Course: Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

Two alphabets were used to write Old Church Slavonic: the Glagolitic alphabet (created by Cyril and Methodius) and the Cyrillic alphabet. The Glagolitic alphabet soon fell into disuse in favour …

Although the foundation of Indo-European studies had already been established, the discipline didn’t fully come to life until the 19th century. The person usually credited with the beginnings of modern …

In the 17th century, the Dutch scholar Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, who was professor eloquentiae (professor of rhetoric) at Leiden University, tried to explain the similarities between several Indo-European languages …

Our first lesson is about the Indo-European language family. What is a language family? And which languages belong to the Indo-European language family? Watch the video above to find out. …

What to expect? Learning about Comparative Indo-European linguistics is not only fascinating, it can also be quite challenging. The first reason for this is that there are a lot of …

More like this? You can watch the whole interview with prof. Weiss at the end of the course. Michael Weiss is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell …

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