Assoz. Prof. Igor Yanovich, PhD
T: +43-1-4277-42402
Consultation hours: Please write me an email (igor.yanovich@univie.ac.at) to arrange a meeting, on-site or online
Winter term 2026
122210 VO Communication, Code and Culture
122252 AR MA+MEd Advanced Course in Linguistics - Focus: Historical - The Constant Rate hypothesis of grammatical change: theory and application to historical English corpus data
124200 SE PhD Seminar Linguistics - Phonology of English from SPE to base-derivative correspondence
128123 AR Structural Analysis
128301 AR Research methods in linguistics
Summer term 2026
122210 VO Communication, Code and Culture
Winter term 2025
120225 SE MA Seminar - Focus: Historical Linguistics / Linguistics Seminar - The historical development of the English verbal system
122210 VO Communication, Code and Culture
128123 AR Structural Analysis
Lavidas, N., Sitaridou, I., & Yanovich, I. (Eds.) (2025). Towards a Holistic Understanding of Language Contact in the Past. De Gruyter. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Vol. 383 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110989571
Yanovich, I. (2025). Reconstructing the Historical Structure of the Bantu Language Family: Old Challenges, New Insights. Annual Review of Linguistics, 11(1), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031422-114801
Lawson, D. J., Solanki, V., Yanovich, I., Dellert, J., Ruck, D., & Endicott, P. (2021). CLARITY: comparing heterogeneous data using dissimilarity. The Royal Society Open Science, 8(12), Article 202182. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202182
Yanovich, I. (2021). Including explicit priors on phase duration in Bayesian 14C dating: Reevaluating the dates for basal Knossos and for Nea Nikomedeia (Early Aegean Neolithic). Documenta Praehistorica, 48(3), 2-23. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.48.3
Yanovich, I. (2021). Joint modeling of radiocarbon dates from Ulucak V (Anatolian Late Neolithic). Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry. International Journal, 21(1), 273-280. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4606805
Yanovich, I. (2020). Special issue on formal diachronic semantics Introduction. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 65(3), 323-325. https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2020.13
Yanovich, I. (2020). Phylogenetic linguistic evidence and the Dene-Yeniseian homeland. Diachronica: international journal for historical linguistics, 37(3), 410-446. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.17038.yan
Yanovich, I. (2018). The effect of dictionary omissions on phylogenies computationally inferred from lexical data. Language Dynamics and Change, 8(1), 78-107. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00801007
Yanovich, I. (2017). Analyzing imperfective games. Semantics and Pragmatics, 10(17), 1-23. Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.10.17
Yanovich, I. (2016). Old English *motan, variable-force modality, and the presupposition of inevitable actualization. Language, 92(3), 489-521. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2016.0045
Naxos, Cyclades, Aegean: a crash course in the regional prehistory
Yanovich, I. (Speaker)
24 Jul 2025
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Classical vs. computational historical linguistics
Yanovich, I. (Speaker)
23 Jul 2025 → 25 Jul 2025
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 3E-O2-14.A
T: +43-1-4277-42402
