Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication

Robin Meyer, Assistant Professor in Historical Linguistics, University of Lausanne

Robin Meyer has been Assistant Professor in Historical Linguistics at the University of Lausanne since 2020. He completed his doctorate on language contact between West Middle Iranian and Classical Armenian at Oxford in 2017, following which he held the positions of Diebold Research Associate in Comparative Philology and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. Since 2019 he has also been a member of the Council of the Philological Society.

1. Introduction
2. Linguistic evidence for Iranian influence on Armenian
3. Socio-historical evidence for Iranian influence on Armenian
4. Morphosyntactic alignment
5. The syntax of the Armenian perfect: A corpus analysis
6. Other cases of Iranian-Armenian pattern replication
7. Parthian-Armenian language contact and its historical context
8. Conclusions
Appendix: Historical morphology of the Armenian -eal participle