Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Institut für Linguistik
D-50923 Köln

E-Mail: rginevr1(at)uni-koeln.de

Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre

• Historical Linguistics and Etymology
• Comparative Indo-European Poetics, Mythology and Religion
• Old Norse and Germanic Language History, Onomastics, Poetics, Mythology and Religion
• Onomastics (Theonyms and Anthroponyms)
• Word Formation (Derivation and Composition) and Historical Semantics
• Phraseology, Poetic Language and Semiotics
• Languages and Literatures: Germanic (focus on Old Norse, Old English), Ancient Greek, Italic (Latin), Indo Iranian (Vedic and Epic Sanskrit, Avestan), Anatolian (Hittite)