AthDGC

Athens Digital Glossa Chronos

Corpus-based Diachronic Linguistics Research

About the Project

The Athens Digital Glossa Chronos (AthDGC) project is a comprehensive computational pipeline for analyzing verb valency patterns (argument structures) through crosslinguistic contrastive and comparative analysis. Using state-of-the-art NLP tools and automated linguistic annotation, we process a huge number of parallel texts, including influential and representative texts, retranslations, and retellings, to track how verbs change their syntactic behavior over time.

The project develops corpus-based valency lexicons for ancient and medieval languages using innovative computational methods integrated with traditional philological expertise, enabling robust diachronic linguistic analysis across multiple language families and historical periods.

Funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Prof. Nikolaos Lavidas.

Project Team

Nikolaos Lavidas, Kiki Nikiforidou, Vassiliki Geka, Vassileios Symeonidis, Sofia Chionidi, Anastasia Tsiropina, Eleni Plakoutsi, Theodoros Michalareas, Evangelos Argyropoulos

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Key Publication

The project's main findings are published in the edited volume:

Genres, Influential Texts and Language Change: Exploring Cross-Fertilising Effects

Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

This volume explores how genres and influential texts shape language change through cross-linguistic and diachronic perspectives, bringing together computational methods and philological expertise.