Prof. Andreas Willi Lic Phil (Basel), Lic Phil (Fribourg), Dphil (Oxford)

Worcester College
Oxford,
OX1 2HB

Tel: (01865) 288318


http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/willi

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Andreas Willi (*1972, Altstätten/Switzerland) studied Classics, Slavonic Languages and Literatures and Historical-Comparative Linguistics at the Universities of Basel, Lausanne, and Fribourg in Switzerland as well as at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After writing his doctoral thesis on sociolinguistic variation in Ancient Greek at the University of Oxford, he worked as Oberassistent in Classics (Latin and Greek Philology) at the University of Basel, before becoming a member of the Swiss Institute at Rome and then moving back to Oxford in 2005.

Research Interests

Ancient Greek sociolinguistics and dialectology; language and linguistic culture in the ancient world; comparative grammar and etymology of Greek, Latin and Indo-European

Selected Recent Publications

2009: “To be or not to be: the Latin perfect in -v-”, Historische Sprachforschung, 122, 228-247.
2010: “Hera, Eros, Iuno Sororia”, Indogermanische Forschungen, 115, 234-267.
2010: “Campaigning for utilitas: style, grammar and philosophy in C. Iulius Caesar”, in Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud (eds.), Colloquial and Literary Latin, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 229-242.
2010: “L’aoristo sigmatico tra filologia e tipologia”, in Ignazio Putzu, Giulio Paulis, Gian Franco Nieddu, Pierluigi Cuzzolin (eds.), La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia, Milano (Franco Angeli), 512-528.
2010: “The Umbrian perfect in -nç-/-nś-”, Transactions of the Philological Society, 108, 1-14.
2010: “Attic as the language of the Classics”, in Chrys C. Caragounis (ed.), Greek: A Language in Evolution, Hildesheim (Olms), 101-118.
2010: “The language of Old Comedy”, in Gregory W. Dobrov (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy, Leiden (Brill), 471-510.
2010: “Register variation”, in Egbert J. Bakker (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient Greek Language, Oxford (Blackwell), 297-310.

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