Papers presented
Michiel de Vaan:
Michiel de Vaan. “Issues with Albanian verbal endings containing j”. Basel, International Workshop New Advances in Albanian Philology and Historical Linguistics. 29 September 2025.
Michiel de Vaan. “Wunschzettel für die albanische Philologie und Sprachgeschichte”. ÖAW, Forschungsbereich Balkanforschung, Universität Wien. 21 January 2025.
Michiel de Vaan. «When did Albanian become Albanian?”. Invited keynote speech at the International Workshop “Albanian among the Indo-European Languages: origins and antiquity”, Tirana, 4–5 November 2024.
Michiel de Vaan. "Das lateinische Erbe des Albanischen". 17 January 2024. Invited talk, Universität Saarbrücken, Lehrstuhl für Romanistik.
Michiel de Vaan. "Historical Phonetics and the Dialect Split between Geg and Tosk.” 23 August 2023. Invited plenary talk, Pristhina, 41st Summer School in Albanian Studies.
Michiel de Vaan. "Parasynthetic verbs with a nasal prefix in Old Albanian and Old Romanian.” 22 April 2023. At: 7th German-Albanian Cultural Studies Conference. Pommelsbrunn, D, 21-22 April 2023.
Michiel de Vaan. "Altalbanisch vetë: Distribution und Etymologie." 26 January 2023. Universität München, Dept. Vergleichende und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft sowie Albanologie.
Michiel de Vaan. “Uralbanisch, was kann oder soll das heissen?” 25 January 2023. Universität München, Dept. Vergleichende und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft sowie Albanologie.
Michiel de Vaan & Florian Sommer. "Semantics and development of the verbal prefix ëm-, ën- in Old Albanian.” 7 November 2022. 12th Day of Swiss Linguistics, Lausanne University.
Sergio Neri
Sergio Neri. "Origin and Development of the Albanian Demonstratives”. ICHL Heidelberg, September 5th, 2023. Workshop on the Grammaticalization of demonstratives.
Sergio Neri. "Zu alb. bathë ‚Ackerbohne‘ und gr. phakós ‚Linse‘: Substratwörter oder indogermanisches Erbe?” 7th German-Albanian Cultural Studies Conference The Albanian Language Area and its Surroundings during Antiquity to the High Middle Ages. April 21st - 22nd, 2023, Pommelsbrunn (D).
Alexander Robert Herren:
Alexander Robert Herren. “(Old) Albanian Deadjectival Verbs” 10 March 2023. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Insitute of Iranian Studies.
Gerard Spaans:
Gerard Spaans. "Das Albanische: Sprachvorstellung." 22 November 2025. Invited talk at a birthday party, Wettingen (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Revisiting possible Greek - Albanian shared innovations in the 1st millennium CE." 6 November 2025. Presentation at the conference Revisiting the milestones in the history of Greek, Thessaloniki (Greece).
Gerard Spaans. "Adjectives in Proto-Indo-European and (Old) Albanian." Guest talk with Borislav Petrov at the Colloquia Indoeuropaea Serdicae, 4 November 2025, Sofia (Bulgaria).
Gerard Spaans. "Letërkëmbimi midis Gustav Meyer-it dhe Franc Mikloshiç-it." Presentation with Rina Asani and Doruntina Gagica at the conferenceStudimet albanistike te Sllavët e Jugut, 28 October 2025.Prishtina (Kosovo).
Gerard Spaans. "Zwischen Mythen und Fakten; eine kurzgefasste albanische Sprachgeschichte." Guest lecture for the Albanian Student Association Bern (ASAB), 22 October 2025. Bern (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "The origin of the Albanian feminine plural ending -e and some thoughts on the indefinite endings." 29 September 2025. Presentation at the conferenceWorkshop: New advances in Albanian philology and historical linguistics, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "When innovation cannot prevent the collapse of the system: the case of the ablative third person pronouns of Old Albanian." 17 September 2025. Presentation at the conference Indogermanische Arbeitstagung, Prague (Czech Republic).
Gerard Spaans. "Use and history of the ablative pronouns si and so in Old Geg." 26 August 2025. Presentation at the Seminari ndërkombëtar për gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën shqiptare, Prishtina (Kosovo).
