This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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It will come too late to help me on my term paper for Old Latin (due in four hours), but a New Historical Syntax of Latin edited by Philip Baldi and Pierluigi Cuzzolin will be published sometime this year. I was disappointed to see that Baldi’s Foundations of Latin did not deal with syntax, being [...]
Someone made an addition to the Wikipedia article on the Slavonic languages about the ‘recent discovery’ that the Slavs were indigenous to Southern Europe. The citation for the matter was a paper by one Mario Alinei with the rather wordy title Interdisciplinary and linguistic evidence for Palaeolithic continuity of Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic populations in [...]
Thomas Olander, a doctoral candidate at University of Copenhagen, has been exploring the accent of Common Slavonic for several years now. His studies have produced two documents that will be quite interesting to those enamoured with the Slavonic languages. Balto-Slavic Mobile Accent Paradigms: a preliminary summary is a concise explanation of what his studies have [...]
I have added a small section to my LaTeX for Classical Philologists and Indo-Europeanists primer on the typesetting of postulated glottalic stops. Even as late as 2000, Winfred Lehmann (in his Pre-Indo-European) has thought the theory has some viability, so I think that there may be demand for typesetting their representation. Unfortunately, the latex-unicode package [...]