First International Workshop on Computational Latin Dialectology

April 7–8, 2016

Conference Room

Research Institute for Linguistics (RIL), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

Benczúr utca 33.

1068 Budapest

Hungary

Program

Thursday, April, 7, 2016

9.00 - 9.15

Opening:
Bakró-Nagy, Marianne (Chair, Department of Finno-Ugristics and Historical Linguistics, RIL/HAS, Budapest) and Adamik, Béla (LRGCLD^[1], RIL/HAS, Budapest)

SESSION 1

Chair: Kiss, Sándor (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

9.15 – 10.00

Adamik, Béla (LRGCLD, RIL/HAS, Budapest) - Potential Greek influence on the Vulgar Latin sound change [b] > [β]: Dialectological evidence from inscriptions

10.00 – 10.45

Kunèer, Dragana (The Institute of History, Belgrade) - The Tabella plumbea Traguriensis as evidence for spoken Latin in Dalmatia in the 6th century

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

SESSION 2

Chair: Adamik, Tamás (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

11.00 – 11.45

Urbanová, Daniela (Masaryk University Brno) - Latin Curse Texts: Mediterranean Tradition and Local Diversity

11.45 – 12.30

Barta, Andrea (LRGCLD, RIL/HAS, Budapest) - A Letter to the Netherworld. The Third Curse Tablet from Aquincum

Friday, April 8, 2016

SESSION 1

Chair: Adamik, Tamás (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

9.00 – 9.45

Tantimonaco, Silvia (Universitat de Barcelona) - Applied Computational Latin Dialectology: first results from the Conventus Pacensis (South Portugal). Continuity and linguistic innovation.

9.45 – 10.30

Gaspar, Catarina (Universidade de Lisboa) - Constructing, deconstructing and understanding: The Paleo-Christian corpora and Latin dialectology

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break

SESSION 2

Chair: Kiss, Sándor (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

10.45 – 11.30

Gonda, Attila (LRGCLD, RIL/HAS, Budapest) - The Aquincum–Salona–Aquileia Triangle: Latin language in the Alps–Danube–Adria region

DEMO SESSION

11.30 – 12.30

Adamik, Béla (LRGCLD, RIL/HAS, Budapest): Demonstration of the Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age and the database works in active collaboration with the data collectors Markéta Melounová PhD, Natália Gachallová MA, Pavel Ševèík MA, Tereza Ševèíková MA, Radek Èernoch MA and TomᚠWeissar BA  from the Department of Classical Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno.

Please find the programme with abstracts here.

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This Workshop has been organized in the framework of the project entitled “Lendület (‘Momentum’) Research Group for Computational Latin Dialectology” (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, cf. http://www.nytud.hu/depts/fu/indexlendulet.html) and of the project OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) No. K 108399 entitled “Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age” (Eötvös Loránd University  Budapest).