Stella Merlin

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Foto Stella Merlin, September 28, 2017
Position
Temporary Assistant Professor
Sections
Lettere
Academic sector
L-LIN/01 - HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Research sector (ERC)
SH5_1 - Classics, ancient literature and art

SH4_11 - Pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis

Telephone
+39 045802 8331
E-mail
stella|merlin*univr|it <== Replace | with . and * with @ to have the right email address.

Office Hours

Tuesday, Hours 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM,  
Wednesday, Hours 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM,  
Thursday, Hours 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM,  

Curriculum

Stella Merlin is a PhD in Linguistics. She holds a BA in Classics, and a MA and PhD in Linguistics. She has been working on historical linguistics and comparative philology (with particular reference to Ancient languages), levels of linguistic variation and change, and language contact. Furthermore, she is interested in concepts and categories in the history of the linguistic thought. She currently works as a researcher in the ERC Horizon 2020 PALaC project "Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact" (P.I. Prof. Federico Giusfredi) studying contacts in the Aegean-Anatolian context of the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, and defining some keywords for the study of language contact in Ancient societies.

Modules

Modules running in the period selected: 5.
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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures Historical Linguistics (2019/2020)   6    6 
Master's degree in Linguistics Levels of linguistic analysis (2019/2020)   6    3 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures Historical Linguistics (2018/2019)   6  eLearning 6 
Master's degree in Linguistics Levels of linguistic analysis (2018/2019)   6  eLearning 3 
Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures Historical Linguistics (2017/2018)   6  eLearning 6 

 

Research groups

Cultures and languages in contact in the Ancient Near East
Study of the linguistic and cultural contacts in the Ancient Near East, in particular in the area of pre-classical Anatolia, with reference to the activities of the PALaC research project.
Skills
Topic Description Research area
Lessico di linguistica Laboratorio del Lessico di Linguistica - Il metalinguaggio Linguistics
Theoretical linguistics; computational linguistics
Historical & Comparative Linguistics Historical & Comparative Linguistics has language as its proper object of study in both diachronic and synchronic perspective. Linguistics
Philology and palaeography; historical linguistics
Projects
Title Starting date
PALaC 2/1/18



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