Eleanor Coghill
Professor in Semitic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 10 02
- E-mail:
- Eleanor.Coghill@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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- 0000-0002-0451-4397
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Short presentation
I have been Professor of Semitic Languages at Uppsala since 2016. My research and teaching interests extend across Semitic Languages and Linguistics. My work has focused on Aramaic, especially the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic languages. Given these are highly endangered, documentation has been a priority. My research also has a diachronic focus, looking at the development of Aramaic, in particular the effects of language contact. I am also interested in the Arabic dialects of the same region.
Biography
I studied Oriental Studies (Assyriology, Arabic and Hebrew) at the University of Cambridge (BA 1998, MPhil 1999, PhD 2004). I was employed as a Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge (2002–2005), then as a Research Associate at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge, working on the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Project (2004–2009). After this I was employed as Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz (2010–2015), leading the (German Research Foundation-funded) project Neo-Aramaic morpho-syntax in its areal-linguistic context. I was a Substitute Professor at the University of Konstanz in 2015, also working as a Researcher on the project Language and Space at the University of Zürich (2015–2016). I took up the Chair in Semitic Languages at Uppsala in August 2016.
Research
My publications (or drafts of them) can be found at:
https://uppsala.academia.edu/EleanorCoghill
My most important work to date is the monograph The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic: Cycles of Alignment Change (2016), published by Oxford University Press.
Publications
Recent publications
- Advances in Neo-Aramaic linguistics (2022)
- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and language contac (2020)
- Neo-Aramaic (2020)
- Grammatical relations in Telkepe Neo-Aramaic (2019)
- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (2019)
All publications
Articles
- Advances in Neo-Aramaic linguistics (2022)
- Neo-Aramaic and its linguistic context, written by Geoffrey Khan and Lidia Napiorkowska (eds.) (2016)
- Differential object marking in Neo-Aramaic (2014)
- Review: HEZY MUTZAFI, The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Betanure (Province of Dihok)(Semitica Viva 43). (2011)
- The grammaticalization of prospective aspect in a group of Neo-Aramaic dialects (2010)
- Four versions of a Neo-Aramaic children’s story (2009)
- Review: Werner Arnold and Hartmut Bobsin (eds), 'Sprich doch mit Deinen Knechten Aramäisch, wir verstehen es!' 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik. Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag (2006)
- The origin of ergativity in Sumerian, and the ‘inversion’ in pronominal agreement (2002)
Books
Chapters
- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and language contac (2020)
- Neo-Aramaic (2020)
- Grammatical relations in Telkepe Neo-Aramaic (2019)
- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (2019)
- The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Telkepe (2018)
- Information structure in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe (2018)
- The Gleaner-Woman (2018)
- Borrowing of verbal derivational morphology between Semitic languages (2015)
- The Neo-Aramaic dialect of Peshabur (2013)
- Parallels in the Grammaticalization of Neo-Aramaic zil- and Arabic raḥ- and a Possible Contact Scenario' (2012)
- Ditransitive constructions in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe (2010)
- The development of a new future tense in the Neo-Aramaic dialects of the Mosul Plain (2009)
- Some Notable Features in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects of Iraq (2008)
- Fieldwork on Neo-Aramaic (2007)
- The morphology and distribution of noun plurals in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Alqosh (2005)