Sixth International Workshop on Computational Latin Dialectology

Program

Thursday, 6 July 2023

9:00 – 9:15
Opening:
Cser, András (Director, IHLUS[1], NYTK[3], Budapest) and Bakró-Nagy, Marianne (IHLUS, NYTK , Budapest)

SESSION 1
Chair: Ittzés, Máté (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

9:15 – 9:50
Adamik, Béla (RGLHLD[2], NYTK , Budapest) – Vowel mergers in the Latin of the Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire as evidenced in inscriptions

9:50 – 10:25
Simon, Zsolt (IHLUS, NYTK, Budapest) – The etymology of plouum

10:25 – 11:00
Urbanová, Daniela (Masaryk University Brno) & Barta, Andrea (RGLHLD, NYTK , Budapest) –Some remarks on a magical nail with an apotropaic inscription addressed to Artemis.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

SESSION 2
Chair: Cser, András (Director, IHLUS, NYTK, Budapest)

11:30 – 12:05
Tamponi, Lucia (University of Pisa) – Diatopic variation in African Latin: language and literacy

12:05 – 12:40
Barchi, Serena (University of Tuscia) – At the margins of the Latin-Greek writing koiné: special cases of geminatio consonantium

12:40 – 13:15
Papini, Alessandro (Ghent University) – On the merger of the front and back-vowels in Latin inscriptions from Rome (ca. 119 BCE – ca. 600 CE). A statistical study concerning vowel confusions (<e>/<i> and <o>/<u>) in the stressed vs. the unstressed syllables

13:30 – 15:00 Lunch break

SEMINAR SESSION
Chair: Adamik, Béla (RGLHLD, NYTK , Budapest)

15:00 – 15:45
Paulus, Nóra (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) – Metrical faults as evidence of linguistic change – data labelled ‘metro indicante’ in the Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age

15:45 – 16:00 Discussuion

Friday, 7 July 2023

SESSION 1
Chair: Adamik, Tamás (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

9:00 – 9:35
Cotticelli, Paola (University of Verona) & Cotugno, Francesca (University of Verona) – Medieval grammars as non-Literary source for Syntax: the Wiki format for terminological Analyses

9:35 – 10:10 Gaspar, Catarina (University of Lisbon) – Plus minus formulain Latin epigraphy – a reappraisal

10:10 – 10:45
Vágási, Tünde (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) – Latin theonyms and epithets in the light of epigraphic evidence: the case and declension system

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

SESSION 2
Chair: Kiss, Sándor (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

11:15 – 11:50
Pálfi, Dorottya (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) – Demonstratives in the Charters of St. Gall

11:50 – 12:25
Szlovicsák, Béla (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) – Gender confusions and other linguistic changes. A provisional description of Vulgar Latin Phenomena

12:25 – 13:00
Tantimonaco, Silvia (University of Oviedo) – Letter Z in the inscriptions of the Roman Empire

13:00 – 13:10
Closing remarks – Bakró-Nagy, Marianne (IHLUS, NYTK, Budapest) and Adamik, Béla (RGLHLD, NYTK, Budapest)

Please find the abstracts of the papers here.

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The Workshop is organized in the framework of the project “Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age” (National Research, Development and Innovation Office, NKFIH, No. K 135359, cf. http://lldb.elte.hu/) to be realized with the collaboration of the Research Group for Latin Historical Linguistics and Dialectology (former ‘Momentum’ Research Group for Computational Latin Dialectology) of the ELKH (former MTA) Research Centre for Linguistics and of the Latin Department of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. The organization of the Workshop was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by means of the Application for support for organizing international conferences no. NKSZ_2022_23-20.

[1] IHLUS = Institute of Historical Linguistics and Uralic Studies

[2] RGLHLD = Research Group for Latin Historical Linguistics and Dialectology

[3] NYTK = Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics