Elisabeth Rieken

Elisabeth Rieken (* 1965 in Gießen ) is a German linguist and professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Rieken studied comparative linguistics at the University of Hamburg and at the Ruhr University in Bochum , there among others with Erich Neu .

In 1996 she received her doctorate in Bochum with her dissertation "Investigations into the nominal stem formation of the Hittite". Between 1996 and 2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin and at times at Cornell University in New York. She qualified as a professor in 2001 with a thesis on “Conditional sentences, irrelevance conditionalies and concessive sentences in Old Irish”. From 2001 she was a lecturer at University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies .

Since 2002 she has held a professorship in the field of comparative and general linguistics in Marburg . One of her main research interests is the Hittite language .

In 2019 Rieken was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.

Monographs

Investigations on the nominal stem formation of the Hittite (StBoT 44), Wiesbaden 1999 [= dissertation 1996].
The conditional clauses, irrelevance conditionalia and concessive clauses of Old Irish (Studies and Texts on Celtology 10), Münster: Nodus 2012. [= Habilitation thesis 2001].
Introduction to the Hittite language and writing (textbooks of oriental languages 2) (with the help of Ute Gradmann and Jürgen Lorenz), Münster: Ugarit-Verlag 2012.

Co-edits

Pragmatic categories. Form, function and diachrony. Files from the working conference of the Indo-European Society from September 24 to 26, 2007 in Marburg. Edited by E. Rieken and P. Widmer. Wiesbaden: Reichert 2009.
Ex Anatolia Lux. Anatolian and Indo-European studies in honor of H. Craig Melchert on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, edited by R. Kim, N. Oettinger, E. Rieken and M. Weiss, Ann Arbor / New York : Beech Stave, 2010.
Investigationes Anatolicae: Commemorative publication for Erich Neu, edited by Jörg Klinger, Elisabeth Rieken and Christel Rüster, Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 2010.
The "Tawagalawa Letter". Complaints about Piyamaradu. A new edition. Edited by Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer and Elisabeth Rieken, De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-057551-4