The Indo-European Language Family

Thomas Olander is Associate Professor in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility (2009) and Proto-Slavic Inflectional Morphology (2015), and has edited several books on Indo-European linguistics and the linguistics–archaeology interface.

• 1. Introduction Thomas Olander; 2. Methodology in linguistic subgrouping James Clackson; 3. Computational approaches to linguistic chronology and subgrouping Dariusz Piwowarczyk; 4. What we can (and can't) learn from computational cladistics Don Ringe; 5. Anatolian Alwin Kloekhorst; 6. Tocharian Michaël Peyrot; 7. Italo-Celtic Michael Weiss; 8. Italic Michael Weiss; 9. Celtic Anders Richardt Jørgensen; 10. Germanic Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen & Guus Jan Kroonen; 11. Greek Lucien van Beek; 12. Armenian Birgit Anette Olsen & Rasmus Thorsø; 13. Albanian Adam Hyllested & Brian D. Joseph; 14. Indo-Iranian Martin Joachim Kümmel; 15. Balto-Slavic Tijmen Pronk.

'The volume presents a very useful discussion of the methodology of linguistic subgrouping, methods of computational cladistics and the features allowing the establishment of the individual subbranches of Indo-European and speaking for or against possible higher intermediate nodes.' Daniel Kölligan, Folia Linguistica