Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
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Currently I am a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Roots of Europe Centre. My current project is PHILOGLOSSA: Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Greek: Lexicon of the Substrate Analyzed (ERC Grant Agreement 101108732 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108732)
More generally my research focuses on the history of the Greek language from Proto-Indo-European to the classical Greek dialects and theoretical problems in and practical applications of phylogenetic methods in historical linguistics.
More broadly, my research interests include:
- Greek philology and linguistics from all periods
- Indo-European comparative linguistics and philology (especially of the Hellenic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian and Armenian sub-branches)
- Indo-European lexicography and etymology
- Language and Society in Mediterranean Antiquity
- Language contact and historical sociolinguistics
Education/Academic qualification
Classical and Comparative Philology and Linguistics, PhD, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 25 Mar 2017
Classical Languages, MA, University of Alberta
Award Date: 17 Nov 2011
Classical Languages, BA, University of Alberta
Award Date: 15 Jun 2009
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Relative Chronology and the Outcomes of the Proto-Greek Labiovelars in the Context of Ancient Greek Dialect Geography
Scarborough, M., 13 Sep 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Classical Continuum.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification
Scarborough, M., 2023, Leiden & Boston: Brill. 395 p. (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, Vol. 26).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages
Heggarty, P., Anderson, C., Scarborough, M., King, B., Bouckaert, R., Jocz, L., Kümmel, M. J., Jügel, T., Irslinger, B., Pooth, R., Liljegren, H., Strand, R., Haig, G., Macák, M., Kim, R. I., Anonby, E., Pronk, T., Belyaev, O., Dewey-Findell, T. K., Boutilier, M. & 13 others, , 28 Jul 2023, In: Science. 381, 6656, 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Bactrian χϸονο '(calendar) year, (regnal) year'
Scarborough, M. J. C., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 31, 3, p. 599-607 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Arabic and Coptic Witnesses to the Transmission of the Testament of Solomon in Christian Egypt: Judgments of Solomon and the Legend of Solomon and Thabor
Čéplö, S., Scarborough, M. & Suciu, A., 2023, Editionen und Studien zum Testamentum Salomonis. Albrecht, F. & Dochhorn, J. (eds.). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, p. 149-169Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Cognacy and Computational Cladistics: Issues in Determining Lexical Cognacy for Indo-European Cladistic Research
Scarborough, M., 2020, Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Early Stages of Indo-European. Serangeli, M. & Olander, T. (eds.). Leiden & Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, p. 179-208 30 p. (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 19).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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A New Edition of IG IX, 2 69
Scarborough, M. J. C., 2015, In: Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 193, p. 166-171 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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On the Phonology and Orthography of the Thessalian Mid-Long Vowels
Scarborough, M., 2014, 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (Rhodes, 26-29 September 2013): Selected Papers / Πρακτικά. Kotzoglou, G., Nikolou, K., Karantzola, E., Frantzi, K., Galantomos, I., Georgalidou, M., Kourti-Kazoullis, V., Papadopoulou, C. & Vlachou, E. (eds.). Rhodes: University of the Aegean, p. 1535-1548Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Activities
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The o-stem Genitive Singular in the Classical Greek Dialects
Matthew Scarborough (Invited speaker)
16 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Ancient Greek (ἀ)στεροπή, ἀστραπή 'lightning-flash' revisited
Matthew Scarborough (Speaker)
11 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Relative chronology and loanword stratigraphy: towards a framework for classifying prehistoric loanwords in Ancient Greek
Matthew Scarborough (Speaker)
29 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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The Proto-Greek Labiovelars: An examination of an isogloss in the context of Ancient Greek dialect geography
Matthew Scarborough (Invited speaker)
19 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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The Formation of Ancient Greek: A view from construction and craft terminology
Matthew Scarborough (Speaker)
9 Sep 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Branch Out
Matthew Scarborough (Participant)
15 May 2024 → 17 May 2024Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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A New Tool for Investigating the Indo-European Lexicon: The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Database
Matthew Scarborough (Speaker)
24 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Inferring relative chronologies from phylogenetic data
Thomas Olander (Lecturer), Marc Canby (Lecturer), Anders Richardt Jørgensen (Lecturer), Simon Poulsen (Lecturer) & Matthew Scarborough (Lecturer)
30 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution