Core Team Comparative Philology

Daniel Kölligan studied historical-comparative linguistics, philosophy, classical philology and Romance studies at the University of Cologne, where he completed his doctorate with a thesis on verbal supplementation in Greek. From 2005-2008 he was a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. In 2015, he completed his habilitation in Cologne with a thesis on the historical grammar of Classical Armenian. Since October 2019, he has held the Chair of Comparative Linguistics at the Institute of Classical Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

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Postdoctoral researcher of the core team Comparative Philology (CV and publications).

Saverio Dalpedri received his education in Pisa, Freiburg, Cologne and Göttingen, where he was trained in both Indo-European studies and general linguistics. He specializes in historical-comparative linguistics, with a focus on the Greek language in its development from Mycenaean to modern dialects. His research interests concern the verbal morphosyntax of the ancient Indo-European languages: he has devoted his past research to topics like verbal reduplication, motion events, resultative participial constructions, and non-canonical alignment patterns in various languages. In the first phase of MagEIA, he will carry out a comprehensive analysis of the linguistic features of Ancient Greek magical texts as attested from all geographic areas relevant for the Centre of Advanced Studies.