Flavia Pompeo

Flavia Pompeo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Letters and Cultures, Sapienza University of Rome. Her work focuses on morphosyntax, semantics, and historical sociolinguistics of ancient Indo-European and Balkan languages, with specialization in Old Greek and Old Persian corpora.

She employs methodologies from Construction Grammar and cognitive linguistics, analyzing case functions, possessive expressions, and argument alternations. Her research integrates digital corpora for Old Persian studies and examines the Achaemenid cuneiform script and metalinguistic phenomena.

Her recent publications (2024–2019) explore case systems, verbal semantics, epigraphic dating formulas, and multilingualism in ancient empires, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach combining traditional linguistics with digital tools.

She has been Director of the Linguistics Degree Program (2020–2023, reappointed 2023–2026) and contributes to international research projects on ancient language contact and writing systems. Active in academic community-building, she organizes conferences and participates in scholarly societies.