Dr. des. Thomas Jügel

Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
Postfach 11 19 32
D - 60054 Frankfurt

Fon: 0049 - 69 - 798 23 179
Fax: 0049 - 69 - 798 22 873

e-mail: tjuegel at lingua (dot) uni (hyphen) frankfurt (dot) de

Curriculum studiorum / Teaching / Presentations / Publications

 


Historical Linguistics of Iranian Languages

My main interest lies in the history of modern Iranian languages. I think that understanding the historical development of a language means to understand the respective language better, its dialectal divergence, its relation-ship to other languages.
This is why I link my studies on Middle Iranian, and the analysis of its grammar and its grammatical changes, to the investigation of Modern Iranian varieties.

Current Projects


Curriculum studiorum

2011-2013Research assistant within the LOEWE-project "Digital Humanities" (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert)
2009-2010Research assistant within the project "Western Iranian Dialectology and Early Judeo-Persian" (supervisor: PD Dr. Agnes Korn)
2006-2009Scholarship of the Graduiertenkolleg Satzarten, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
2006-2012PhD project in comparative linguistics at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert, PD Dr. Agnes Korn)
Die Entwicklung der Ergativkonstruktion im Alt- und Mitteliranischen −
Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung zu Kasus, Kongruenz und Satzbau
[The development of the ergative construction in Old and Middle Iranian: A corpus-based approach]
Thesis defense: April, 24th, 2013
2000-2004Assistant within the project Sorani-German Dictionary by Feryad Fazil Omar (Freie Universität Berlin)
1998-2004Master studies
2004Magister Artium (MA) at Freie Universität Berlin
  • Iranian studies (major) at Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Maria Macuch)
  • Turkish studies (minor) at Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Barbara Kellner-Heinkele)
  • German linguistics (minor) at Humboldt Universität Berlin (Prof. Jürgen Kunze, Prof. Ewald Lang)
    •  master thesis: Hilfsverbselektion auf Persisch: haben haben nicht alle Sprachen − die Ergativkonstruktion
    [The Persian way of auxiliary selection: Not all languages have "to have" − The ergative construction]
    1997High School Diploma (Abitur, Goetheschule Essen)

    Courses taken and further training
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    Academic activities

    Teaching

    at the department of Comparative Linguistics, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
    spring 13
  • Middle Persian II
    • spring 13
  • Avestan IV
    • fall 12/13
  • Middle Persian I
    • fall 12/13
  • Avestan III
    • spring 12
  • New Persian II (with Saloumeh Gholami)
    • spring 12
  • Avestan II
    • fall 11/12
  • New Persian I (with Saloumeh Gholami)
    • fall 11/12
  • Avestan I
    • fall 10/11
  • New Persian II
    • spring 10
  • New Persian I
    • fall 09/10
  • Avestan
    • spring 09
  • Introduction to the Arabic script
    • fall 08/09
  • Old Persian
    • spring 08
  • Sorani Kurdish
    • fall 07/08
  • Yaghnobi
    • spring 07
  • Middle Persian
    • at the department of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
    fall 05/06
  • Formation of the past tense in Iranian languages

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    Presentations

    2012
  • Repetitive Sequences in Avestan and how to find them
    		• Workshop TITUS 25 (8-9 December, Frankfurt University)
    2011
  • On Aspect in Middle Persian
    		• 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) (7-10 September, Cracow University)
  • Vom resumptiven zum expletiven Pronomen im Mittelpersischen
    [From resumptive to expletive pronouns in Middle Persian]
    		• invited speaker at Linguistisches Kolloquium (1 July, Marburg University)
    2010
  • Ergativity − an areal feature?
    		• 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag (20-24 September, Marburg University)
  • Ergativity in Iranian Languages
    		• invited speaker at Summer School "New Western Iranian and Early Judeo-Persian Dialectology" (16-27 August, Hamburg University)
    2008
  • Topic agreement in Sorani Kurdish and its implications
    		• First International Conference on Languages and Dialects in Iran (28-31 October, University of Sistan and Baluchistan, Zahedan / Iran)
    2007
  • Ergative remnants in Sorani Kurdish?
    		• 30. Deutscher Orientalistentag (24-28 September, Freiburg University)
  • The development of the preterite stem in the Iranian languages − Old Persian and Avestan
    		• 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) (18-22 September, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
  • Was Klitika uns über die Vergangenheit verraten: Zentralkurdisch (Soranî) vs. Mittelpersisch
    [What clitics tell us about the past: Central Kurdish (Sorani) vs. Middle Persian]
    		• Arbeitstreffen Graduiertenkolleg "Satzarten" Frankfurt am Main / Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin (15-17 June, Humboldt University Berlin)

    Organization of workshops

    2011
  • ECoDA: European Cooperation on Digitizing Avestan
    		•      Workshop of Digital Humanities (4-6 November, Frankfurt am Main)
    2010
  • New Iranian Areal Linguistics − Morphosyntax and loan structures in the course of time
    (together with Prof. Dr. Sonja Gippert-Fritz)
    		•      Panel at the 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag (23 September, Marburg University)

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    Publications

    [in square brackets: date of submission]

    [2013]
  • "The Verbal Particle BE in Middle Persian",

    • 18 pp. in: Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft
    2012
  • "Peculiarities of Avestan Manuscripts for Computational Linguistics"

    • pp. 25-38 in: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 27(2), guest editors Armin Hoenen and Thomas Jügel, ed. by Lothar Lemnitzer and Thierry Declerck, reviewed online publication
    2011
    [2009]
  • "On the Origin of the Ergative Construction in Iranian: Evidence from Avestan."

    • pp. 99-114 in: Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies − Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22 September 2007, ed. by Maria Macuch, Dieter Weber and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Iranica 19, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
    2011
    [2006]
  • Review of: "Weber, D. (ed.): Languages of Iran: Past and Present − Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie, Iranica 8, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005."

    • pp. 308-311 in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 70/2, The University of Chicago Press
    2010
  • Concordance of the Four Versions of Kirdîr′s Inscriptions

    • online publication
    2010
    [2008]
  • The Psalter

    • preparation of the Middle Persian Book of Psalms for the TITUS text database
  • Handarz î Ô¹nar î dânâg

    • preparation for the TITUS text database
    2009
    [2008]
  • "Ergative Remnants in Sorani Kurdish?"

    • pp. 142-158 in: Orientalia Suecana 58
    2008
    [2007]
  • "Ergativität im Sorani-Kurdischen?"

    • In: Rainer Brunner, Jens Peter Laut, Maurus Reinkowski (eds.): XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freiburg, 24.-28 September 2007. Ausgewählte Vorträge
    (revised and translated version 2009 in: OS 58)
    [2009]
  • "Syntax of Iranian."

    • In: Matthias Fritz, Jared S. Klein (eds.): Comparative Indo-European Linguistics [Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft]. Berlin: de Gruyter

    Edited Works

    2012"Altüberlieferte Sprachen als Gegenstand der Texttechnologie − Ancient Languages as the Object of Text Technology"
    In: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 27(2), guest editors Armin Hoenen and Thomas Jügel, ed. by Lothar Lemnitzer and Thierry Declerck, reviewed online publication

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