Gerard Spaans. "Introduction to Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony." 21 July 2025 – 1 August 2025. Course taught at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, Leiden (The Netherlands).
Gerard Spaans. "Locating language contact between Ancient Greek and Pre-Proto-Albanian in time and space". 27 June 2025. Poster presentation at the conference11th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL), Nice (France).
Gerard Spaans. "The origin of the feminine plural ending -e in Albanian heterogenous nouns." 29 May 2025. Presentation at the conference 9. Indogermanisches Forschungskolloquium, Pisa (Italy).
Gerard Spaans. "The prehistory of Proto-Indo-European ablaut and laryngeals." 23 May 2025; 6 June 2025. Guest classes at the seminar Topics in Historical Linguistics II: Ablaut and laryngeals, Thessaloniki (Greece).
Gerard Spaans. "A brief history of the Albanian language." 15 April 2025. Guest talk at the Colloquia Indoeuropaea Serdicae, Sofia (Bulgaria).
Gerard Spaans. "Back to Germanic". 2 April 2025. Guest class for the seminar History of the English Language, Thessaloniki (Greece).
Gerard Spaans. "Interaction between Pre-Proto-Albanians and their landscape in Antiquity: what can we tell from linguistic data?" 4 December 2024. Presentation at the conference Graduiertentagung Departement Altertumswissenschaften, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "A comparison of current koinēization processes in Flemish Dutch, Swiss German and Kosovar Albanian." 9 November 2024. Presentation at the conferenceInternational Conference on the Koine, koines and the formation of Standard Modern Greek, Thessaloniki (Greece).
Gerard Spaans. "The incorporation of loanwords from the Latin third declension into the Proto-Albanian nominal system." 18 October 2024. Presentation at the conference Balkan Parallels - 30 years of Balkan Studies at the University of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia (Bulgaria).
Gerard Spaans. "A comparative-linguistic view on the Proto-Albanian societal role of the grandfather in Late Antiquity." 19 September 2025. Presentation at the conferenceGrandparents in the Ancient World, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Diving deeper into the history of Albanian liqen 'lake'." 28 August 2024. Presentation at the Seminari ndërkombëtar për gjuhën, letërsinë dhe kulturën shqiptare, Prishtina (Kosovo).
Gerard Spaans. "Diachronical inconsistency of Albanian plural formations." 17 June 2024. Presentation at the conference 8. Indogermanisches Forschungskolloquium, Marburg (Germany).
Gerard Spaans. "The history of Albanian plurals: an interplay of sound changes and analogy." 15 June 2024. Presentation at the conference SpraWIEN, Vienna (Austria).
Gerard Spaans. "Variations in Albanian plural formations." 17 May 2024. Presentation at the HPSL Doctoral Colloquium, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Albanisch in der Schweiz." 25 April 2024. Guest class at the Seminar Herkunftssprachen in Europa, Bern (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Language contact between Ancient Greek and Pre-Proto-Albanian." 10 April 2024. Presentation at the Research Colloquium: Linguistics, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Sprachkontakt zwischen dem Altgriechischen und dem Voruralbanischen." 9 April 2024. Presentation at the seminar: Das Albanische: Sprachtyp, Sprachgeschichte, Sprachkultur, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "How deep into language history can we dig using the comparative method? Case: Indo-European." 4 April 2024. Presentation at the seminarForschungsseminar: Language Evolution, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "The etymological history of the Greek loanword liqen-i 'lake'; sound developments, analogy and ghost forms." 30 January 2024. Presentation at the conference International workshop: Albanian language history in its Balkan linguistic context, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Albanian." 9 January 2024. Guest lecture for Studievereniging T.W.I.S.T., Leiden (The Netherlands).
Gerard Spaans. "Status Quo der Sprachpolitik in Albanien und Kosovo." 30 November 2023. Presentation with Amina Roçi at the seminar Sprachsituationen auf dem Balkan, Bern (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Die Vorgeschichte des Slawischen." 2 November 2023. Presentation at the seminar Sprachsituationen auf dem Balkan, Bern (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Evaluating possible Ancient Greek loanwords in Albanian." 20 October 2023. Poster presentation at the conference HPSL Day 2023, Basel (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Albanisch." Presentation with Amina Roçi at the seminar Sprachsituationen auf dem Balkan, 5 October 2023. Bern (Switzerland).
