Stefan Vujić (born 2002, Belgium) studied at Ghent University. He finished his bachelor's degree in English & German Linguistics & Literature in 2023 and obtained his master’s degree in Historical Linguistics & Literature in 2024 with summa cum laude.
In September 2025, Stefan started as a BOF PhD-student at the Linguistics Department of Ghent University supervised by professors Jóhanna Barðdal, Torsten Leuschner, and Eric Lander (Uppsala University). The project is a dialectal study of the entire West Germanic runic corpus from between ca. 400 and 700 AD that seeks to better define and contextualise the West Germanic dialects found on the inscriptions, to scrutinize reconstructed linguistic models, and to tackle unsolved issues pertaining to postulated isoglosses, difficult to interpret inscriptions, and the status of the runic corpora themselves. The findings of this study are to be mapped out and visualised using GIS-mapping software. From 01/11/2025 onwards, this project will be continued under an FWO fundamental research mandate.
Stefan’s previous research includes work on translatio imperii in high mediaeval Latin and Middle High German historiography published in the journal Comitatus, and a diachronic study based on his master’s dissertation on the development of the English response particle paradigm that applies the overlooked perspective of semantic change, specifically change through grammaticalization, to the study of yes and no. This work is still undergoing the publication process.
