March 7 – May 12, 2025

The series consists of seven meetings. The speakers will present their ongoing research on topics related to the analysis of language variation and change, and on the contribution that automatic data analysis is able to provide to the study of the processes and structures which define human language and explain its diversity.
A unifying theme will be the interaction, in terms of methods and results, between historical and formal linguistics and the automatic tools for data analyses made available by computer sciences, with the aim to define novel research lines and envisage effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
Each meeting will explore these topics from a different angle: the investigation of ancient texts of a composite nature (Homeric texts) through the implementation of automatic analysis techniques (C. Bozzone); the neurobiological coding of the linguistic capacity and its structures (A. Moro); ‘microscopic’ variation and language contact (A. De Angelis); the reconstruction of the human past through the investigation of syntactic change and the automatic analysis of comparative materials (G. Longobardi); the universal coding of syntactic properties with their synchronic and diachronic variation (P. Crisma).

For more information see the attached flyer, or contact the organizer, Prof. Cristina Guardiano.