Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Linguistics

All meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 4.30pm in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.  Tea will be served at 4.15pm.  All welcome! See also http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/9831.

Lent term: Minority Languages in the Ancient World

6 February
James Clackson (Cambridge): How many languages were spoken in the ancient world?

20 Febrary
Paul Russell (ASNAC, Cambridge): Latin as a minority language in late Roman Britain

27 February
Marja Vierros (Helsinki / New York): Title to be announced (relating to Greek and Egyptian)

Michaelmas Programme: Greek Dialects and Dialectology

10 October

Markus Egetmeyer (Sorbonne): 'Linear ABCD: grids, loans and phonetics'

17 October (guest lecture hors série)

Vassilis Petrakis (Athens): 'Sidelights on the development of Aegean Bronze Age writing: The nature and function of Linear B 'monograms''

24 October

Stephen Colvin (UCL): 'Defining Dialects'

7 November

Olga Tribulato (Venice): 'Great aspirations: the role of (some) Attic sounds in ancient dialectology and lexicography'