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I am a linguist specializing in Slavic languages. My main research interests revolve around the question of how and why the Slavic languages came to be the way they are. In my PhD thesis I developed a model of the relative chronology of Proto-Slavic and Russian sound changes. In other works, I focus on the rise of new morphemes as a result of grammaticalization processes. Recently, I have become interested in the grammar of Slavic microlanguages, i.e., Slavic varieties apart from the major languages which are to some degree codified. These languages provide compelling cases for the study of the effects of language contact. In my habilitation thesis, I investigate (morpho-)syntactic phenomena in several of these languages. At the moment, I am working on the placement of pronominal clitics in the Slovenian dialect of Resia and in Sorbian. Another interest concerns the creation of electronic resources for the study of language. For instance, in cooperation with student assistants, I developed a digital version of the model elaborated in my PhD thesis. I also have a background in Slavic philology; for example, I have participated in editing Old Church Slavonic texts found in Saint Catherine’s monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in 1975.
from 02.2022 | Senior researcher (Oberassistent), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Zurich) |
02.2022-01.2023 | Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (UZH) |
Spring semester 2021 | Teaching assignment (two courses), Ludwig Maximilian University Munich |
08.2016-01.2022 | Research assistant, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (UZH) |
2015-2016 | Research assistant, Justus Liebig University Giessen |
2014-2015 | Employee at the interdisciplinary Centre of Image and Material Analysis in Cultural Heritage (CIMA) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) |
2013-2014 | Research assistant in the project The Enigma of the Sinaitic Glagolitic Tradition funded by the FWF (PI: Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, University of Vienna) |
2013-2014 | Research assistant in the project Die slavische Dioptra-Übersetzung funded by the FWF (PI: Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, University of Vienna) |
https://uzh.academia.edu/FlorianWandl
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian-Wandl
Vom Urindogermanischen zum Russischen: Eine Studie zum Lautwandel und seiner relativen Chronologie, University of Zurich (2020).
“‘Clitic climbing’ beim obersorbischen Reflexivum”, Sorbian Institute, Bautzen (09.07.2024).
“The system of pronominal clitics in the Slovenian dialect of Resia”, Slavic and East-European Lectures (SEELECTS), University of Ghent (16.05.2024).
“Die altkirchenslavischen sog. Medizinischen Blätter. Das älteste slavische Schriftdenkmal medizinischen Inhalts”, in the course “Altkirchenslavisch” led by Nikolay Hakimov at the Universitz of Bamberg (31.01.2024).
“The form otročęmь in the OCS Folia medicinalia”, Transfer and adaptation: languages and cultures in dialogue in the Balkans from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Times, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (24.-26.01.2024).
“Bemerkungen zum fünften Rezept der altkirchenslavischen Medizinischen Blätter”, Basler Arbeitskreis für Südosteuropa (BASO), University of Basel (26.05.2023).
“The oldest Slavic medical manuscript (3/N, Folia medicinalia)”, in the course “Old Church Slavic” led by Darya Kavitskaya at the University of California, Berkeley (31.10.2023, online).
“The subject-like characteristics of reflexive clitics in impersonal constructions: evidence from the Slovenian dialect of Resia”, 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (21.-25.08.2024, Universität Helsinki).
With Katarzyna Maria Prenner (University of Graz): “External influences and internal transfer: vowel reduction in Latin and Cyrillic Belarusian newspapers from the pre-orthographic period (1862-1915)”, 13th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (5.-7.06.2024, University of Zurich).
“Pronominal clitics in the Slovenian dialect of Resia”, Konstanz Linguistic Conference (KLC) (21.-22.-03.2024, University of Konstanz).
“Subject doubling in the Slovenian dialect of Resia”, Small languages on the big stage: Linguistic diversity in research, revitalisation, and policies. 29. LIPP Symposium. (07.-10.12.02023, LMU Munich).
“Bemerkungen zum 5. Rezept der altkirchenslavischen sog. Medizinischen Blätter”, 16. Tagung der Altslavistik (26-28.10.2023, University Giessen).
“Pronominal clitics in Resian”, 18th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) (24-26.08.2023, Bratislava).
With Thomas Olander (University of Copenhagen): “Relative chronology in historical linguistics: an introduction”, Relative Chronology in Historical Linguistics (29.-30.06.2023, University of Copenhagen).
With Thilo Thelitz (UZH): “ From book to graph: digitizing models of relative chronology”, Seminar: Relative Chronology in Historical Linguistics (29.-30.06.2023, University of Copenhagen).
SE Aspekt und Aktionsart in den slavischen Sprachen (Fall Semester 2024)
VO Grundlagen der slavistischen Sprachwissenschaft (Spring Semester 2024)
SE Dialekte des Bosnischen, Kroatischen, Montenegrinischen und Serbischen (Spring Semester 2024)
SE Analyse älterer süd-, west- und ostslavischer Texte (Fall Semester 2023)
UE Strukturkurs Ukrainisch (Spring Semester 2023)
SE Vergleichende slavische Sprachwissenschaft (Spring Semester 2023)
KO Kolloquium Slavistische Linguistik (Spring Semester 2023)
UE Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Fall Semester 2022)
SE/UE Slavische Kleinsprachen (Spring Semester 2022)
SE/UE Analyse älterer slavischer Texte (Spring Semester 2017, 2019, 2021)
UE Altkirchenslavisch (Spring Semester 2018, Fall Semester 2020, 2024)
KO Masterkolloquium: Slavische Sprachwissenschaft (Spring Semester 2019)
VO Die slavischen Sprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Fall Semester 2017, 2018)
SE/UE Zeugnisse früher slavischer Schriftlichkeit: Die Freisinger Denkmäler (Fall Semester 2016)
„Städte und ihre Sprache(n): Zagreb und Vilnius“, lecture series Mehrsprachigkeit in Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, organized by the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures (Spring Semester 2022 and 2023)
„Das Urslavische“, lecture series Kulturelle Grundlagen Osteuropas – Räume, Kontakte, Verflechtungen, organized by the History Department (Spring Semester 2022)
VO Einführung in das Altkirchenslavische (Spring Semester 2021)
UE Slavische Kleinsprachen (Spring Semester 2021)
UE Die slavischen Sprachen im historischen Vergleich (Spring Semester 2016)
SE Lektüre älterer slavischer Texte (Fall Semester 2015)