Melanie Malzahn

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Melanie Malzahn (born 1973 in Hamburg) is a German professor of Indo-European studies at the University of Vienna specializing in the history of the Tocharian languages.[1]

Biography

Between 1992 and 1999, Malzahn studied

UCLA, and Harvard University.[1] In 2009 she received her habilitation in Indo-European linguistics for a book on the Tocharian verbal system.[1][2] In 2012 she was appointed to the professorship of comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of Vienna.[1]

Honours and awards

Malzahn is an elected member of several prestigious scholarly associations. In 2013 she was elected as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and since 2015 she has been a full member.[2][3] In 2014 she was elected member of the Academia Europaea.[4] Since 2020 she has been a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig.[5]

Research

Alongside the Tocharian languages, Malzahn has published broadly across comparative Indo-European studies, including work on Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Old Irish, early Germanic, and Etruscan.[4]

Her 2010 monograph on the Tocharian verbal system, based on her habilitation thesis and running to over a thousand pages, has been praised as a

magnum opus that is likely to be the standard reference work on its subject matter for many years to come.[6]

Selected publications

  • Malzahn, Melanie. 1999. Die nominalen Flexionsendungen des idg. Duals (The nominal inflectional endings of the Indo-European dual). Historische Sprachforschung/Historical Linguistics 112 (2), 204–226.
  • Malzahn, Melanie. 2010. The Tocharian verbal system. Leiden: Brill.
  • Malzahn, Melanie. 2011. Speaking on tongue: the Tocharian B nouns with an oblique singular in -a. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 12, 83–109.
  • Malzahn, Melanie. 2012. Position matters: The placement of clitics in metrical texts of Tocharian B. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 13, 163–162.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Neue Professuren im März 2012: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Melanie Malzahn". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Academia Europaea: Melanie Malzahn CV". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  3. ^ "ÖAW: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Melanie Malzahn". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Academia Europaea: Melanie Malzahn". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Gelehrtenporträt Prof. Dr. Melanie Malzahn (YouTube)". Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  6. ^ Peyrot, Michaël 2013. Review of Melanie Malzahn (2010), The Tocharian Verbal System. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14, 213–259.
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