Dr. Andreas Willi

Biography

Professor Andreas Willi is the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology and a Professorial Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has a rich academic background with qualifications including lic. phil. from Basel and Fribourg, DPhil from Oxford, and Habil from Basel, along with being a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). His work has notably centered on sociolinguistic variation in Ancient Greek, emphasizing the language-contact dimensions within literature and culture of the ancient world, particularly in relation to Sicily. Willi's major study investigates the history and prehistory of the Greek (and Indo-European) verbal system focusing on the development of tense-aspect categories from both formal and functional philological perspectives. His publications span a wide range of topics, including historical grammar, etymology, and dialectal variation across various ancient languages like Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, Etruscan, Old Irish, and Hittite. He is also active in supervising Master's and doctoral theses on Comparative Philology, particularly on Ancient Greek and Latin linguistics. Furthermore, he has served as the editor for 'Glotta: Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache' since 2014.

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