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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 

Current Research

Dr Katherine Hodgson
Katherine Hodgson’s research interests include syntax, information structure, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, dialectology, and language documentation, particularly in connection with Armenian and Greek. She is currently working on the ERC-funded project Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: a Linguistic History of Minorities in the Middle East. She has also carried out an ELDP-funded project documenting Zok, an endangered variety of Armenian, as well as extensive fieldwork on other dialects of Armenian and Greek, including Pontic Greek as spoken in Armenia.

Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl
Ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics, Ancient Hebrew periodization, exegesis

Dr Benjamin Kantor
Biblical Hebrew; Medieval (and Late Antique) Hebrew Reading/Vocalisation Traditions; Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians; Judaeo-Arabic; Medieval Arabic Bible Translation; Semitic Philology; Greek of Judaea-Palestine; Jewish Translations of the Bible into Greek (e.g., LXX, Aquila)

Professor Roel Sterckx FBA
Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; cultural history of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies

Professor Vincenzo Vergiani
History of linguistic ideas and the philosophy of language in ancient India, including the role of grammar in the history of Sanskrit

Professor Boping Yuan
Empirical studies of bilingualism and multilingualism; linguistic approaches to non-native Chinese grammars; Chinese linguistics, syntax and semantics, bilingualism/bidialectalism and aphasia.