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Lindsay J. WhaleyView profile

Professor

• Linguistics
• Endangered Languages
• Language Typology
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Lindsay J. Whaley is a Professor of Classics and Linguistics at Dartmouth College, affiliated with the Department of Classics. Her work focuses on endangered languages, language typology, Tungusic and Greek linguistics, and Indo-European studies. She holds a B.A. from Calvin College and M.A./Ph.D. degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research explores intersections of language, environment, and colonial history. Notable projects include analyzing environmental impacts on Alaska Native languages and examining colonial legacies in U.S. toponymy. She co-edited volumes on Tungusic linguistics and European/North Asian language diversity. Teaching responsibilities include introductory linguistics, syntax, language typology, and Greek language courses. Current projects involve investigating language-land-environment relationships. Active in academic publishing and editorial work, she maintains an interdisciplinary focus bridging linguistics with environmental and historical studies.

• Linguistics
• Language Evolution
• Phylogenetic Methods
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Olena Shcherbakova is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her work focuses on phylogenetic methods, spatiophylogenetic modeling, and causal inference to study large-scale patterns in language evolution and typological variation. She holds a BA and MA in Philology from the National Technical University of Ukraine (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) and completed an exchange program at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her research explores grammatical complexity dynamics, sociolinguistic influences on language structure, and the evolutionary pathways of gender systems. Key findings include evidence that grammatical complexity (fusion and informativity) is primarily inherited rather than adapting to sociolinguistic changes, and that societies of strangers do not correlate with simpler languages. She has contributed to cross-linguistic studies on argument structure signaling and collaborated on global analyses comparing music and speech acoustics. Shcherbakova's methods include computational phylogenetics, spatiotemporal modeling, and comparative approaches across language families like Austronesian, Bantu, and Indo-European. She co-developed the CHIELD database for tracking causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics and has published in journals such as Science Advances , Journal of Language Evolution , and Scientific Reports .

• Historical Linguistics
• General Linguistics
• Latin Linguistics
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Elisabetta Magni is a Full Professor at the University of Bologna's Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, specializing in Historical and General Linguistics. Her research focuses on language change, morphological systems, and Indo-European languages, particularly Latin and Greek. She has contributed to studies on syntactic structures, grammaticalization processes, and the diachronic evolution of linguistic forms. Recent work includes analyses of the optative mood in New Testament Greek, Latin apposition constructions, and the development of general extenders from Latin to Italian. Her teaching activities include courses on general linguistics and language history, supported by resources such as etymological maps and videos on writing systems. She oversees projects like the E-LOCAL app for language and culture learning, emphasizing innovative pedagogy. Office hours are held via Teams and in-person at the LILEC Department. Her publications span over three decades, addressing topics ranging from Latin syntax and Greek morphology to sociolinguistic aspects of language change. Collaborative works include co-editing Universals of Language Today (2009) and contributing to international journals like Journal of Latin Linguistics . She actively participates in academic networks, promoting interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic studies.

Dag Trygve Truslew HaugView profile

Professor

• Linguistics
• Syntactic Theory
• Formal Semantics
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Dag Trygve Truslew Haug is a Professor of Linguistics and Greek/Latin at the University of Oslo , specializing in syntactic theory, formal semantics, and Indo-European studies. His career spans roles such as Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Oslo and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

• Linguistics
• Romanistics
• Phonetics and Phonology
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Snezana Guduric is a Full Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Romance Studies. Her work spans linguistics, phonetics, and contrastive studies of French and Serbian languages. She has led significant projects and authored numerous publications. Education: Master of Linguistics (1989), Doctor of Linguistics (1997) Research Interests: Focus on phonetics, phonology, syntax, and cultural interactions in language. She explores vowel systems, contrastive grammar, and lexical borrowings. Publications Trends: Recent works include computational linguistics (AI in translation), phonological contrasts in Romance languages, and historical linguistics in the Balkans. A notable chapter (2024) examines AI's role in poetry translation. Scientific Awards: Pavle Ivić Award (2010) for Serbian phonology research Golden Franco-Romance Award (2021) for promoting French culture Grants & Projects: Current member of the international project DIDAFE (2023-2026). Previously led national projects on language contact and bilaterals with Slovenia. Editorial roles include co-editing thematic collections on linguistics.

• Early Modern Greek
• Language Contact and Change
• Language Policy
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Eleni Karantzola is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Mediterranean Studies (Archaeology, Linguistics, International Relations) at the University of the Aegean, part of the School of Humanities. She has held leadership roles including President of the Department (2010–2012), Director of the Southeast Mediterranean Linguistics Laboratory (since 2008), and Secretary General of Lifelong Learning at the Ministry of Education (2012–2013). Her research focuses on Early Modern Greek (16th–17th centuries), language contact, writing systems, language policy, and adult education. Education: Bachelor’s in Philology and Linguistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Postgraduate studies in Sociology of Communication (Paris VII) and Speech Sciences (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) PhD with a three-year Onassis Foundation scholarship Her work bridges historical linguistics and sociopolitical contexts, emphasizing language standardization, literacy networks, and multilingual education. She has coordinated curriculum committees, managed e-learning initiatives, and led collaborative projects like the UNESCO-supported Literacy Network and study groups on Early Modern Greek. She contributed to national and EU programs (EPEAEK, NSRF, Reprise, Modeval) addressing language education and policy. Her publications span monographs, edited volumes (e.g., Language – Education – Society series), and journals like Journal of Pragmatics and Journal of Greek Linguistics , focusing on language change, sociolinguistic factors, and educational policies.

