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NEW WAYS OF ANALYZING ANCIENT GREEK 2 (NWAAG2)
New Ways of Analyzing Ancient Greek 2 is the second meeting of a workshop series initiated in Göttingen 13-14 Dec 2019. The reason for initiating this workshop series was to establish a network of linguists applying analytical tools of current linguistic theories to the research of Ancient Greek. This aim encompasses any framework of modern linguistics at any layer of grammar, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. We also particularly welcome contributions that make use of new resources such as annotated corpora, treebanks, etc. to advance our understanding of Ancient Greek grammar.
Ancient Greek and Latin were certainly among the best-studied languages a hundred years ago, biasing our understanding of grammatical categories and structures. In the realm of modern linguistics the perspective was shifted towards modern languages, which gave rise to an interesting situation: the grammars and dictionaries of Classical languages are still among the most detailed linguistic descriptions available, but these languages are severely underrepresented in modern linguistic research. In the recent years, numerous studies on Ancient Greek explored various aspects of the grammar in the light of modern linguistic frameworks and typological insights. In parallel, linguists and philologists created significant resources (online corpora, various types of databases, treebanks, tools for programming Classicists, etc.) that enhance our possibility to test linguistic hypotheses in larger data sets. Thus, within the empirical turn in linguistics, various methodological approaches have been developed for gaining new insights from such resources. This state of affairs offers the following challenges:
- • What can we learn from languages such as Ancient Greek for the generalizations gained within modern linguistic frameworks?
- • How can we advance our understanding of Ancient Greek by applying the analytic tools of modern linguistic theory?
- • How can we exploit modern resources and tools to test hypotheses on Ancient Greek grammar?
NWAAG 2 is part of Athens Linguistics Fall Fest 2024 (A.L.F.F. 2024) hosted by the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.