Dr. Milad Abedi, BSc MA
Universität Innsbruck – Ágnes-Heller-Haus
Innrain 52a
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Zimmernummer 05E030 (5. Stock)
Tel.: +43 (0)512/507-41028
E-Mail: Milad.Abedi@uibk.ac.at
Education
- PhD in Linguistics, University of Zurich, 2025
- Visiting PhD Candidate, University of Vienna, 2024
- PhD Candidate in Linguistics, INaLCO, Paris, 2021–2024
- MA in Ancient Languages and Cultures of Iran, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, 2019
- BSc in Microbiology, Azad University, 2015
Academic Positions
- Postdoctoral Researcher, The Pahlavi Papyri of the Austrian National Library – The Most Important Archival Remnant of the Sasanian Empire, University of Innsbruck, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, 2025–present
- PhD Position, SNSF Project Sino-Indo-Iranica Rediviva – Early Eurasian Migratory Terms in Chinese and Their Cultural Implications, University of Zurich, Department of Sinology, 2020–2024
Teaching
- Spring Semester 2022 – Zoroastrian Middle Persian (Pahlavi) I: A Course on Language, Script, and Pre-Islamic Iran, Institute of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
Research Interests
- Pahlavi Papyri
- Old and Middle Iranian linguistics
- Lexical contacts in ancient Iran
Selected Publications
- 2024
- "The Emergence of Arabic Scientific Terminology at the Eastern Contact Zone: Calque and Loanword in Early ʿAbbāsid Time (750–800 CE)," Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 78(4): 705–717
- "Following the Donkey’s Trail (Part II): A Linguistic and Archaeological Study on the Introduction of Domestic Donkeys to China" (with Samira Müller, Wolfgang Behr, Patrick Wertmann), Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 6(2): 294–358
- "Following the Donkey’s Trail (Part I): A Linguistic and Archaeological Study on the Introduction of Domestic Donkeys to China" (with Samira Müller, Wolfgang Behr, Patrick Wertmann), Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 6(1): 104–144
- 2021
- "Secondary Kinship Terms: A Lexical Analysis from Indo-European to New Iranian" (with Mohsen Mahmoodi), in Jafari-Dehaghi, Mahmoud, Iranian Studies Series, vol. 5: 419–458, Encyclopedia of the Great Islam, Tehran
- "The Survey of Two Metonymic Phrases of Achaemenid Elamite" (with Sina Abbaslou), Journal of Ancient Culture and Languages, 2(2): 45–54.
- "On the Later Phase of Elamite-Iranian Language Contact," in Garnier, Romain, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 164, 1–25, University of Innsbruck.