Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

In collaboration with Harvard University’s ancient DNA lab, the team has filled a gap in the Indo-European linguistic record that has puzzled scientists and historians for centuries in a new study ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

My research focuses on three primary areas: Indo-European linguistics (especially syntax), Oceanic linguistics (especially Micronesian), and general diachronic phonology/syntax (and their interface).

Anatolian languages, including Hittite, are the oldest branch of the Indo-European tongues to split away, uniquely preserving some of the linguistic archaisms lost in all other branches.

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family ... uniquely preserving linguistic archaisms that were lost in all other IE branches. Previous studies had not found steppe ancestry ...