Biography
2023–: Co-Projektleiterin in “Open Pashto-English Dictionary: A gateway to Afghanistan’s history and dialectology” (ÖAW go!digital Projekt)
2021–2022: Projektmitarbeiterin (Post-Doc) “KINURA: Evolution of kinship in Uralic speaking populations” (Universität Helsinki, gefördert von der Kone Foundation)
2016–2018: ÖAW Doc-Stipendiatin, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien
2015–2021: Doktorat Indogermanistik und historische Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien
2012–2014: Masterstudium Indogermanistik und historische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien
Main Areas of Research
Main Areas of Research
- Indogermanistik & historisch-vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
- Iranische und indische Linguistik
- Iranische Lexikologie und Lexikographie
- Areal- und Kontaktlinguistik
- Semantischer Wandel
- Indogermanische Nominalmorphologie
- Kinship Studies
Current Projects
Current Projects
Open Pashto-English Dictionary: A gateway to Afghanistan’s history and dialectology
AAS go!digital project GD3.0_2021-02_OPED
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
- Milanova, Veronika. 2020. Brothers and many others: The concept ‘offspring’ and its semantic extensions in Indo-European languages. Journal of Indo-European Studies 48 (1 & 2), 189–217. http://www.jiesonline.com/issues/vol481_2.html
- Milanova, Veronika. 2020. Indo-European kinship terms as an interdisciplinary topic (Reconstruction of social realities – anthropological views and methodological considerations). In: Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead & Birgit Anette Olsen (eds). Kin, clan and community in prehistoric Europe. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 23–38. ISBN-13: 978-8763546188, ISBN-10: 8763546183.
- Milanova, Veronika; Holopainen, Sampsa; Bradley, Jeremy. 2020. Contact phenomena in IndoEuropean kinship and social terms and beyond (a pilot study with special focus on the Iranian and Uralic languages in the context of Central Eurasia). In: Romain Garnier (ed). Loanwords and Substrata: Proceedings of the Colloquium held in Limoges (5th-7th June, 2018). Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 345–366. ISBN (Print): 3851247515, ISBN (Electronic): 9783851247510.
- Milanova, Veronika. 2019 / 2020. MUNUS/fduttarii̯ata/i- and some other Indo-European maidens. In: Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Charles University, Prague, 11–14 November 2015, edited by Ronald I. Kim, Jana Mynářová, and Peter Pavúk with the assistance of Dita Frantíková and Petr Zemánek. Leiden: Brill, 277–294. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004413122_015
- Bradley, Jeremy; Hirvonen, Johannes; Milanova, Veronika. 2018. Benefaktív és malefaktív szerkezetek az uráliban (és azon túl). Előzetes vizsgálat [Benefactives and Malefactives in Uralic (and Beyond). A Pilot Study]. Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok XXX, 19–36: ISBN 978-963-059951-1.
- Milanova, Veronika. 2018. Праиндоевропейские термины родства на *-ter и возрастные степени / Proto-Indo-European kinship terms in *-ter and age grades. Алгебрародства: Родство. Системыродства. Системытерминовродства 16 / Kinship Algebra: Kinship. Kinship systems. Systems of kinship terms 16, 70–97: ISBN 978-5-91406-087-6.
For a full list of publications see detailed biography