Courses Regularly Taught
- An Immersive Introduction to Proto-Indo-European
- Introduction to Sanskrit
- Historical Linguistics
- Phonological Analysis
- Writing Systems
- Introduction to the Study of Language
- Introduction to Linguistics
- How to Create Your Own Language
- Words & Sentences
- Computation for Linguists
Other Courses Taught
- The History of English
- Homeric Greek
- Ancient Greek Dialects
- Research Methods in Linguistics
- Optimality Theory
- Classical Armenian
- Oscan & Umbrian
- Hittite
Theses Supervised
Patrick Gehringer MA, UK — “Albanian Nasal Clusters” (05/24)
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Eleanor Wren-Hardin MA, UK — “Cognate Detection in the Nakh-Daghestanian Language Family” (05/24)
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Ryan McDonald MA, UK — “PMKN PIE: A Parsed Morphological KATR Network for Proto-Indo-European.” (11/20)
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Zia Khoshsirat MA, UK — “The Origins of the Gilaki Causative Suffix -bē-.” (07/18)
Phillip Barnett MA, UK — “Investigating PIE stops using modern empirical methods.” (05/18)
Other Advising
Neihal Saini Lexington Summer Youth Program (06/25–07/25)
“Integrating The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World into DERBi PIE.”
Lasantha Senanayake PhD CS — “LLMs and Storytelling Systems” (05/25–)
James Epperson “What the Fuit: Double Marking in Classical Latin Passives.” (05/25)
Casey Smith “Towards Proto-Niger-Congo Phonology: Evidence from Divergent Branches.” (11/24–05/25)
Gabriel Wallace “Reconstructing Semantic Hyperspaces for Ancient and Reconstructed IE Languages.” (05/23–10/24)
Anton Vinogradov (PhD CS) (08/24)
Gihyun Gal (04/23)
Tara Singh (2018–2022)
Jarred Brewster (04/21)
Noor Bueasa (05/15)
Joseph Rhyne (05/14)
“Indo-European Nominal Morphology: a Phonotactic Approach.”
Lindley Winchester (05/14)
Erica Mattingly (05/13)
“Tongues from Across the Mediterranean: The Influence of Classical Arabic on Spanish Phonology.” — Chellgren Fellows Program.