About the Author

Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead is associate professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. Her research primarily deals with historical morphology, in particular nominal word formation and composition, focusing especially on Old Indic and Latin languages. Thomas Olander, PhD, DPhil, is an associate professor of Indo-European Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: A comparative handbook (2015) and Balto-Slavic accentual mobility (2009). Birgit Anette Olsen is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, and previously leader of the five-year University of Copenhagen excellence programme Roots of Europe (20082013). She has published in particular about the Classical Armenian language and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages.