Publications

Manuscripts/Forthcoming

All these handbook articles take forever to appear.

• Between states and events: The diachrony of Ancient Greek denominal verbs in –eúō. With Carolina Marescotti. Under review.
• Accent and zero grade in Vedic Sanskrit verbal morphophonology: Evidence for cyclicity. With Andrea Calabrese. Under revision.
• The diachrony of iterativity: Evidence from Germanic –(e)r-verbs. With Martina Werner, Paige Anderson, and Dorothea Sichrovsky. Under review.
• All eyes on Old Avestan xšǝ̄ṇtā. Forthcoming in An-tu-uh-ši. Gedenkschrift in memoriam Heiner Eichner, ed. by Melanie Malzahn, Hannes Fellner, Laura Grestenberger & Stefan Höfler. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
• Relative chronology and morphosyntactic change. With Hannes Fellner. Forthcoming in Relative chronology and historical linguistics, ed. by Florian Wandl, Thomas Olander, and Johan-Mattis List. Berlin: Language Science Press.
• Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European and beyond. Volume edited with Viktoria Reiter and Melanie Malzahn. Berlin: Language Science Press. Forthcoming.
• Historical linguistics. Chapter 8 of Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches, eds. John W. Schwieter & Joyce Bruhn de Garavito. Cambridge University Press.
  • A revised version of this chapter, a historical linguistics intro aimed at anglophone undergraduate students. A few errors and typos have been corrected, including in the exercises.
• Distributed Morphology and historical linguistics. With Andrea Calabrese. Handbook article for the Cambridge Handbook of Distributed Morphology. Accepted.
• Voice alternations in diachrony. With Iris Kamil. To appear in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics, eds. Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É Kiss, Joseph Salmons & Alexandra Simonenko. Accepted.
• Reflexivity and the middle in Greek. To appear in The Mouton Handbooks in Indo-European Typology: Reflexivity and the Middle, ed. by Wolfgang Hock, Götz Keydana & Paul Widmer. Mouton de Gruyter. Accepted.

2024

• Sound change and analogy, again: Brugmann’s Law and the hunt for o-grades in Indo-Iranian. Transactions of the Philological Society 122(1): 79-118. Preprint.

2023

• Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains, ed. with Stela Manova and Katharina Korecky-Kröll. Berlin: de Gruyter (TiLSM 380), 2023.
  • Review in Baltistica
• Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains. With Stela Manova and Katharina Korecky-Kröll. In Diminutives across Languages, Theoretical Frameworks and Linguistic Domains, 1-33. Berlin: de Gruyter (TiLSM 230), 2023. Preprint.
• The diachrony of verbalizers in Indo-European: Where does v come from? Journal of Historical Syntax 7(6-19), 2023, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2023.v7i6-19.156
• Deponency. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, eds. Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulalia Bonet & Antonio Fábregas. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Pre-publication ms.

2022

• To v or not to v? Theme vowels, verbalizers, and the structure of the Ancient Greek verb. Glossa 47(1), 2022. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8597.
• Directionality in cross-categorial derivations. With Itamar Kastner. Glossa 2022/7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8710.
• Ved. -anta, Gk. -οντο, and the thematic aorist in Vedic and Greek. In शब्दानुगमः. Indian linguistic studies in honor of George Cardona, vol. II: Historical linguistics, Vedic, etc., ed. Peter M. Scharf, 99-126. The Sanskrit Library.
• Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale, ed. with Charles Reiss, Hannes A. Fellner & Gabriel Z. Pantillon. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  • Review in the Journal of Historical Syntax
• Periphrastic perfects in Greek and Sanskrit. In Ha! Linguistics Studies in Honor of Mark R.
  Hale, eds. Laura Grestenberger, Charles Reiss, Hannes A. Fellner & Gabriel Z. Pantillon, 93–116. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

2021

• Two types of passive? Voice morphology and “low passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. In Passives cross-linguistically, eds. K. Grohmann, E.-M. Remberger & A. Matsuya, 210–245. Leiden: Brill. (Pre-publication ms.)
• The ín-group: Indo-Iranian ín-stems and their Indo-European relatives. In lyuke wmer ra: Indo-European Studies in Honor of Georges-Jean Pinault, eds. Hannes A. Fellner, Melanie Malzahn & Michaël Peyrot, 164–182. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave. (Pre-publication ms.)
• Historical linguistics. Chapter 8 of Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches, eds. John W. Schwieter & Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, 289–324. Cambridge University Press.
  • A historical linguistics intro chapter aimed at anglophone undergraduate students. Teaching your students about language change without using the words “simplify” or “simplification” has never been easier!

