معرفی
Nadav Asraf is a Lecturer in Classics at Harvard University, holding office hours Wednesday and Friday 10:30–11:45 a.m. in Boylston 206. His primary affiliation is with the Department of Classics within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
He holds a BA in Classics from the Hebrew University (2012) and a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University (2023). His doctoral dissertation focused on The Middle Category in the Aorist Tense in the Homeric Epics—A Study of Form vs. Function.
Research interests span structural and functional linguistics of Ancient Greek and Latin, Indo-European linguistics, textual transmission studies, post-classical Greek language evolution, late Latin and Romance language emergence, metrics/prosody, classical reception by Hebrew speakers, language pedagogy, and the history of classical education. His work emphasizes syntactic-morphology interfaces and diachronic linguistic analysis.
Recent publications (2021–2023) focus on syntactic-morphology interactions in Ancient Greek, including aorist tense analysis, noun incorporation mechanisms, and morpheme syntactic properties. These contributions advance understanding of Ancient Greek linguistic structures and their theoretical implications.
No academic awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided materials. His professional activities include teaching and research supervision in classical philology and historical linguistics.