• Dialectology
• Comparative Linguistics
• Russian Language
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Anastasiia Ryko is an Associate Professor of Russian Language at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, affiliated with the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures. Her career includes roles as an Associate Professor at Saint-Petersburg State University (2018–2020) and prior teaching/research posts in Russia and Estonia. She holds a Doctorate in Linguistics (1999) from the Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS, focusing on Indo-European verbal conjugation in Northwest Russian dialects. Her research centers on Russian dialectology, sociolinguistics, and Slavic language studies. Key interests include border dialects (e.g., Russian-Belarusian), Old Believers’ language preservation, historical linguistics, and corpus development. She led projects like creating content for a bilingual website on Old Believers’ language/culture (2024) and analyzing the Khislavichi dialect’s genitive case usage. Recent publications explore dialect variation, language contact, and sociolinguistic aspects of speech corpora. Ryko has contributed to interdisciplinary studies linking language to culture and history. She actively collaborates on digital initiatives documenting endangered dialects and has participated in international conferences on Slavic linguistics. Her work emphasizes fieldwork, archival research, and computational methods in linguistic analysis.

• Historical Linguistics
• Comparative Linguistics
• Language Typology
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Agnes Korn is a linguist affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Center for Research on the Iranian World (CeRMI). Her work spans historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, and typology, with a focus on Iranian languages, particularly Baluchi and Bashkardi. PhD in Comparative Linguistics (Indo-European Studies), Frankfurt am Main (2003) HDR (Habilitation) in Comparative Linguistics, Frankfurt am Main (2010) Master’s in Indo-European Studies, University of Vienna (1996) Her research explores the historical grammar of Persian, dialectological variation in Western Iran, and the documentation of minority Iranian languages. She has supervised theses through INALCO and contributed to projects on Bashkardi and Balochi dialects. Recent publications examine word order in Bashkardi (2025), grammaticalization in Iranian (2020), and isoglosses in Iranian classification (2019). She has received awards for excellence in Iranian studies and research cooperation. European Award of Iranian Studies (2007) Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (2008) Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall and Jesus College, Cambridge (2015)

Brigitte BauerView profile

Professor

• Comparative (Indo-European) Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Diachronic Linguistics
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Brigitte Bauer is a distinguished Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on Comparative (Indo-European) Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, and the Evolution of Latin-Romance languages. She serves as a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and has held affiliations with Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and the Linguistics Research Center at UT Austin. Her career spans over three decades, including roles as a University Lecturer at Radboud University Nijmegen and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

• Historical Linguistics
• Celtic Languages and Culture
• Language Change
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Dr. Aaron Griffith is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication within Utrecht University , specializing in Celtic and Classics . His research focuses on Historical Linguistics , Language Change , and the Celtic Languages and Culture , particularly during the Early and High Middle Ages . He is also involved in academic programs such as Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Linguistics . Expertise Areas : Historical Linguistics, Celtic Languages and Culture, Language Change, Early and High Middle Ages Research Trends : Dr. Griffith's work spans Old Irish syntax, morphology, and manuscript analysis, with a focus on Celtic language evolution , textual criticism of the Milan Glosses and St. Gall Glosses , and diachronic typology . He has contributed to digital resources like glottothèque for Ancient Indo-European grammars. Secondary Activities : He serves as Secretary and Treasurer of the Societas Celtologica Europaea . His contact details include the email a.griffith@uu.nl and office Transcomplex Trans 10 , Room 3.01A, Utrecht.

Ian HollenbaughView profile

Assistant Professor

• Indo-European Linguistics
• Homeric Greek
• Old Latin
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Ian Hollenbaugh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Washington University, cross-appointed in Linguistics. His research focuses on tense/aspect systems in Indo-European languages, combining diachronic and synchronic approaches. Current projects include digital corpora of the Rigveda and Iliad with morphological/semantic tags, as well as a monograph on the Indo-European verb. Education: PhD in Classics, UCLA Research interests span Indo-European linguistics, Homeric Greek, Old Latin, Vedic Sanskrit, and Germanic languages. Recent work examines Greek imperfect tense structures and Sanskrit prohibitive constructions, published in journals like Journal of Greek Linguistics and Journal of the American Oriental Society . Awards: 2024 CAS Early Career Excellence Award (Western Michigan University), 2024 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship His work bridges computational methods with traditional philology, emphasizing cross-linguistic comparisons. No grants or advising roles explicitly listed in available data.

