Jorik Groen

Jorik Groen is a PhD Candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Network Institute. His research focuses on Linguistics, particularly Semitic Languages and Biblical Studies, with a specialization in Historical Linguistics and Morphology.

• Education: Cum laude Master's in Linguistics (ResMA) from Leiden University (2015)

His work explores Proto-Semitic language patterns, including suppletion mechanisms, verbal morphology, and broken plural formations. Recent publications analyze irregular verb forms in Semitic languages and phonological developments in ancient Northwest Semitic dialects.

Key research areas include:

• Biblical Hebrew
• Historical Philology
• Language Reconstruction
• Corpus Linguistics
• Semitic Verb Systems
• Textual Analysis

Scientific distinction: cum laude Master's thesis at Leiden University. Currently active in the Ge’ez project morphological encoding, contributing to computational linguistics and digital humanities initiatives.