Gerard Spaans. "Language contact between Greek and Albanian in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages." 13 April 2023. Presentation at the event Project presentation: The Albanian Language in Antiquity (ALIA), Basel (Switzerland)
Gerard Spaans. "The etymological history of the Greek loanword liqen-i `lake´; sound developments, analogy and ghost forms." 30 January 2024. Internation Workshop Albanian language history in its Balkan linguistic context, Universität Basel.
Gerard Spaans. "Evaluating possible Ancient Greek loanwords in Albanian [poster]." 20 October 2023. HPSL Day 2023, Universität Basel.
Publications
Dr. Michiel de Vaan
| (2025) | "The Kelmendi dialect from Slavonia in 1782 and 1839. Transliteration and concordance." In: Ledio Hala, Anila Omari and Shaban Sinani (eds.), Studime albanologjike në indoeuropianistikë, filologji dhe gjuhësi kontakti. Vëllim në nderim të prof. Bardhyl Demirajt. Tirana: Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë, 326–363. |
| (2024) | "The accusative singular of demonstratives and interrogatives in Albanian." Indo-European Linguistics 12, 225–253. |
| (2024) | "Identifiers and reflexives in Old Albanian: vetë ‘self’, vetëhe ‘oneself’, and their derivatives." Indo-European Linguistics (published ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10031 |
| (2024) | "Verbal derivation with a nasal prefix in Old Albanian.” 2024. In: B. Demiraj (ed.), The Albanian Language Area and its Surroundings from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages. Proceedings of the 7th German-Albanian Cultural Studies Conference (21.–22. April 2023, Hubmersberg/Pommelsbrunn). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 167–180. |
| (2020) | Brian Joseph & Michiel de Vaan: Old Albanian – Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Morphosyntactic structures.13 Online lessons. In: Saverio Dalpedri, Götz Keydana, and Stavros Skopeteas (Hrsg.), Glottothèque: Ancient Indo-European Grammars online (electronic resource). Göttingen: University of Göttingen. DOI:doi.org/10.5446/49068 bis doi.org/10.5446/49080. |
| (2017) | The Phonology of Albanian. In: M. Fritz, B. Joseph & J. Klein (Hrsg.), HSK – Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Volume 3, 1732–1749. |
| (2015) | The Old Albanian present and imperfect in -ën. In: B. Demiraj (Hrsg.),Sprache und Kultur der Albaner. Zeitliche und räumliche Dimensionen. Akten der 5. Deutsch-albanischen kulturwissenschaftlichen Tagung (5.–8. Juni 2014, Buçimas bei Pogradec, Albanien). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 150–174. |
| (2010) | Old Albanian krautyrë and nautyrë. In: B. Demiraj (Hrsg.), Wir sind die Deinen. Studien zur albanischen Sprache, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, dem Gedenken an Martin Camaj (1925-1992) gewidmet. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 231–237. |
| (2005) | PIE *e in Albanian. Die Sprache 44/1 [2004], 70–85. |
| (2015) | Stefan Schumacher und Joachim Matzinger: Die Verben des Altalbanischen In: Kratylos 60, 1–17. |
| (2010) | Rexhep Ismajli: Pjetër Budi: Poezi. Prishtinë: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës. 2006. In: Kratylos 55 (2010), 212-216. |
| (2010) | Bardhyl Demiraj: Dictionarium Latino-Epiroticum (Romae 1635) per R.D. Franciscum Blanchum. Shkodër: Botime Françeskane. 2008. In: Kratylos 55 (2010), 212-216. |
| (2010) | Anila Omari: Pjetër Bogdani: Cuneus Prophetarum (Çeta e Profetëve). Botim kritik. Tiranë: Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë, Instituti i gjuhësisë dhe i letërsisë. 2005. In: Kratylos 55 (2010), 212-216. |
| (2010) | Bardhyl Demiraj, Gjon P. Nikollë Kazazidhe “Doktrina” e tij. Prishtinë: Akademia e shkencave dhe e arteve e Kosovës. 2006. In: Kratylos 55 (2010), 212-216. |
