Polonez Bis -ASTRAPIE

Eystein Dahl is Principal Investigator of the ASTRAPIE project. He holds a PhD from the University of Oslo (2008), and obtained his habilitation degree (general and historical linguistics) as associate professor in 2013 and as full professor in 2019, both from the Italian Ministry of Universities and Education (MIUR). During his PhD track, he was a visiting doctoral student at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Eva Tichy), at Stanford University (Paul Kiparsky) and at Università degli studi di Pisa (Romano Lazzeroni (†)) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pier Marco Bertinetto). During the years 2009-2013 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the project Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in Typological Perspective (IECASTP) led by Jóhanna Barðdal and hosted by the University of Bergen. He has since held positions as Head of Department at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and as visiting professor in Comparative and Historical Linguistics at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. His research interests include comparative-historical morphosyntax, Indo-European linguistics, general linguistics, quantitative corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and comparative Semitic philology. A list of his publications and works in progress is found here.

Krzysztof Stroński is a university professor at the Chair of Oriental Studies and head of the Department of South Asian Studies. His main areas of research interest are: historical and typological linguistics with a focus on historical syntax of Indo-Aryan languages. He has carried out field work in Northern India in Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and in Uttar Pradesh.

Tania Ahmad is a doctoral student participating in the ASTRAPIE project. In 2020, she completed her undergraduate studies in English Literature and Linguistics at Bahauddin Zakariya University. Subsequently, she earned her master’s degree in Linguistics and Literature: English from Universiteit Gent in 2023. During her master’s studies, she had the privilege of participating in an Erasmus mobility program at the University of Groningen in the second semester. Her research affinities center around Historical Morphosyntax, Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics. Beyond her academic endeavors, she has a robust background in teaching, having served at Lahore Grammar School from 2020 to 2022, and subsequently at the International School of Ghent in 2023 as a part of her professional experience.