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Andreas Willi

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Andreas Jonathan Willi FBA (born 17 December 1972 in Altstätten) is a Swiss linguist, philologist, and classicist. He is currently the Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He is one of the editors of Glotta [de]. In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[1] In 2019, Willi was awarded the Humboldt Prize.[2]

Academic career

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Willi studied Classics and Slavonic Languages and Literature at the University of Basel (lic.phil. in 1997), and comparative philology at the Universities of Lausanne, Michigan, and Fribourg (lic.phil in 1998).[3][better source needed] He completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in 2001 with a thesis on The languages of Aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in Classical Attic Greek under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies. During his time at Oxford, he was a member of Corpus Christi College.[4] Between 2001 and 2004, he was a lecturer for Latin and Greek philology at the University of Basel, before joining the Istituto Svizzero di Roma [de; fr] as a researcher. He was called to the chair of comparative philology at Oxford in 2005.

Selected publications

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  • Willi, Andreas (2002). The Language of Greek Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Willi, Andreas (2003). The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Willi, Andreas (2008). Sikelismos: Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien. Bern: Schwabe Verlag.
  • Willi, Andreas; Probert, Philomen (2012). Laws and Rules in Indo-European. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Willi, Andreas (2018). Origins of the Greek Verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Andreas Willi FBA – The British Academy". Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  2. ^ "Professor Andreas Willi awarded Humboldt Prize – Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford". Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  3. ^ "Willi, Prof. Andreas Jonathan – UK Who's Who". doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U246847. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  4. ^ Willi, Andreas (2003). The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. vii.