4th Naxos Summer School: Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe (LVC 2019)
♦OLD & MIDDLE ENGLISH ♦OLD HIGH GERMAN ♦OLD NORSE ♦OLD ROMANCE ♦ANCIENT GREEK
July 28 – August 3, 2019
Naxos, Greece
We are happy to inform you that registration is now open for the 4th Naxos summer school program and workshop on Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Arizona State University and University of Osnabrück are coordinating a summer school program, a workshop and master classes on ancient and medieval languages and linguistics, to be held on July 28 – August 3, 2019 on the island of Naxos, 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, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Romance and Ancient Greek) for a period of seven days. Eight courses will be offered as well as four master classes and a workshop. 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.
Faculty:
Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)
Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)
Dag Haug (University of Oslo)
Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Donka Minkova (University of California, Los Angeles)
Svetlana Petrova (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)
Courses:
Old and Middle English: Morphosyntax in manuscripts
Old English and how it developed syntactically in the later Middle and Modern periods
Old and Middle English phonology
Clause Structure and word order variation in Old High German
Old Norse and its Old Germanic relatives
The syntactic evolution of the Romance languages
Ancient Greek (morpho-)syntax
Proto-Indo-European (morpho-)syntax: An introduction
The 4th Naxos Summer School on Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe (July 28 – August 3, 2019) will also be organizing a workshop on “Language Change in Indo-European”, to be held on July 31, 2019.
