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Andrew Byrd — Historical Linguistics · Conlangs · Computation

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Positions

    Education

      Current Projects

        Service

        Professional Affiliations & Reviewing

        Selected Publications

        • Z. Khoshsirat and A. M. Byrd. “The Indo-Iranian labial-extended causative suffix: Indic -(ā)páya-, Eastern Iranian *-(ā)u̯ai̯a-, and Proto-Caspian *-āwēn-” Indo-European Linguistics 11: 64–95 (2023). Journal
        • A. Vinogradov, A. M. Byrd, and Brent Harrison. “Mistake Captioning: A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Mistakes And Generating Instructive Feedback.” Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, September 1-3, 2021, 1455-1462 (2021). Teaching
        • A. M. Byrd and B.R. Byrd. “Teaching Proto-Indo-European as a Constructed Language.” Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy, 186–207. (2020). Teaching
        • The Indo-European Syllable. Leiden: Brill (2015).

        Full list: see Research.

        Recent Grants & Awards

          Full list: see Research.

          Teaching

          Regular courses include:

          • An Immersive Introduction to Proto-Indo-European
          • Phonological Analysis
          • How to Create Your Own Language
          • Writing Systems

          Details, past syllabi, and advising: Teaching page.

          Public Engagement

          Work includes language creation and consulting for games and media (e.g., Far Cry Primal; Flintlock: Siege of Dawn), translations/performances in PIE, and media interviews. See the Public Engagement page for a full timeline and links.