Phase 1: Online Spring School | April 20 – 23, 2026
EEST (UTC+3): Athens, Bucharest
CEST (UTC+2): Tübingen, Madrid, Rome, Marseille, Stockholm, Brussels, Salzburg, Lausanne
BST (UTC+1): Glasgow
| Time | Monday 20/4 | Tuesday 21/4 | Wednesday 22/4 | Thursday 23/4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 11:30 EEST 09:00 - 10:30 CEST 08:00 - 09:30 BST | Diachronic Linguistics Reimagined: Contemporary Perspectives. Part INikolaos Lavidas (Athens) | Verb-nominal collocations in diachrony: from Latin to Romance languagesMaria Isabel Jimenez Martinez (Madrid) | Diachronic Linguistics Reimagined: Contemporary Perspectives. Part IINikolaos Lavidas (Athens) | Descriptive linguistics in the time of AI: a multistratal approachArtemij Keidan (Sapienza) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 EEST 11:00 - 12:30 CEST 10:00 - 11:30 BST | The history of διότι: from Cause to Substantive Subordinator, and back againJesus Polo Arrondo (Madrid) | Ancient Greek Onomastics: the case of the Styra tabletsFrancesca Dell’Oro (Bologna) | Construction Grammar, corpus-based methods and the recent history of the English Objoid ConstructionTamara Bouso Rivas (Santiago de Compostela) | The evolution of negation examined via two cyclical models: Jespersen vs. CroftLjuba Veselinova (Stockholm) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 EEST 13:00 - 14:00 CEST 12:00 - 13:00 BST | Exploring how to work with historical and diachronic corporaSophia Chionidi, Eleni Plakoutsi, Nikolaos Lavidas (Athens) | Exploring how to work with historical and diachronic corporaSophia Chionidi, Eleni Plakoutsi, Nikolaos Lavidas (Athens) | Exploring how to work with historical and diachronic corporaSophia Chionidi, Eleni Plakoutsi, Nikolaos Lavidas (Athens) | Exploring how to work with historical and diachronic corporaSophia Chionidi, Eleni Plakoutsi, Nikolaos Lavidas (Athens) |
Stage 2: Hands-on Project Development (May – June 2026)
Specialized online sessions including one workshop hands-on of 1 hour in May and one in June focusing on individual research findings.
July 20–24, 2026: Physical mobility to Naxos, Greece for research presentations and advanced seminars.
Program and onsite information: Full Naxos Details →
Leading experts in linguistics from European universities
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Universität Tübingen
Sapienza Università di Roma
Sapienza Università di Roma
University of Glasgow
University of Bucharest
University of Bucharest
Stockholm University
University of Salzburg
Aix-Marseille Université
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sofia Chionidi, Eleni PlakoutsiSpecialists participating in the April Spring School sessions
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
University of Bologna
University of Santiago de Compostela
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The 2026 Full CIVIS BIP deadline has passed. Current options:
Apply specifically for the physical week in Naxos (July 20–24, 2026).
Registration Portal →Applications for the complete edition (Online + Workshops + Naxos) will open in September – October 2026.
Admitted students will receive further course access information after acceptance, including access to the CIVIS Moodle platform.
For any inquiries regarding the CIVIS BIP Programme, please reach out to the project coordinator:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens