Robert Crellin

Research Fellow

BA, MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)

Robert Crellin is a historical linguist whose work focuses on the syntax and semantics of ancient languages, the structure of ancient writing systems, and computation approaches to language. He completed his PhD in Classics at Cambridge in 2012, where he wrote on the syntax and semantics of the perfect in Ancient Greek, especially its postclassical varieties. Robert’s subsequent research has encompassed analyses of Biblical Greek, including the translation of the Greek verb system in the early versions of the New Testament and the morphology of personal names. Between 2014 and 2016 Robert worked on the Greek Lexicon Project in Cambridge, now published as The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, where he was responsible for writing articles on prepositions.

Publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes:

Crellin, Robert S. D. & Thomas Jügel (eds.). 2020. Perfects in Indo‐European languages and beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 352). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.352. Joyce, Terry & Robert Crellin (eds.). 2019b. Writing systems: Past, present (... and future?) (Written Lan‐guage and Literacy, Special Issue 22:2). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2016b. The syntax and semantics of the perfect active in literary Koine Greek (Pub‐lications of the Philological Society 113). Chichester: Wiley‐Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12080. Articles and Chapters

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2020a. The perfect system in Ancient Greek. In Robert S. D. Crellin & Thomas Jügel (eds.), Perfects in Indo‐European languages and beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
352), 436–481. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.352.13cre.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2020b. The perfect system in Latin. In Robert S. D. Crellin & Thomas Jügel (eds.), Perfects in Indo‐European languages and beyond (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 352), 550–590.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.352.16cre.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2020c. What’s in a (personal) name? Morphology and identity in Jewish Greek literature in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. In Ilja Seržant & Dariya Rafiyenko (eds.), Postclassical
Greek: Intersections of linguistics and philology. De Gruyter Mouton. https://do.i.org/10.1515/9783110677522-011.

Crellin, Robert S. D. & Lucia Tamponi. 2020. Vowel quantity and quality in Neo‐Punic and Latin inscriptions from Africa and Sardinia. In Geoffrey Khan & Aaron Hornkohl (eds.), Studies in Semitic
vocalization and reading traditions. Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0207.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2019. Vowel‐writing in Punic: From morphography to phonography. In Terry Joyce & Robert Crellin (eds.), Writing systems: Past, present (... and future?) (Written Language and Literacy, Special Issue 22:2), 198–222. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00026.cre.

Joyce, Terry & Robert Crellin. 2019a. Introduction. In Terry Joyce & Robert Crellin (eds.), Writing sys‐tems: Past, present (... and future?) (Written Language and Literacy, Special Issue 22:2), 167–178. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.22.2.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2018b. Introduction to the Persian harmony of the Gospels. In M. Hassanabadi, R. Jahani & C. Jahani (eds.), A Unified Gospel in Persian (Studia Iranica Upsalensia 33), vii–xvii. Uppsala:Uppsala Universitet. https:// www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva23A1197345 &dswid=4520.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2016a. The semantics of the perfect in the Greek of the New Testament. In Steven E. Runge & Christopher J. Fresch (eds.), The Greek verb revisited, 430–457. Bellingham, Wash.: Lexham Press.

Crellin, Robert S. D. 2014. The Greek perfect through Gothic eyes: Evidence for the existence of a unitary semantic for the Greek perfect in New Testament Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 14(1).
https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01401002.

Works contributed to:

Diggle, James, Bruce Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver Simkin, Anne Thompson & Simon Westripp (eds.). 2021. The Cambridge Greek Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Forthcoming (at various stages of the publication process):

Crellin, Robert S. D. Forthc.(a). Mediopassive: 2. Hellenistic Greek. In Giorgos Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics. Leiden: Brill.

Crellin, Robert S. D. Forthc.(b). Negotiating Jewish identity through the (non‐)inflection of personal names: Evidence from the Greek of the New Testament. In Chiara Monaco & Rob Machado (eds.)
(Trends in Classics). De Gruyter Mouton.

Crellin, Robert S. D. Forthc.(c). Strategies in rendering the Greek aorist in the Latin New Testament tradition. In Tim Denecker, Mathieu Lamberigts, Gert Partoens, Pierre Swiggers & Toon Van Hal
(eds.), Language and culture in early Christianity: A Companion. Leuven: Peeters.

Crellin, Robert S. D. Forthc.(d). The semantics of word division in Northwest Semitic writing systems. Oxford: Oxbow