Research

The research centre Roots of Europe – Language, Culture and Migrations (funded by the UCPH Programme of Excellence from 2008 to 2013) serves as a coordinating unit for a range of externally funded research projects that are concerned with the linguistic, cultural and ethnic prehistory of Europe in a cross-disciplinary co-operation between, above all, Indo-European comparative linguistics, , archaeology, comparative mythology and population genetics. Besides providing a framework for research co-operation, the centre coordinates other activities such as contact to external collaborative partners, guest
lectures, conferences and cross-disciplinarily oriented education programmes. Currently,
the following projects are affiliated with the centre:

• The Linguistic Origins of Europe: Word-formation and Lexicon in Anatolian and Core Indo-European (Marie Curie scholarship)

• The Homeland: In the footprints of the early Indo-Europeans (funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation and the department 2015)

• Individual, kin and family in prehistoric Europe - what words can tell (funded by a grant from the Velux Foundation 2013)

• Towards a New European Prehistory (funded by Svenska Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)

• Family Myths: Phraseology and Inherited Indo-European Thematic Structures in Greek Myth (two-year Marie Curie-stipend)

Completed projects:

• The projects Roots of Europe - Language, Culture and Migrations (funded by UCPH's Programme of Excellence (completed)
   
• Individual, kin and family in prehistoric Europe - what words can tell (funded by a grant from the Velux Foundation 2013) (completed)
   
• Postdoctorate Talking Neolithic – recovering the Language of the first European Farmers (Funded by the the Danish Council for Independent Research Sapere (completed)
   
• Aude career programme DFF-Ung Eliteforsker (2012) (completed)