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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesHistorical Comparative Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

Simon Fries, M.A.

Faculty of Classics

University of Oxford

https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/people/simon-fries-0

E-Mail: simon.fries[at]classics.ox.ac.uk

Curriculum Vitae

since 01/2025Researcher in Comparative Philology, Faculty of Classics and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
01/2021–12/2024Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the project B08 "Non-canonical alignment and agreement patterns in East Baltic" of the CRC 1252 on Prominence in Language at the University of Cologne
since 2020Doctoral student in Historical and Comparative Linguistics, University of Cologne
04/2020–12/2020Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) in the Emmy-Noether Research Group on Non-Hierarchicality in Grammar led by Uta Reinöhl, first at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, then at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2018–2020Master of Arts in Historical and Comparative Linguistics (also partly comprising Classical Philology, Archaeology and Epigraphy) and Philosophy at the University of Cologne
Title of the thesis: Lateinische Negationen sprachhistorisch und sprachvergleichend [Latin negations from a diachronic and comparative perspective]
05/2017–03/2020first Student Assistant (Studentische Hilfskraft), then Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) in project B03 on the Diachrony of Prediaction in Old Indo-Aryan of the CRC 1252 on Prominence in Language at the University of Cologne
04/2019–07/2019Student tutorial relating to an interdisciplnary seminar concerning the presentation of current research topics of the Center for Information, Language and Philosophie (CLIP) at the University of Cologne
2015–2018Bachelor of Arts in Historical and Comparative Linguistics (also partly comprising General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Archaeology) and Philosophy at the University of Cologne
Title of the thesis: Altindischer Auslautsandhi und die ruki-Regel [Old Indo-Aryan external sandhi and the ruki-rule]

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