Tobias B. Paul

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institut für Archäologie

Tobias B. Paul has studied Egyptology and the archaeology of ancient Sudan, sociology and philosophy of culture, and historical linguistics. He holds an M.A. in Archaeology and Cultural History of Northeast Africa and a B.A. in Cultural Studies. Tobias is mainly interested in Egyptian and Coptic linguistics, focusing on language change, sociolinguistics, morphology, and phonology, and has researched historical questions such as the use of war elephants in ancient Northeast Africa. In the B03 project, he will study register variation in the Egyptian-Coptic language. His dissertation project examines how registers are involved in the processes of language change from Older to Later Egyptian.

Projects

MGK Integrated Graduate School
B03 Register variation and asymmetric communication in Ancient Egypt

Contact

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

tobias.paul@hu-berlin.de https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6994-0247

Publications & Presentations

    Presentations

  • Paul, Tobias B.  (2026) Modelling Register Variation: A Multidimensional Analysis of Ancient Egyptian  In: Net (of) Words: Language, Writing and Culture in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Barcelona [ViVo]
  • Paul, Tobias B.  (2026) Modelling Register Variation in Ancient Egyptian Using the TLA Corpus  In: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA), Invited Talk to TLA staff and members of the Finnish project “Automatic Classification and Analysis of Texts from Egyptian Antiquity” [ViVo]
  • Paul, Tobias B.; Lincke, Eliese-Sophia  (2025) Lexical Diversity in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae: Evaluating Corpus-Linguistic Metrics for Ancient Egyptian Texts  In: Bytes and Bygones – Digital and Computational Analyses of Ancient Cultures, Ghent & Brussels [ViVo]
  • Paul, Tobias B.  (2025) From Data to Interpretation. Modelling of Register Variation in Ancient Egyptian  In: CENTRAL Joint Workshop: Interpretation, Overinterpretation, Underinterpretation. Critical Approaches to Meaning-Making in Egyptology; Berlin [ViVo]
  • Paul, Tobias B.  (2024) Towards a Register-Focused Framework for Analyzing Language Change  In: CENTRAL Joint Workshop: Mosaics of Details. From Little Pieces to the Big Picture within an Interdisciplinary Framework; Vienna [ViVo]