Courses and instructors:
Course 1 = Quantitative and formal methods in historical language comparison (Johann-Mattis List, Jena MPI)
Course 2 = Armenian (Petr Kocharov, St. Petersburg / Würzburg)
Course 3 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling. Lund)
Course 4 = Celtic (Aaron Griffith, Utrecht)
Course 5 = Baltic (Axel Holvoet, Vilnius)
Invited Lecture = (Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University)
Course Schedule
Meet our instructors
Johann-Mattis List is a senior scientist at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig and a Privatdozent at the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He
pursues an interdisciplinary research project on Computer-Assisted Language Comparison, which seeks to develop methods and interfaces that help to quantify and formalize the traditional comparative method in historical linguistics. The goal of these method is not to replace traditional scholarship, but rather to reconcile quantitative and qualitative approaches to historical language comparison.
Website: https://lingulist.de
Petr Kocharov is a senior researcher of the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation stipendiat at the Department of Comparative Philology of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2021/2022). His research is focussed on the comparative historical grammar of Classical Armenian with an emphasis on the verbal morphosyntax.
Website: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/vgsp/team/dr-petr-kocharov/
Axel Holvoet teaches general linguistics at Vilnius University. His research concentrates mainly on the Slavic and Baltic languages, with a focus on historical syntax and morphosyntax, grammatical semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.
Website: http://www.linguistics.flf.vu.lt/
Gerd Carling is Associate Professor at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. She has specialized in moribund and extinct languages and written dictionaries and grammars on the languages Tocharian and Romani chib. In addition, she has compiled an atlas on the lexical and grammatical typology of Eurasia from a cultural perspective. Besides philology and documentation, her research focuses on language reconstruction, in particular how ancient and cultural data can be used for studying language evolution and change. She has founded the DiACL database and lab, an infrastructure for reconstructing prehistoric languages by computational models.
Website: https://gerdcarling.se/
Aaron Griffith is Assistant Professor in Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University. After obtaining his PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Chicago, Dr. Griffith worked for a number of years at the University of Vienna as a post-doctoral researcher and contract lecturer, before he moved to Utrecht to take up his current post. His academic interests cover the synchrony and diachrony of the older and especially the Medieval Celtic languages, as well as language change more generally.
Website: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/amgriffith
Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics, and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, at The Ohio State University. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Program. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) President in 2019, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Philosophical Society, the LSA, and the Academia Europaea. He researches language change, especially involving Greek — Ancient through Modern — in its Indo-European and its Balkan contexts.
Website: https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/joseph.1
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Fourth edition (4-9 September 2017)
Course 1 = Indo-European Phonology (Martin J. Kümmel, Jena)
Course 2 = Nominal Categories (Thomas Krisch, Salzburg)
Course 3 = Verbal Categories (Leonid Kulikov, Pavia)
Course 4 = Reconstructing Proto-Indo-European Syntax (Daniel Petit, Paris)
Course 5 = The homeland of the Indo-Europeans (James Mallory, Belfast)
Invited Lecture = Russell Gray (Jena MPI), A new hybrid hypothesis for the origin and spread of the Indo-European languages
Third edition (7-12 September 2015)
Course 1 = Anatolian (H. Craig Melchert, UCLA)
Course 2 = Germanic (Ulrich Geupel, Marburg)
Course 3 = Slavic (Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Tromsø)
Course 4 = Italic (Karin Westin Tikkanen, Gotheborg)
Course 5 = Languages and molecular anthropology (Brigitte Pakendorf, CNRS)
Invited lecture = Impact of contact: Jewish Tat, an Iranian outlier in the Caucasus (Gilles Authier EPHE)