Historical-Comparative Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

E-Mail: simon.fries[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Areas in research

• Typology of language change
• Diachronic as well as historical and comparative linguistics, especially Indo-European Linguistics
• Phonological, morphological and syntactic change
• Interaction between prosody and syntax, especially in Old Indo-Aryan
• Classical Philology
• Language philosophy