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Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Arizona State University, University of Osnabrück and University of Cambridge are coordinating a summer school program, a workshop and master classes on ancient and medieval languages and linguistics, to be held on the island of Naxos (Cyclades, Greece).
The summer school will offer intensive language classes and linguistic classes on language change and variation in Ancient and Medieval Europe (with emphasis on Old and Middle English, Older Scots, Gothic, Old Romance and Ancient Greek). The aim is to attract students and scholars to study ancient and medieval languages in a relaxed yet very focused and stimulating atmosphere that promotes in depth analysis and discussion.
Languages in Europe and their diachronies
Languages in Europe and their diachronies is a blended-learning programme that consists of an intensive online Spring school, an online workshop and an intensive summer school that will take place on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece.
The school will introduce the students to an interdisciplinary way of studying the past and present of languages, focusing on ancient and medieval European languages.
Moreover, students will also be involved in small linguistic and computational historical linguistic projects aiming at an advanced knowledge of the methodology of describing, analyzing and explaining the grammar and the development of ancient languages.
Students will acquire advanced knowledge of the modern theoretical approaches to the study of ancient languages, both in relation to the analysis of their grammar and to the examination of the correlations between society. The students will also be introduced to the methodology of computational and statistical analysis of ancient Indo-European languages and the challenges of linking digital heritage data with historical linguistic studies.
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For additional information on this course, please visit: http://CIVIS-Diachronic-Linguistics.uoa.gr