 2011–2015. [Accepted.]
2019 Indo-European cladistic nomenclature. Indogermanische Forschungen 124. 231–244. doi:10.1515/if-2019-0008
2019 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. [Adaptation and translation of “Det indoeuropæiske urhjem”.]
2019 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.
2019 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
2018 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.
2018 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
2017 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.
2016 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.
2015 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.
2014 Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead & Thomas Olander. Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (*15.03.1944 – †15.05.2013). Kratylos 59. 257–265.
2013 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.
2012 Proto-Indo-European *‑os in Slavic. Russian Linguistics 36(3). 319–341. doi:10.1007/s11185-012-9097-z
2011 Review of [Frederik Kortlandt. 2009. Baltica & Balto-Slavica (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 16). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.] Kratylos 56. 133–138.
2010 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.
2010 Proto-Indo-European final nasals in Slavic. Scando-Slavica 56(1). 84–98.
2010 III. Danish studies: Language and linguistics. The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 70. 723–734.
2009 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.
2007 Once more on desinential accent in Balto-Slavic mobile paradigms: A reply to Kortlandt. Baltu filoloģija 16(1–2). 81–85. · journal issue
2007 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.
2007 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.
2005 The dative plural in Old Latvian and Proto-Indo-European. Indogermanische Forschungen 110. 273–281.
2004 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.
2002 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
 
  Edited volumes
forthc. 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. [Accepted.]
2019 Birgit Anette Olsen, Thomas Olander & Kristian Kristiansen (eds.). Tracing the Indo-Europeans: New evidence from archaeology and historical linguistics. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow.
2019 Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 19. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2017 Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 18. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2017 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.
2017 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.
2017 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

2016 Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 17. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2015 Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 16. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2014 Birgit Anette Olsen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2013 Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2013 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.
2012 Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (executive editor), Michaël Peyrot, Georges-Jean Pinault (eds.) & Thomas Olander (assistant editor). Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 13. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.
2012 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.
2011 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.
2009 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.
2009 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.

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
2009 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.
2004 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.
2003 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
2002 Thomas Olander & Adam Hyllested. Paternoster polyglotta: The Lord's Prayer in 159 different versions. Copenhagen.
2002 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
2002 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
1998 Jens Elmegård Rasmussen & Thomas Olander. Funderinger over indoeuropæisk: et improviseret festskrift til Ingvar Reedtz Funder på 70-årsdagen 19. februar 1998. København.
 
  Popularising articles and blog posts
2019 Side 9-etymologien: Kvikt kvæg og kække kvaj [Page-9 etymology: Smart cattle and brave fools]. Mål og mæle 40(2). 6.
2019 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.
2018 Thomas Olander & Ken Farø. Stavemåder af fremmede stednavne [The spelling of foreign toponyms]. Mål og mæle 39(2). 2–3.
2018 Side 9-etymologien: Vanilje [Page-9 etymology: Vanilje]. Mål og mæle 39(2). 9.
2018 Side 9-etymologien: Pensel og penicillin [Page-9 etymology: Pensel and penicillin]. Mål og mæle 39(1). 6–7.
2018 Where do the Indo-European languages come from? The Homeland: In the footprints of the early Indo-Europeans (blog), 22 June 2018.
2017 Side 9-etymologien: Porcelæn [Page-9 etymology: Porcelæn]. Mål og mæle 38(2). 9.
2016 Russiske efternavne [Russian surnames]. Mål og mæle 37(2). 27–30.
2006 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)
2005 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.
1998 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.