Online Version of "Naxos 2020" Summer School:
Workshop: Only for Students of the summer school (for: ECTS, scholarships).
Update: May 3, 2020
The first part of the 5th Naxos summer school will have the form of a digital summer school and will include all courses and masterclasses of the initial program (July 19-26, 2020). We also plan to deliver a second part of the school at a later day.
Participants will have to apply for registration by June 20 using the following link:
https://forms.gle/uwufv7Spa7RxXz8F9
There is no registration fee and participants may earn a scholarship for the next version of the summer school.
Update: April 15, 2020
Unfortunately, the 5th Naxos Summer School is postponed to a later date due to the coronavirus.
We are exploring ways to deliver the event at a later date in person or online.
We will announce the new deadline for applications (second round of applications) soon.
More announcements will occur in coming weeks.
Call for Papers
The 5th Naxos Summer School on Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe (July 19-26, 2020) will be organizing a workshop on “Language Change in Indo-European” II, to be held on July 22, 2020.
Abstracts that approach change in Indo-European languages (from Proto-Indo-European to daughter languages, or in Indo-European branches) from any perspective are welcome, including: historical morpho-syntax, historical phonology, historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics.
The rich historical data of Indo-European languages offer a stable basis for the formation and validation of language change theories, and mainly for those analyzing the direction of change.
The idea of the workshop is to offer our summer schools participants as well as other scholars interested in a systematic study of change in Indo-European languages, the opportunity to present their ongoing research or the results of their studies on change and its directions in the Indo-European family. We encourage papers of both data- and theory-oriented approaches. Presentations will last 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for discussion.
The issues to be addressed in the workshop include the following topics:
(i) new perspectives on phonological or morpho-syntactic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European;
(ii) new analyses of long-standing questions that concern, for instance, gender-animacy-number, diathesis-voice, cases and alignment, finiteness and non-finiteness, prepositions-postpositions-prefixes in Indo-European;
(iii) new approaches to the study of features (isoglosses) that are shared by more than one Indo-European branches;
(iv) new methods of analyzing the directions of (phonological/ morpho-syntactic/ lexical/ pragmatic) change in Indo-European;
(v) new trends in computational Indo-European linguistics (and computational cladistics).
Please email your 350-words (excluding references) abstract to Elly van Gelderen (ellyvangelderen@asu.edu), Alexander Bergs (abergs@uos.de), Ioanna Sitaridou (is269@cam.ac.uk), Nikolaos Lavidas (nlavidas@enl.uoa.gr), by April 15, 2020.
Registration fee only for the workshop: 30 euros
Registration fee for summer school + workshop: 190 euros, it also covers the light lunches for the whole period of the summer school.
On abstract models: Participants may consult the following SLE and LSA webpages:
http://sle2020.eu/how-to-write-a-good-abstract
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/model-abstracts
Elly van Gelderen, Alexander Bergs, Ioanna Sitaridou, Nikolaos Lavidas
