My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using ...read more
After the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE, Greek becomes the main written language in Egypt until the seventh century CE. Many of the changes between Classical ...read more
Over the years, historians of early modern Europe have studied religious identities as inflexible constructs, claiming that people perceived one another as either fellow believers or heretic dissidents. By drawing ...read more
This doctoral dissertation looks at the narrative fiction of Argentina's "children of the disappeared" through the lens of trauma. In Argentina, over the course of the past decades, the most ...read more
This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an explicit interest to deal with theater as a visual event. Bringing theater studies in close connection with visual studies, ...read more
The postdoctoral project aims to examine the effects of a study abroad on foreign language acquisition. More specifically, the project will investigate possible gains in the lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge ...read more
Around the sixth century BCE arose in the Indian religio-philosophical environment that was dominated by the Brahmanical tradition (the oldest form of Hinduism) the still living religious tradition of Jainism. ...read more
This project aims to study the functional range and the alternating uses of four types of presentational constructions (prosodic inversion, syntactic inversion, syntactic inversion with filler insertion and syntactic split) in ...read more
During the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, Flemings fought as mercenaries in the Norman armies. Little is known about the Flemings who, following the Norman-Conquest, settled in the ...read more