🚨 We are recruiting!

5-year post-doc in Computational Humanities at the University of Lausanne

Working language: French

Details: www.unil.ch/news/1743431...
Deadline: 22 April 2025

I'm happy to (informally) answer any questions.

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🚨 New publication: the special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society on contact-induced morphosyntactic change, guest-edited by Michele Bianconi and me, has now been published.

All 11 papers, many of which in Open Access, can be found here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467968x...

I'm pleased to announce the publication in Open Access of:
Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian. The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication

All relevant details, including an abstract and the PDF of the book, can be found on the Publisher's Website.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

On my to Washington DC to speak at the Dumbarton Oaks Fall Colloquium about Byzantine commentaries on the Armenian version of Dionysios Thrax.

Then northwards for a guest lecture at Harvard about my research on Iranian-Armenian language contact in Late Antiquity.

Join me there if you like and can!

🚨 Job opportunity @ Université de Lausanne!

5-year doctoral position (80%FTE) in language variation and change.

Deadline: 20 November !!!
Language: French
Details: news.unil.ch/display/1698...

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I've been working on an 11th-c. commentary on the Armenian version of Dionysios Thrax' "Art of Grammar" today.
The highlight: this passage dealing with declension at the example of Plato (Պղատոն), including dual (a pair of Platos), feminine (Platoness) and neuter (a plato-thing) forms.
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A Cerulean hello! I'm a historical linguist / linguistic typologist working on diachronic syntax and language contact, mainly in the late antique / early mediaeval Caucasus and Mediterranean.

My new book 'Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian' will be out soon in #OpenAccess. 🥳