Prof. Dr. Klaas Bentein

Klaas Bentein was born in Waregem, Belgium, in 1985. He received a master’s degree in Classics from Ghent University in 2007, and a doctoral degree in Linguistics from the same university in 2012. Afterwards, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the universities of Michigan (BAEF, 2013 – 2014), Ghent (FWO, 2014 – 2017) and Harvard (CHS, 2017 – 2018). He is currently Associate Research Professor at Ghent University. His main research interests include the syntax and morphology of Ancient Greek, historical socio-linguistics, and papyrology. He has recently been awarded an ERC grant (EVWRIT) to expand the socio-semiotic analysis of documentary texts to dimensions such as handwriting, writing material, and document format, applying insights from linguistics. He has published over forty articles in books and peer-reviewed journals. His dissertation was published by Oxford University Press as Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: Have- and Be- Constructions (2016).