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Eleanor Coghill is Professor of Semitic Languages in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. Her academic profile centers on the linguistic analysis and documentation of Neo-Aramaic dialects, particularly those from Northeastern Iraq.
Her research interests encompass:
- Historical development of Neo-Aramaic dialects
- Morphological and syntactic structures in Semitic languages
- Language contact phenomena between Neo-Aramaic and Arabic
- Grammaticalization processes in endangered languages
- Documentation of rapidly disappearing linguistic varieties
Professor Coghill's scholarly output reveals a consistent trajectory of detailed linguistic analysis combined with fieldwork-based documentation. Her recent publications (2022-2025) demonstrate continued engagement with cutting-edge research in Neo-Aramaic linguistics, with particular emphasis on morphological borrowing, dialectal variation, and grammatical features across different Neo-Aramaic varieties.
She has made significant contributions to major reference works in Semitic linguistics, including chapters in 'The Semitic Languages' (Routledge, 2019) and co-editing the comprehensive 'Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures — A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan' (2025). Her 2016 monograph 'The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change' published by Oxford University Press represents a major theoretical contribution to historical linguistics.
