How do we know what ancient Egyptian sounded like, or Old English? Linguistics gives us the tools to reconstruct lost languages from the words we speak today. Here’s how it’s done. The most important ...

Historical, comparative and typological linguistics collectively constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour aimed at reconstructing language histories, excavating systematic patterns across diverse ...

Research areas: Indo-European linguistics, reconstruction of Indo-European nominal and verbal morphology, nominal compounding, Indo-Iranian nominal and verbal morphology, reflexivity in the ...

The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces back to a common ancestor with Scots, which traces back to a ...

An international team of researchers has set out a proposal for new guidelines on cross-linguistic data formats, in order to facilitate sharing and data comparisons between the growing number of large ...

PhD in Linguistic Anthropology with a minor in Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2018 Jessica Fae Nelson is a linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on community-based language revitalization, ...

Most people are interested in language change. Some of us may be interested in the origins of a particular word. For example, we may want to know why we use pig for the living creature, but instead ...

Henry Max Hoenigswald, historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist: born Breslau, Germany 17 April 1915; Professor of Lingustics, University of Pennsylvania 1948-85 (Emeritus); married 1944 Gabriele ...

Jessica Fae Nelson is a linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on community-based language revitalization, indigeneity, and language and social meaning. Her research interests also include ...