13 Feb 2025 - 14 Feb 2025

University of Basel, Rosshofgasse 2 (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 02, 4051 Basel

Organizer:
Organized by Dr. Marwan Kilani (Basel), Prof. Robin Meyer (Lausanne) and Dr. Neige Rochant (Lausanne)

Workshop

Second Swiss Workshop on Sociolinguistics, Language Contacts and Historical Linguistics in the Ancient World

The Swiss Workshop on Sociolinguistics, Language Contacts and Historical Linguistics in the Ancient World, now in its second edition, aims at exploring questions of sociolinguistics, language contacts and historical linguistics in antiquity and prehistory.

Organized by Dr. Marwan Kilani (Basel), Prof. Robin Meyer (Lausanne) and Dr. Neige Rochant (Lausanne)

The workshop will combine sessions for the presentation of selected papers with open table discussions. We organizers are particularly interested in:

  • Language contact, areal phenomena, and sociolinguistics in the ancient and pre-/proto-historic contexts;

  • Interdisciplinary approaches involving other evidence (archaeology, genetics, etc.);

  • New methods to approach and analyse the data (e.g. computational methods);

  • Theoretical and methodological questions;

  • Case studies and general discussions about the potential role of linguistics in the study of the socio-historical realities of ancient societies.


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