| (2010) | Jorgji Gjinari, Bahri Beci, Gjovalin Shkurtaj, Xheladin Gosturani, in collaboration with Anastas Dodi, Menella Totoni, Atlasi Dialektologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe. Two volumes. Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë, Instituti i gjuhësisë dhe i letërsisë / Università degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale / Dipartimento di Studi dell’Europa Orientale. 2007, 2008. In: Kratylos 55 (2010), 212-216. |
| (2009) | Bardhyl Demiraj (Hrsg.): Nach 450 Jahren. Buzukus “Missale” und seine Rezeption in unserer Zeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007. In: Kratylos 54, 200–202. |
| (2007) | Monica Genesin & Joachim Matzinger (Hrsg.): Albanologische und balkanologische Studien. Festschrift für Wilfried Fiedler. Hamburg, Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2005. In: Kratylos 52, 206–209. |
| (1999) | Bardhyl Demiraj: Sistemi i numerimit të gjuhës shqipe: vështrim diakronik. In: Kratylos 44, 87–93. |
| (1997) | Una gramática de la lengua albanesa. [Rezensionsaufsatz zu: M. Sanz Ledesma: El Albanés. Gramática, historia, textos. Madrid]. Tempus. Revista de actualización científica 17, 57–63. |
PD Dr. Sergio Neri
| (2024) | "Zu alb. bathë ‚Ackerbohne‘ und gr. phakós ‚Linse‘: Substratwörter oder indogermanisches Erbe?" In: The Albanian Language Area and ist Surroundings from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages. Proceedings of the 7th German-Albanian Cultural Studies Conference (21.-22.April 2023, Hubmersberg/Pommelsbrunn). Herausgegeben von Bardhyl Demiraj. Albanische Forschungen, Bd. 50. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2024, S. 181-208. |
| (2024) | In the press: 'Alb. burrë ‘(Ehe-)Mann’: Ein etymologischer Versuch'. To appear in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft (2024). |
| (2021) | Etymologischer Teil folgender Lemmata aus: Bardhyl Demiraj, Olav Hackstein, Sergio Neri & Anila Omari. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen (DPEWA). München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2021. |
| (2022) | Sergio Neri. Zur Wortbildung und Etymologie von aalb. (i) rī ‚jung; neu‘, kā ‚haben‘, kruo ‚Quelle; Brunnen‘, zẽ ‚ergreifen‘ und ȳll ‚Stern‘’, in: Akte të Kuvendit Ndërkombëtar të Studimeve Albanologjike. Vëllimi II: Gjuhësi dhe antropologji. Përgatitën botimin: Shaban Sinani, Pëllumb Xhufi. Aktet e Kuvendit Ndërkombëtar të Studimeve Albanologjike botohen nën kujdesin e akad. Skënder Gjinushi, Kryetar i Akademisë së Shkencave. Tiranë: Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë 2022, S. 11-28. |
| (2022) | Sergio Neri. Alb. gur ‚Stein‘ und uridg. *gu̯reh2- ‚schwer, massiv sein‘. In: EQO DUENOSIO. Studi offerti a Luciano Agostiniani, a cura di Alberto Calderini e Riccardo Massarelli. Ariodante – Linguistica ed epigrafia dell’Italia antica 1. Perugia: Università degli Studi di Perugia 2022, S. 731-750. |
| (2020) | Sergio Neri. Zur Etymologie von altalbanisch nja / një zet ‘zwanzig’. In: Altalbanische Schriftkultur – aus der Perspektive der historischen Lexikographie und der Philologie der Gegenwart. Akten der 6. Deutsch-albanischen kulturwissenschaftlichen Tagung (27. September 2019, Buçimas bei Pogradec, Albanien). Herausgegeben von Bardhyl Demiraj. Albanische Forschungen 44. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2020, S. 33-48. |
Gerard Spaans
| (2024) | Gerard Spaans. “Ancient Greek loanwords in Albanian: what do we know and what remains to be done?” In: Linguistique Balkanique 43.2, 150-163. |
| (2024) | Gerard Spaans. “The incorporation of loanwords from the Latin third declension into the Proto-Albanian nominal system.” In: БАЛКАНСКИ ПАРАЛЕЛИ / Balkan Parallels, 153-161. |
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