Rudolf WachterView profile

Associate Professor

• Epigraphy
• Historical Linguistics
• Greek Language
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Rudolf Wachter is an emeritus scholar with dual academic affiliations at the University of Basel and the University of Lausanne. He held the position of Professor Extraordinary of Greek, Latin, and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Basel (1997–2020) and Professeur Associé (Associate Professor) of Indo-European Historical Linguistics at the University of Lausanne (2006–2020), both part-time roles. His research focuses on epigraphy, historical linguistics, and the history of writing systems, particularly Greek, Latin, and Indo-European languages. Doctorate (Dr. Phil., 1987): University of Zürich, thesis: Altlateinische Inschriften Second doctorate (D. Phil., 1991): University of Oxford, thesis: Non-Attic Greek Vase Inscriptions Research interests include the analysis of ancient inscriptions, historical linguistics, and the origins of alphabets. He has led projects such as the Attic Vase Inscriptions database. Awards include election to the Academy of Europe (2007) and a Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship. Teaching experience spans institutions like University of Fribourg, Zürich, Heidelberg, and guest professorships in Mainz and Paris. Post-retirement, he focuses on local historical projects in the Swiss Alps.

Steven KayeView profile

Research Fellow

• Language documentation and description
• Nakh-Daghestanian linguistics
• Morphosyntactic typology
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Steven Kaye is a Research Fellow in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey, affiliated with the Surrey Morphology Group. His work focuses on understudied Caucasian languages, particularly within the Nakh-Daghestanian family. He holds a DPhil (2015) and MPhil (2009) in Linguistics from the University of Oxford, alongside a BA (Hons) in Classics and Modern Languages (2006). His research explores morphosyntactic typology, language documentation, and Indo-European comparative linguistics. Current projects include AHRC-funded 'External Agreement' investigating syntactic structures in Northern Caucasus languages and prior ANR-funded work on Northern Talyshi. He has conducted fieldwork in Zilo, Russia, and contributed to linguistic databases. Publications emphasize agreement systems in Andi and historical analyses of Caucasian linguistic works. His work bridges field-based research with theoretical linguistics, contributing to broader understanding of global language structures.

Andreas WilliView profile

Professor

• Ancient Greek Linguistics
• Indo-European Linguistics
• Classical Literature
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Professor Andreas Willi is the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford, holding a dual affiliation between the Faculty of Classics and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. He is also a Fellow of Worcester College and a member of the British Academy (elected 2020). His research focuses on sociolinguistic variation in Ancient Greek, language contact, and the prehistory of the Greek verbal system, with additional expertise in Indo-European linguistics and Classical literature. Willi earned his doctorate at Oxford and has held academic positions at the University of Basel and the Swiss Institute in Rome before returning to Oxford in 2005. Willi’s educational background includes studies in Classics, Slavonic languages, and Historical-Comparative Linguistics at the Universities of Basel, Lausanne, Fribourg (Switzerland), and the University of Michigan. He is an active editor of Glotta: Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache and has authored monographs on Ancient Greek linguistic variation and the origins of the Greek verb. His work bridges linguistic analysis with classical textual studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to ancient language and culture. His research interests span sociolinguistic dynamics in Ancient Greek, the interface between language and literature in the ancient world, and the historical development of the Greek verbal system. He also supervises doctoral students in Ancient Greek linguistics and collaborates on projects involving other ancient Indo-European languages like Latin and Sabellic. Willi’s contributions to scholarship include over 100 peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes, and reviews, reflecting his leadership in comparative philology and historical linguistics. Key awards include his British Academy Fellowship, recognizing his contributions to Classics and linguistics. Willi’s academic output combines rigorous philological methods with broader theoretical perspectives, making him a pivotal figure in the study of ancient languages and their cultural contexts.

Ranjan SenView profile

Senior Lecturer

• Historical Phonology
• Phonetics
• Psycholinguistics
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Dr. Ranjan Sen is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sheffield's School of English, specializing in historical phonology and its intersections with phonetics, syntax, and heritage projects. His research reconstructs past language states, evaluates theories of sound change (e.g., the Life Cycle Model), and collaborates with museums and media to bring historical voices to life. Notably, he reconstructed John Keats' pronunciation for a 2021 CGI project, featured in major media outlets. Education: DPhil (2009), MPhil, and BA/MA in Classics from the University of Oxford. Prior roles include Teaching Fellow at UCL and Research Associate at Oxford. He co-created the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology database (ECEP) and edited special journal issues on historical phonology. Professional roles include Honorary Treasurer of the Philological Society and convenor of Sheffield's 'LingLunch' forum. Research highlights include published work on Latin phonology (Oxford University Press monograph), Greco-Roman linguistic traditions, and sociolinguistic analyses of historical dialects. He actively supervises PhD students in historical phonology and collaborates with heritage institutions globally. Teaching spans phonology, historical linguistics, and psycholinguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.