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Dr. Giuseppina di Bartolo is a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne, specializing in Discourse Studies and Historical Linguistics. She will assume the role of Senior Researcher (RTDb) in Historical Comparative and General Linguistics at the University of Salento (Lecce) starting March 2025. Her research focuses on Postclassical Greek syntax, clause linkage strategies, and sociolinguistic aspects of Ancient Greek based on documentary papyri. She holds a PhD in Greek Philology from the University of Cologne (2018), with a tripartite supervision program (Doctor Europaeus) involving Cologne, Liège, and Sapienza University of Rome.
Her academic activities include organizing major conferences such as the 1st Postclassical Greek Conference Cologne (2021) and contributing to initiatives like the Pavia Verbs Database project. She is a Humboldt Fellow (2023–2024) at the University of Pavia, investigating syntactic and discursive aspects of ancient texts. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on linguistic structures, discourse analysis, and Postclassical Greek.
Key research areas span language contact, multilingualism in Greco-Roman Egypt, and the diachronic evolution of pragmatic markers. She frequently presents at international forums, including the International Congress of Linguists and the Societas Linguistica Europaea, with publications focusing on valency patterns, metaphorical language, and syntactic variation in ancient corpora.
- Education: PhD in Greek Philology (University of Cologne, 2018)
- Memberships: AIP, DGfS, IPrA, SLE, and others
- Grants: DFG-funded Postclassical Greek Conference (2021), Feodor Lynen Fellowship
Her work bridges historical linguistics with papyrology, employing corpus-based methods to analyze colloquial Greek from documentary sources. She collaborates with institutions across Europe and the US, contributing to interdisciplinary projects on ancient language use and variability.
