• The European Huns had ancient Siberian roots

  A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This result refutes the previously assumed Turkish.

   

• Multifactor authentication: Cisco Duo

  To protect your data and devices and to prevent cyberattacks, all students are required to use the multifactor authentication Cisco Duo starting May 5, 2025.

   

• Vacancy Student Assistant (IT)

  The Department of Linguistics (General and Historical-Comparative Linguistics) has an immediate vacancy for a SHK or WHB in the IT area (between 9 and 19 hours per week). Please send applications in digital form to Dr Claudia Wegener (claudia.wegener[at]uni-koeln.de).

   

• Dr. Svenja Bonmann admitted to Junges Kolleg

  We congratulate Dr. Svenja Bonmann, who will be accepted as a fellow of the Young Academy (Junges Kolleg) of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste) on 1 January 2025. The fellowship not only offers financial freedom for her own research, but the admission is also an important honour that enables exchange with other excellent young researchers.

News Archive of General and Historical Comparative Linguistics

• Bonmann, Svenja and Simon Fries. 2025. Linguistic evidence suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language. Transactions of the Philological Society.
• Fries, Simon, Svenja Bonmann, Jakob Halfmann & Natalie Korobzow. 2025. Observations on Lines 1–3 of the Gāndhārī Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN IV). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 175(1). 137–161.
• Coenen, Pascal. 2025 [2023]. Rigvedic báḍ: A presentative particle. Historische Sprachforschung, 136, 21-50.
• Bonmann, Svenja. 2024. Zum Ursprung des sog. ā-Konjunktivs des Latino-Faliskischen, Sabellischen und Venetischen. Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache 100(2), 246–287.
• Suter, Edgar 2024. Benefactive constructions: A comparative study of the Huon Peninsula languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 42. 128–202.
• Hill, Eugen, Simon Fries, Natalie Korobzow, Laura Günther & Svenja Bonmann. 2024. Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto‑Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word‑Final Consonants. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 6(2), 216–293.
• Wiemer, Björn, Eugen Hill, Daniel Kölligan & Jan-Niklas Linnemeier. 2024. Between the birth and death of future tenses. Related languages as a natural lab for research into grammatical change (LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 58). München: LINCOM EUROPA.
• Fries, Simon and Natalie Korobzow. 2024. On the dating of sound changes and its implications for language relationship. The case of Proto-Yeniseian *p- > Ket h-, Yugh f-. Diachronica 41(4). 525–555. (Online first).
• Coenen, Pascal. 2024. Non-canonical quantification in Old Persian: The adverb vasai̯. Folia Linguistica.
• Bonmann, Svenja, Sonja Riesberg & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2024. Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages. Linguistic Typology.