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Dr. Pascal Coenen

Historical-Comparative Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-5624
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

E-Mail: p.coenen[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Publications

Dissertation

Articles

  • Gipper, Sonja, Eugen Hill & Pascal Coenen. 2026. Language change in real time: Investigating conversational priming in repetitional responses. In Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl & Birgit Hellwig. The documentarist turn. From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, 756-785. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Coenen, Pascal. Accepted. On the functions of the particle áha in the Rigveda and its etymology. Journal of Indo-European Studies.
  • Coenen, Pascal. 2025 [2023]. Rigvedic báḍ: A presentative particle. Historische Sprachforschung, 136, 21-50.
  • Coenen, Pascal. 2025. Non-canonical quantification in Old Persian: The adverb vasai̯. Folia Linguistica 59(3). 581–632. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2039.
  • Coenen, Pascal 2023. A New Interpretation of the Vedic Particle aṅgá. Bhasha. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Philology and Grammatical Traditions 2.1, 143–220. DOI: http://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/01/007
  • Coenen, Pascal. 2022 [2020-2021]. The functions of the Old Persian particle =ci. Die Sprache 54, 13–94.
  • Coenen, Pascal & Michael Frotscher. 2020. The nominative/vocative plural of Vedic masculine a-stems in complex nominal expressions. Indogermanische Forschungen 125, 165–215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2020-009.

Datasets/Online-Corpora

  • Kölligan, Daniel, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl, Patrick Sahle, Antje Casaretto, Jennifer Bunselmeier, Pascal Coenen, Anna Fischer, Börge Kiss, Natalie Korobzow, Jürgen Rolshoven, Jakob Halfmann, Francisco Mondaca. VedaWeb. Online Research Platform for Old Indic Texts. University of Cologne. https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de, accessed 02/25/2026.
  • Casaretto, Antje, Pascal Coenen, Anna Fischer, Jakob Halfmann, Natalie Korobzow, Daniel Kölligan and Uta Reinöhl. 2024. The morphologically glossed Rigveda: The Zurich annotation corpus revised and extended. Hosted by VedaWeb – Online Research Platform for Old Indic Texts. University of Cologne. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15489124.

Talks

  • Neuefeind, Claes, Börge Kiss, Anna Fischer, Antje Casaretto, Pascal Coenen, Daniel Kölligan, Uta Reinöhl & Patrick Sahle. Der Klang der Veden: Rezitationen vedischer Texte im VedaWeb. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2026). Universität Wien (27.02.2026).
  • Coenen, Pascal. Zur Funktion und Etymologie der vedischen Partikel bhala. Vielfaltslinguistik 7. Universität Münster (03.06.2025).
  • Coenen, Pascal. How modern languages can help us understand the Vedas: The case of particles. University of Tübingen, (07.01.2025).
  • Coenen, Pascal. Non-canonical quantification in Old Persian: The adverb vasai̯. XVII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft. The Speakers of Indo-European and their World. University of Basel (10.09.2024).
  • Coenen, Pascal. Die Fokuspartikel di im Nuristani Kalasha. Vielfaltslinguistik 6. Sprachbeschreibung und Sprachenvergleich. Universität Graz (14.06.2024).
  • Coenen, Pascal. Vedic báḍ: A presentative particle. The 8th International Vedic Workshop, Paris (22.09.2023).
  • Coenen, Pascal. The totalizing function of the Vedic particle cid. 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Universität Heidelberg (04.09.2023).
  • Coenen, Pascal. The Vedic particle aṅgá: A marker of shared knowledge.18th World Sanskrit Conference, The Australian National University (online, 12.01.2023).
  • Coenen, Pascal, Sonja Gipper & Eugen Hill. Repetitional Responses in Language Change. Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford (02.08.2022).
  • Coenen, Pascal & Michael Frotscher. Agentivity and prominence: the case of differential subject marking in Old Indo-Iranian. Second International Conference ‘Prominence in Language’, Universität zu Köln (13.06.2018).
  • Coenen, Pascal. Differentielle Subjektmarkierung im Indoiranischen. 4. Indogermanistisches Forschungskolloquium, Universität Zürich (06.04.2018).
  • Coenen, Pascal. Der Kausativ in Zaghawa (Wagi). Vielfaltslinguistik: 2. Konferenz zu Typologie und Feldforschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (20.03.2018).