Linguist Dr Eystein Dahl is conducting a research project at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures entitled "Alignment, Subjecthood, and Transitivity Prominence in Indo-European." The project is funded by the NCN POLONEZ BIS programme and a prestigious European Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.
Dr Dahl's research interests revolve around the history of Indo-European languages. The scientist investigates sentence structures of languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin and Hittite. As part of the project, he will extend this spectrum to include further languages: Old Church Slavonic, Old Albanian, Old Lithuanian and Armenian.
Dr Eystein Dahl has previously worked at the Universities of Bergen, Tromsø in Norway and Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has also lectured and taught courses at various universities in Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK. Dr Dahl has numerous academic achievements, including books, articles, conference presentations and keynote lectures. Recently, he was appointed as editor-in-chief of the Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, a position he will hold from January 2025. He came to Poznan courtesy of Prof. Krzysztof Stroński, with whom he established a research collaboration many years ago.
- "We met Dr Dahl a decade ago at a conference in the Netherlands and have been working successfully together ever since. He has an incredible ability to attract curious, talented people," says Prof Krzysztof Stroński. - "Over the past year, we have been hosting researchers from Italy, Iran and Germany at the Institute of Oriental Studies, and they have come to Poznan to join us in the work on the project," he adds.
photo by Władysław Gardasz