Ninth International Workshop on Computational Latin Dialectology

Programme

Thursday, 11 June 2026

9:00 – 9:15
Opening, in memoriam Sándor Kiss – Veronika Lipp (director-general, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest), Bakró-Nagy, Marianne (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest) and Giampaolo Salvi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

SESSION 1
Chair: Cser, András (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest)

9:15 – 9:50
Adamik, Béla (Ca’Foscari University of Venice – ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest) – The Fate of Word-Final –s in Eighth-Century Italian Latin

9:50 – 10:25
Pálfi, Dorottya (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics – Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) – The analysability of the pronominal demonstratives in the St. Gall corpus

10:25 – 11:00
Willms, Lothar (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – Rigomagus vulgaris: Regional Latin in non-standard inscriptions from Rome’s Northwestern fringe

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

SESSION 2
Chair: Giampaolo Salvi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

11:30 – 12:05
Paulus, Nóra (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) – On the Frequency of Syncope in Vulgar Latin

12:05 – 12:40
Gaspar, Catarina (University of Lisbon) – Writing in Latin after 711 in the western Iberian Peninsula: A sociolinguistic analysis of medieval inscriptions from Portuguese territory

12:40 – 13:15
Seres, Dániel (Mathias Corvinus Collegium – Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest) – Fricatives or the loss of the aspiration? A case study on the usage of Greek aspirated consonants in imperial Rome and Egypt as evidenced in Latin inscriptions

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch break

SESSION 3
Chair:  Eleonora Delfino (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)

15:00 – 15:35
Barchi, Serena (University of Tuscia) – The Subjunctive in Embedded Clauses: Evidence from the ChLA

15:35 – 16:10
Szlovicsák, Béla (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) – Grammatical gender in the Tuscan charters of the ChLA

16:10– 16:30 Coffee break

SESSION 4
Chair:  Cotugno, Francesca (University of Palermo)

16:30 – 17:05
Tamponi, Lucia (University of Pisa) – ULTRA: Non-Literary Latin and Language Change, towards LLDB Integration

17:05 – 17:40
Papini, Alessandro (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) – Introducing AI_Stripertus: a large language model-based framework for AI-assisted normalisation of (ChLA) Late Latin texts

Friday, 12 June 2026

SESSION 1
Chair: Szabó, Ádám (Hungarian National Museum – Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest)

9:00 – 9:35
Bohacsek, Dóra (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest) – African Latin Features in the Language of the Vetus Afra? Linguistic Evidence from the Text of the Codex Bobbiensis

9:35 – 10:10
Vágási, Tünde (Semmelweis University Budapest – MTA–SZTE Momentum Mithras Research Group) – Language use of the Mithraic inscriptions

10:10 – 10:45
Barta, Andrea (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics) – The Place of Latin within Multilingual Magic: Insights from a Pannonian Amulet

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

SESSION 2
Paolo Greco (University of Naples Federico II)

11:15 – 11:50
D’Argenio, Elisa (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) – The encoding of the indirect object in eighth-century Tuscan charters between formulaicity and variation

11:50 – 12:25
Nemes, Szilvia (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) – Private legal documents as a specific group of sources concerning African Latin.

12:25 – 13:00
Papini, Alessandro (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) – Again on the difference between phonology and morphosyntax in the ChLA. The problem of diatopy

13:00 – 13:10
Closing remarks – Bakró-Nagy, Marianne (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest) and Adamik, Béla (Ca’Foscari University of Venice – ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest)

Please find the abstracts of the papers here.

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The Workshop is organized in the framework of the HORIZON-ERC-2022-ADG project no. 101098102 entitled Digital Latin Dialectology (DiLaDi): Tracing Linguistic Variation in the Light of Ancient and Early Medieval Sources (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101098102) and coordinated by the Department of Humanities of Ca’Foscari University of Venice to be realized with the collaboration of the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest.

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