Projects per year
Personal profile
Memberships
Wirkliches Mitglied der ÖAW
Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
Mitglied der Academia Europaea
Coaffiliations
Director of the Academy Project "Turfan Studies" of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Science and Humanities
Research interests
Indo-European linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Semantics)
Comparative grammar of Tocharian
Comparative grammar of Indo-Iranian
Tocharian philology
Vedic philology
History of Comparative Philology
External positions
Project Director, Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
2017 → 2022
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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EurAsia: EurAsian Transformations
Malzahn, M., Rapp, C., Schmitt, O., Rollinger, R., Krstic, T., Pohl, W. & Kellner, B.
1/10/23 → 30/09/28
Project: Research funding
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How language shapes perception and cognition: A contrastive study of space and evidentiality in German and Korean
Ansorge, U., Choi, S., Gragossian-Florianz, B., Schmidinger, S. & Malzahn, M.
1/06/16 → 30/09/21
Project: Research funding
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Exploring an extinct society through the lens of Habitus-Field theory and the Tocharian text corpus
Wieczorek, O. & Malzahn, M., 4 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, 1, 56.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
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New Light on Vedic rodasī ‘Heaven and Earth’
Malzahn, M., 2022, Connecting the Art, Literature, and Religion of South and Central Asia: Studies in Honour of Monika Zin. Konczak-Nagel, I., Hiyama, S. & Klein, A. (eds.). New Delhi: DEV Publishers & Distributors, p. 247-250Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
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Tocharian säl- ‘fly, throw’—Unsafe at Any Speed
Malzahn, M., 2022, Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R.Hale. Grestenberger, L., Reiss, C., Fellner, H. A. & Pantillon, G. Z. (eds.). Beech Stave Press, p. 249-261Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
Prizes
Activities
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The Tarim Region as Borderlands
Melanie Malzahn (Speaker) & Hannes Fellner (Speaker)
5 Sept 2024Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road
Melanie Malzahn (Organiser), Hannes Fellner (Organiser), Angelo Mascheroni (Organiser), Viktoria Reiter (Organiser), Robert Rollinger (Organiser), Gabriel Zacharie Pantillon (Contributor), Leonard Langer Gethin (Contributor), Louis Falkenstein (Contributor), Preston Norris (Contributor) & Jeanette Kilicci (Contributor)
4 Sept 2024 → 7 Sept 2024Activity: Academic events › Organisation of ...
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univie: Summer School Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road
Melanie Malzahn (Organiser), Hannes Fellner (Organiser), Angelo Mascheroni (Organiser), Xun Gong (Contributor) & Viktoria Reiter (Organiser)
19 Aug 2024 → 30 Aug 2024Activity: Academic events › Organisation of ...
Press/Media
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Aussterben ist ein natürlicher Prozess
23/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Von alten Sprachen an der buddhistischen Seidenstraße
23/04/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Sprache als Spiegel der Kulturen
3/04/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities