Corpora and Language

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Workshop, 12-13 January 2006, Faculty of Classics

Corpora and Language

An Arts and Humanities Research Council Event

The Greek Lexicon Project (Cambridge)
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/glp/
The Grammar of Medieval Greek (Cambridge)
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/grammarofmedievalgreek/
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project (King’s College London)
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Programme

Thursday, January 12th
2.00 Welcome
Corpora and Texts
2.15 Gabriel Bodard and Juan Garces, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project, London /
2.45 Greg Crane, Perseus Project, Tufts http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
3.15 Daniel Deckers, Teuchos Project, Hamburg http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/news.html
3.45 Discussion
4.15 Tea
4.45 Jim Aitken, The Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World, Reading (Abstract) http://www.rdg.ac.uk/lxx/
5.15 Dirk Obbink and Benjamin Weaver, Imaging Papyri Project, Oxford http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/papyri.asp
6.00 Drinks
Friday, January 13th
Language and Texts
10.00 Notis Toufexis and David Holton, The Grammar of Medieval Greek (Abstract) http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/grammarofmedievalgreek/
10.30 Eugenia Beu-Dachin, The Latin Language in the Inscriptions from Roman Dacia, Cluj/Bergen (Abstract) http://multilingua.uib.no/geni.page
11.00 Brian Fuchs, Max Planck Institute, Berlin (Abstract) http://archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates
11.30 Ross Scaife, Stoa Consortium, Kentucky http://www.stoa.org
12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
Words and Lexica
2.00 Bruce Fraser and Anne Thompson, The Greek Lexicon Project http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/glp/
2.30 Trevor Evans, Medieval Latin Dictionary (Abstract) http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/dml.asp
3.00 Dolores Iorizzo, Cultural Heritage Language Technologies, Imperial College http://www.CHLT.org
3.30 Juan Rodriguez Somolinos & Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas, Diccionario Griego-Español, CSIC (Madrid) http://www.filol.csic.es/dge/index2.htm
4.00 Tea
4.30 Final discussion; where next?
7.00 for 7.30: Dinner for speakers

Others attending:

  • Julia Craig-McFeely (Oxford/London)
  • Marilyn Deegan (King’s College London)
  • James Diggle (Cambridge)
  • Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London)
  • Timothy Hill (Cambridge)
  • Pauline Hire (Cambridge)
  • Geoffrey Horrocks (Cambridge)
  • Karen Sparck Jones (Cambridge)
  • David Langslow (Manchester)
  • Tina Lendari (Cambridge)
  • Fabienne Marchand (LGPN, Oxford)
  • Joyce Reynolds (Cambridge)
  • Charlotte Roueche (King’s College London)
  • Oliver Simkin (Cambridge)
  • Amy Smith (Reading)
  • Rupert Thompson (Cambridge)

Attendance is open to all; those who wish to book a sandwich lunch on Friday (cost £5, payable on the day) should let us know by 9 January; please email charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk.

Epigraphic Saturday, 14 January 2006

For those with epigraphic interests, there will be a meeting the following day, on Saturday 14 January in the series of Epigraphic Saturdays organised by Joyce Reynolds: these offer a forum for informal presentations of work in progress.

Programme:

10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Andrea Raggi, 'The letters of Imp. Caesar concerning Seleucus of Rhosus' [in preparation participants are advised to read A. Raggi, 'The epigraphic dossier of Seleucus of Rhosus: a revised edition', ZPE 147 (2004), 123-138]
12.30-14.00 Lunch (participants will be able to buy lunch at Newnham College, which will be operating a cafeteria system)
14.00 onwards David Blackman, 'Aspects of Sicilian epigraphy'
Simon Corcoran, 'Divus Diocletianus?'
Michael Crawford, 'Women's work for Diocletian'

All welcome; for further information please contact Joyce Reynolds at jmr38@cam.ac.uk.

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