Jurica Polančec, PhD, a member of the project team, participated from July 20th to July 25th at the 10th Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics on the island of Naxos in Greece. The topic of this year’s edition was Comparing Diachronies. The summer school offers an overview of current research in diachronic linguistics through a large number of lectures and workshops over six days, using thematically and methodologically diverse approaches.
The lectures were given by 18 experts and covered topics such as corpus and statistical methods in diachronic linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, generative linguistics, construction grammar, and diachronic typology. Numerous languages and their historical development, including Ancient and Modern Greek, Middle and Modern English, Icelandic, Romanian, Scots, and others, were also the subject of the lectures.
On the first day of summer school, a roundtable discussion was held on the future of diachronic linguistics in the age of artificial intelligence. Due to the numerous distinguished lecturers, the summer school was an exceptional opportunity to establish contacts and discuss possible future cooperation.
