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 Starting Grant (www.evwrit.ugent.be) to expand the communicative analysis of documentary texts from language to visual and material dimensions, thus establishing 'historical socio-semiotics' as a discipline. He has published some seventy-five 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).