2020

• The diachrony of participles in the (pre)history of Greek and Hittite: Losing and gaining functional structure. Diachronica 37/2: 215–263. (Pre-publication ms.)
• Review of Lowe, John J., Transitive nouns and adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan, Oxford University Press 2017. Kratylos 65: 163–85.

2019

• The largesse of diminutives: suppressing the projection of roots. With Dalina Kallulli. In M. Baird & J. Pesetsky (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 49, Cornell University, Oct. 5-7, 2018, vol. 2, 71–84. Amherst: GLSA.
• On Hittite iškallāri and the PIE “stative”. In Catt et al. (eds.), QAZZU warrai: Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Kazuhiko Yoshida, 91–105. Beech Stave Press.
• Review of Lowe, John J., Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: the syntax and semantics of adjectival verb forms, Oxford University Press 2015. Kratylos 64/1: 141–62.
• Deponency in morphology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Linguistics. Oxford University Press, Sept. 2019. Pre-publication manuscript

2018

• Deponency in finite and nonfinite contexts. Language 94/3: 487-526. Pre-publication manuscript
• Review of Walkden, George: Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic. Kratylos 63: 112-125.
•  Die Reflexe der *nt- und *mh1no-Partizipien im Hethitischen und Tocharischen (“the reflexes of the *nt– and *mh1no-participles in Hittite and Tocharian”). With Hannes A. Fellner.  In E. Rieken (ed.), 100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen — Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und Forschung. Akten der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 23. September 2015 in Marburg, 63-82. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

2017

• On the syntax of the participles of Indo-European deponent verbs. In C. Le Feuvre, D. Petit & G.-J. Pinault (eds.), Verbal adjectives and participles in Indo-European languages, 105-117. Bremen: Hempen.
• On “i-substantivizations” in Vedic compounds. In Hansen et al. (eds.), Usque ad radices. Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen, 193–206. Museum Tusculanum, 2017.

2016

• Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European deponents. Indo-European Linguistics 4/1: 98–149.
• Greek and Latin verbal governing compounds in *-ā- and their prehistory. With Hannes A. Fellner. In Etymology and the European Lexicon. Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17–22 September 2012, Copenhagen, eds. B. S. S. Hansen, B. Nielsen Whitehead, T. Olander, and B. A. Olsen, 135–50. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2016.
• More span-conditioned allomorphy: Voice morphology in Classical Greek. In  Proceedings of NELS 46, eds. C. Hammerly and B. Prickett, vol. 2, 1-10. Amherst: GLSA.

2015

• Number marking in German measure phrases and the structure of pseudo-partitives. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 18/2: 93–138. Pre-publication manuscript
• From inalienable possession to reflexivity: The development of Vedic tanū- ‘body’. Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 30, 2015. Pp. 25-44.

2014

• “Split Deponency” in Proto-Indo-European, in Proceedings of the 25th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, eds. S. W. Jamison, H. C. Melchert, and B. Vine, 75-84. Bremen: Hempen, 2014.
• Zur Funktion des Nominalsuffixes *-i- im Vedischen und Urindogermanischen (“On the function of the nominal suffix *-i– in Vedic and Proto-Indo-European”), in: Das Nomen im Indogermanischen: Morphologie, Substantiv versus Adjektiv, Kollektivum. Akten der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 14. bis 16. September 2011 in Erlangen, eds. N. Oettinger & T. Steer, 88-102. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014.

2013

• The Indo-Iranian cákri-type. Journal of the American Oriental Society 133.2: 269-93.