Topics Covered
The 11th Naxos Summer School will cover a comprehensive range of topics in diachronic linguistics:
Theoretical Foundations
- Introduction to diachronic linguistics
- Comparative methods in language change
- Corpus linguistics approaches
- Historical sociolinguistics
Ancient Languages
- Greek diachrony (Ancient to Modern)
- Latin and Romance languages
- Ancient Near Eastern languages
- Indo-European linguistics
Medieval Languages
- Medieval Greek and Byzantine texts
- Old English and Germanic languages
- Medieval Romance varieties
- Manuscript studies and philology
Computational Methods
- Digital humanities approaches
- Corpus analysis tools
- AI and machine learning in linguistics
- Open science and data sharing
Participating Institutions
The summer school brings together scholars from leading universities worldwide:
Europe
- University of Cambridge, UK
- University of Osnabrück, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Germany
- Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
- University of Glasgow, UK
- Stockholm University, Sweden
- Aix-Marseille Université, France
Greece & Mediterranean
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- University of Bucharest, Romania
- Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
North America
- Arizona State University, USA