Matthew Scarborough

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My main research focuses on the history of the Greek language from Proto-Indo-European to the classical Greek dialects and theoretical problems in and practical applications of phylogenetic methods in historical linguistics.

More broadly, my research interests include:

• Greek philology and linguistics from all periods
• Indo-European comparative linguistics and philology (especially of the Hellenic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian and Armenian sub-branches)
• Indo-European lexicography and etymology
• Language and Society in Mediterranean Antiquity
• Language contact and historical sociolinguistics

In conjunction with my interests in Indo-European and Mediterranean antiquity, I also maintain an interest in Egyptian and Coptic philology and linguistics, including Egyptian-Greek language contact.

Selected publications

1. Published

   The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification

   Scarborough, Matthew, 28 Apr 2023, Leiden & Boston: Brill. 395 p. (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics, Vol. 26).

   Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

Selected activities

1. The Proto-Greek Labiovelars: An examination of an isogloss in the context of Ancient Greek dialect geography

   Scarborough, Matthew (Invited speaker)

   19 May 2023

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

2. Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, καὶ ἀργυρέας ἀσάμινθους: Trying to make sense of the substrate vocabulary in the Ancient Greek lexicon

   Scarborough, Matthew (Speaker)

   3 Jun 2022

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

3. The IE-CoR Dataset: Origins, Evolution, and New Approaches to Lexical Cognacy Databases

   Scarborough, Matthew (Speaker)

   22 Mar 2022

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution