Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen)

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Current research

Following the Velux project Individual, kin and family in prehistoric Europe - what words can tell (2013-16), my primary research field at present is the interface between language and culture where I am particularly occupied with the Indo-European social structure as reflected in the vocabulary.

I am also working on a monograph on Indo-European word formation, and contiously I write articles on Indo-European linguistics, most lately on Greek and Latin historical morphology and on Armenian phonology.

Primary fields of research

While I take a broad interest in Indo-European language and culture in general, the following areas are particularly important in my previous and current research:

• Indo-European morphology, especially nominal word formation
• Indo-European morphophonemics and phonemics, especially the laryngeal theory and consonantal alternations
• Indo-European lexicon and palaeolinguistics, e.g. with respect to kinship terms and social institutions
• Classical Armenian phonology, morphology and etymology
  
  

Teaching

Through the years I have taught a variety of subjects within Indo-European studies:

• Historical linguistics
• Introduction to Indo-European studies
• Introduction to linguistics - historical part
• Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
• Indo-European phonology
• Indo-European morphology
• Indo-European word formation
• Indo-European vocabulary
• Laryngeal theory
• Seminars on recent literature
• Roots of Europe
• Indo-Iranian, Sanskrit, Vedic, Avestan and Old Persian
• Greek
• Latin and Italic
• Gothic and panorama of ancient Germanic languages
• Old Irish
• Armenian
• Anatolian

Additionally, I have taught propaedeutic Greek and Latin and ancient literature.

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Supervision

I am happy to supervise all subjects within Indo-European language and culture: phonology, morphophonemics, morphology, lexicon and archaeolinguistics. Moreover, subjects dealing with specific branches, with particular pleasure within Armenian, Indo-Iranian, Greek and Italic.