Simon Poulsen
  • Emil Holms Kanal 2, 2300 København S, 22 Bygning 22 (Afsnit 1), 22-4-34

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

  • Source: Scopus
20202023

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Short presentation

I am working on the internal relationships between the Indo-European language branches, but I am also engaged in many other phonological and morphological aspects of Indo-European linguistics:

  • comparative Indo-European linguistics
  • reconstruction of the Indo-European proto-language
  • linguistic phylogenetics
  • the relationship between Indo-Iranian and Greek
  • Greek linguistic history
  • Indo-Iranian linguistic history

I am further interested in language history of other language families, language variation in general, epigraphy and runology.

Current research

PhD Project
The relationship between Indo-Iranian and Greek

Project start: September 1 2020
Supervisor: Thomas Olander
Funded by The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics as one of the free scholarships of the Faculty of Humanities
In collaboration with Connecting the Dots

My PhD project has the working title The relationship between Greek and Indo-Iranian. I am examining how closely related these two branches are within the Indo-European language family. I am working with different comparative methods and am trying to establish significant innovations shared by the two groups in their phonology and inflectional morphology. I am further interested in linking this hypothetic language state to archaeological material cultures and prehistoric migrations.

Teaching

I have tought part of the BA-course Greek and Latin language history, and I have supervised BA theses. I am able to supervise exam papers or projecs on Indo-European linguistics, phylogenetics, Greek or Indo-Iranian language history. I am happy to receive inquiries or questions.

CV

Employments

  • 2020–: PhD fellow, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, working on the project the relationship between Indo-Iranian and Greek.
  • 2019-2020: research assistent, Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen, at the project Danish Language Inclusion
  • 2014-2018: student assistent at various sections at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics and Nordich Research Institute

Education

  • 2019: MA in Indo-European Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, with the thesis Κόραξ καὶ ἀλώπηξ: Time-depth in Indo-European Velar Stem Suffixes which won the 3rd prize for best thesis of the Society for Indo-European Studies.
  • 2016: BA in Indo-European Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
  • 2013: graduation from Odense Katedralskole

Education/Academic qualification

Indo-European Linguistics, MA, University of Copenhagen

1 Sep 201629 May 2019

Award Date: 29 May 2019

Indo-European Linguistics, BA

1 Sep 201330 Jun 2016

External positions

Research Assistant, Danish Language Inclusion, Department of Computer Science, IT Universitetet

Aug 201931 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Indo-European linguistics
  • Greek
  • Indo-Iranian
  • Etymology
  • Language history
  • phonology
  • morphology
  • runology