Federico Dragoni
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. F. Dragoni
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- f.dragoni@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0680-104x
Federico Dragoni is a postdoc at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
More information about Federico Dragoni
Profile
I specialize in Iranian and Central Asian languages, focusing on the pre-Islamic Tarim Basin in today’s Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in Northwest China. I am fascinated by ancient phenomena of linguistic exchange along the Silk Road and their repercussions on ancient and modern societies. I investigate these exchange networks using the tools of historical linguistics, (historical) language contact, philology, and (art) history.
I earned my BA (2014) and MA (2016) in Iranian Studies from Sapienza University of Rome and Freie Universität Berlin, where I studied Iranian philology, Modern Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit and specialized in (Eastern) Middle Iranian languages, with a research focus on Khotanese, Sogdian, and Middle Persian.
In 2022, I earned a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University as a member of the NWO-funded project “Tracking the Tocharians” under the guidance of Prof. M. Peyrot. My thesis demonstrated that the influence of Khotanese and Tumshuqese on Tocharian was much stronger than previously thought. This work has recently been awarded the first prize of the Society for Indo-European Studies and the Award for Best PhD Dissertation in Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE). A revised version of this work has been published as a monograph in the series Beiträge zur Iranistik (Reichert) and is available Open Access.
Studies
2022 PhD Linguistics, Leiden University
2016 MA Iranistik, Freie Universität Berlin
2014 BA Oriental Languages and Cultures, Sapienza University of Rome
2009 MA Music (Clarinet), Conservatory G. Verdi, Milan
Employment
2022-present Postdoc, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2017-2021 PhD employee (promovendus), Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2015-2017 Student assistant at the Institute for Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL VIET
- Barbera G., De Chiara M., Del Tomba A., Bhikkhunī D., Dragoni F. & Orsatti P. (Eds.) (2024), Siddham: studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi. Beiträge zur Iranistik no. 52. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.
- Dragoni F. (2024), Washing, bathing and soaking: Proto-Iranian *snaH- in Khotanese. In: Barbera G., De Chiara M., Del Tomba A., Bhikkhunī D. & Orsatti P. (Eds.), Siddham: Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi. Beiträge zur Iranistik no. 52. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. 159-170.
- Dragoni F. (2024), Review of: Sims-Williams N. (2022), The book of Zambasta: Metre and stress in Old Khotanese. Beiträge zur Iranistik no. 49. Wiesbaden: Reichert . Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 119(1): 55-57.
- Dragoni F. (2023), “In the tune of the king of Khotan”: the name of Khotan in the Tarim Basin and beyond, Journal of the American Oriental Society 143(2): 289-308.
- Dragoni F. (2023), Watañi lāntaṃ: Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian. Beiträge zur Iranistik no. 50. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag.
- Dragoni F. & Morano E. (2023), A Sogdian Manuscript in Manichaean Script on Cosmogony and Rules for Elect and Hearers in Manistans. In: Morano E., Lieu S.N.C. & Pedersen N.A. (Eds.), Manichaica Taurinensia. Analecta Manichaica no. 2. Turnhout: Brepols.
- Dragoni F. (13 April 2022), Watañi lāntaṃ: Khotanese and Tumshuqese loanwords in Tocharian (PhD thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Lubotsky A., Peyrot M.
- Peyrot M., Dragoni F. & Bernard C.B.A.S. (2022), The spread of iron in Central Asia: on the etymology of the word for “iron” in Iranian and Tocharian, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 85(3): 403-422.
- Dragoni F. (2021), Materia Medica Tocharo-Hvatanica, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 84(2): 295-319.
- Dragoni F., Schoubben N. & Peyrot M. (2020), The Formal Kharoṣṭhī script from the Northern Tarim Basin in Northwest China may write an Iranian language, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 73(3): 335-373.
- Dragoni F. (2020), The Tumshuqese year of the goat and the Fremdzeichen x6, Journal Asiatique 308(2): 215-223.
- Dragoni F. (2018), The Oldest Attested Pāzand in the Bundahišn Text of the Munich Manuscript M51 An Orthographic and Phonological Analysis, Studia Iranica 47(2): 165 - 199.
- Chunakova O., Dragoni F. & Morano E. (2017), A forgotten Manichaean Sogdian Bifolio in Sogdian Script, Written Monuments of the Orient (English version) 1(2017): 3-25.
- Dragoni F. (2017), Chotanisch-buddhistische Manuskriptologie. In: Paul L. (Ed.), Handbuch der Iranistik, Band 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. 394-402.