Thomas Jügel, M.A.

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

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e-mail: juegel at stud (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

since 2011Research 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
since 2006PhD 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]
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 12
  • New Persian II (with Saloumeh Gholami, planned)
    • spring 12
  • Avestan II (planned)
    • 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

    2011
  • On Aspect in Middle Persian
    		• 7th Conference of Iranian Studies (7-10 September, Cracow)
  • 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 in Iranian Languages
    		• 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag (20-24 September, Marburg University)
  • Ergativity in Iranian Languages
    		• invited speaker atSummer 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 on 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]

    2011
    [2009]    		"On the Origin of the Ergative Construction in Iranian: Evidence from Avestan."
    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."
    In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 70/2, The University of Chicago Press
    2010Concordance of the Four Versions of Kirdîrs′s Inscriptions
    online publication
    2010
    [2008]    		The Psalter
    preparation of the Middle Persian Book of Psalms for the TITUS text database
    Handarz î Ôšnar 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

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