Teaching

Courses · Theses Supervised · Advising

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)
Eleanor Wren-Hardin MA, UK — “Cognate Detection in the Nakh-Daghestanian Language Family” (05/24)
Ryan McDonald MA, UK — “PMKN PIE: A Parsed Morphological KATR Network for Proto-Indo-European.” (11/20)
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.