This document contains a brief survey of Sanskrit nominal compounds, originally compiled for personal use, later used as a teaching handout.

This article offers a brief synopsis and partial summary of my Ph.D. Dissertation The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification (Cambridge, 2016). This will consist of situating the contribution of the study in its scholarly context (summarising the first chapter of the dissertation),…[Read more]

A new edition, translation and brief commentary on IG IX,2 69 (Athens Epigraphical Museum EM 10300) based on an a autopsy of the stone.

In all attested periods of the Ancient Thessalian dialect there are two mid-long vowels, written as and in the archaic epichoric alphabet and and in the Ionic alphabet. Traditionally the Ionic alphabet spellings have been explained as raised mid-high vowels /eː/ and /oː/. This paper problematizes this assumption, examining evidence from i…[Read more]

In the last decade of the 20th century a new field of language research emerged that has come to be known as ‘language documentation’ or ‘documentary lingusitics’ (Himmelmann 1998, 2002, 2006; Lehmann 2001; Austin 2010; Grenoble 2010; Woodbury 2003, 2011). In this paper we explore how it was defined in the seminal work of Himmelmann (1998) and…[Read more]

One of the main responses of academia to language endangerment has been the development of the sub-field of Language Documentation (LD, also called Documentary Linguistics). Himmelmann (1998: 161) presented its main goal as ‘to provide a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speech community’ Himmelmann (20…[Read more]