Dr Victoria Fendel

Research Associate in Historical Linguistics (Crossreads)

victoria.fendel@classics.ox.ac.uk

I completed an MA in Classical Greek and Ancient Near East Studies at the University of Basel (funded by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) before moving to the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall) for my DPhil on language contact between post-classical Greek and Coptic (funded by a Clarendon Scholarship). Subsequently, I undertook an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse) with a focus on French linguistics (funded by the AHRC). For the. past four years my research has been supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.

I am interested in language contact, especially between Greek and Egyptian (Coptic), syntax, especially the interface between syntax and semantics, and the application of general linguistic concepts to corpus languages.

Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt

Oxford Classical Monographs (2022)

Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt.

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