Biography
2021– FWF-Elise-Richter fellow, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
2017–2021 Universitätsassistentin (assistant professor), Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna.
2014–17 Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University, Montreal.
2014 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Harvard University.
2009 M.A. in Linguistics (Mag.phil.), University of Vienna
Main Areas of Research
Main Areas of Research
- Comparative Indo-European linguistics
- Indo-Iranian nominal and verbal morphology
- Morphosyntactic change in the Indo-Iranian verbal system
- Diachrony of derivational categories & categorizers
- Voice systems, argument structure alternations an reflexivity in Indo-European
- Morphological & syntactic theory
- Language change
- Diachronic syntax
- Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European nominal and verbal morphology
- Nominal compounding
Current Projects
Current Projects
- “Verbal categories and categorizers in diachrony” - FWF Elise-Richter-Projekt V 850-G
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
- 2021 - Two types of passive? Voice morphology and “low passives” in Greek and Sanskrit. Passives cross-linguistically, eds. K. Grohmann, E.-M. Remberger & A. Matsuya, 210–245. Leiden: Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004433427_008.
- 2021 - Historical linguistics. Chapter 8 of Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches, eds. John W. Schwieter & Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, 289–324. Cambridge University Press.
- 2020 - The diachrony of participles in the (pre)history of Greek and Hittite: losing and gaining functional structure. Diachronica 37/2: 215–263. doi.org/10.1075/dia.18040.gre.
- 2020 - Review of Lowe, John J., Transitive nouns and adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan, Oxford University Press 2017. Kratylos 65: 163–85. doi.org/10.29091/kratylos/2020/1/10.
- 2019 - Deponency in morphology. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.553.
- 2019 - The largesse of diminutives: suppressing the projection of roots. With Dalina Kallulli. Proceedings of NELS 49, Cornell University, Oct. 5–7, 2018, vol. 2, 61–74. Amherst: GLSA.
- 2019 - On Hittite iškallāri and the PIE “stative”. In Catt et al. (eds.), QAZZU warrai: Anatolian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Kazuhiko Yoshida, 91–105. Beech Stave Press.
- 2019 - Review of Lowe, John J., Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: the syntax and semantics of adjectival verb forms, Oxford University Press 2015. Kratylos 64/1: 141–62. doi.org/10.29091/kratylos/2019/1/12.
- 2018 - Deponency in finite and nonfinite contexts. Language 94/3: 487–526. doi.org/10.1353/lan.2018.0034.
- 2018 - Die Reflexe der *-nt- und *-mh1no-Partizipien im Hethitischen und Tocharischen. With Hannes A. Fellner. 100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen: Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und Forschung. Akten der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 23. September 2015 in Marburg, ed. E. Rieken. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 63–82.
- 2018 - Review of Walkden, George, Syntactic reconstruction and Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press 2014. Kratylos 63: 112–25. doi.org/10.29091/kratylos/2018/1/5.
For a full list of publications see detailed biography