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About half of the world's population speaks an Indo-European language. Now spread all over the globe, this language family has developed from a single pre-historic language spoken before the invention of writing.

Historical Indo-European Linguistics (also called Comparative Philology) studies the Indo-European daughter languages and reconstructs their common ancestor, called Proto-Indo-European (PIE), in various aspects (phonological system, morphology, syntax, lexicon). At the same time, many linguistic features of the individual daughter languages can be explained on the basis of PIE and its subsequent developments into the Germanic languages, Italic (including Romance), Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Celtic languages, Greek, Anatolian (Hittite, etc.), Albanian, and Tocharian. All this is possible because linguistic change is not arbitrary, but based on general principles best visible in phonology and morphology.

The philological treatment of Indo-European languages also leads to insights into the cultural background of the respective language community (history, social structure, religion, philosophy, poetry, etc.). 

Indo-European Linguistics is an interdisciplinary subject, dealing with an area ranging from Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Ancient Anatolia and Mesopotamiato India and West China and with language records going back as far as the 2nd millenium BC. As a branch of linguistics, it applies linguistic theory/theories to ancient, medieval and early modern language data and provides a wealth of information for theories of language change and language typology. In Würzburg, Indo-European Linguistics participates in the Master's program "General and Applied Linguistics" and collaborates closely with other philological disciplines.

The department

The Department of Ancient Studies and its chairs:

Chair of Egyptology

Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Chair of Classical Archaeology

Chair of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Würzburg Centre of Ancient Studies (Würzburger Altertumswissenschaftliches Zentrum)

Society for Indo-European Studies

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Class schedule for the summer term 2023

Lectures and Events

Feb 24

Postclassical Greek Network – 4th meeting
Organisers: Dr. Giuseppina di Bartolo (Köln) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg)

Apr 24

Frauen mit Eigenschaften. Zwei exzeptionell erhaltene Bestattungen von Zivilistinnen vor den Toren des römischen Legionslagers Vindonissa (CH)
Dr. Ana Maspoli | Ulrich Stockinger, M.A. (Basel)

May 08

Der Galgen bei Allensbach — Ausgrabung und Erforschung einer frühneuzeitlichen Richtstätte am Bodensee
Dr. Michael Francken | Dr. Jürgen Hald (Konstanz)

May 15

Die Königsgruft Qatna, Syrien
Prof. Dr. Peter Pfälzner (Tübingen)

News

31.01.2023 — Job advertisement

The Chair of Comparative Linguistics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany, is inviting applications for a Researcher Position (Computational Linguist / Developer for Natural Language Processing) in the DFG-funded ‘Classical Armenian Valency Lexicon’ project. The contract will start on 1 May 2023 and will be fixed term for an expected duration of three years. The position is part time (0.5 FTE). For more details, please see the job advertisement.

 

16.12.2022 — DFG approves further research project at the Chair of Comparative Philology

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund a project by Dr Petr Kocharov at the Chair of Comparative Philology entitled "Classical Armenian Valency Lexicon (CAVAL)" from next year. It will create a corpus-based valency lexicon of Old Armenian verbs and make it digitally available. Further details can be found here.

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Recent publications

Kölligan, Daniel. 2022. "From 'throat' to 'self'? A note on the development of reflexive markers and Armenian anjn.", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 74/2, 41-60.

Kölligan, Daniel. 2022. Hrach Martirosyan. Iranisches Personennamenbuch.V/3: Iranian personal names in Armenian collateral tradition (openedition.org) (Rezension).

Kölligan, Daniel. 2022. A note on Greek πρυλέες ‘foot-soldiers’ and πρύλις ‘pyrrhic’. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 18.2, 163-177.

Kölligan, Daniel. 2020[2022]. „Hittite naḫ(ḫ)- ‘to fear’, OIr. nár ‘noble, modest’ and Greek νῶτον ‘back’, Latin natis ‘rump, buttock(s)’*“. Historical Linguistics 133, Nr. 1: 144–54. DOI: 10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.144.

Kölligan, Daniel. 2020[2022]. „The walking and the dead: a note on Gmc. *kwikwa- ‘alive’*“. Historical Linguistics 133, Nr. 1: 155–66. DOI: 10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.155.

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