This CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme will introduce participating students to an interdisciplinary way of studying the development of languages, focusing on ancient and medieval European languages and on a contrastive approach.

Students will acquire advanced knowledge of the modern theoretical approaches to the study of ancient and medieval languages, both in relation to the analysis of their grammar and to the examination of the correlations between society (for instance, in the cases of language contact), culture and linguistic development.

Moreover, students will be involved in small linguistic and computational historical linguistic projects that aim to build advanced knowledge of the methodology of describing, analysing and explaining the grammar and the development of ancient and medieval languages.

This CIVIS Blended Intensive Programme includes an introduction to the methodology of computational and statistical analysis of language change and the challenges of linking digital heritage data with historical linguistic studies.

The physical mobility part will be running from 21 to 25 July 2025 and will take place in Naxos, Greece.

This CIVIS course is a blended-learning programme that consists of an intensive online Spring School, online workshops and an intensive Summer School (40 hours of face-to-face classes) that will be held in Naxos, Greece during July 2025.

Selected students will be supported by a grant for physical mobility to Greece.

The virtual part will be running from 7 April to 30 June 2025.

• 7-11 April 2025: Linguistic and computational historical linguistic intensive classes, lectures and masterclasses aiming at an advanced knowledge of the methodology of describing, analyzing and explaining language change.
• May - June 2025: Online workshops. Concrete dates to be announced. Small computational historical linguistic projects “From texts to grammar.”