How does language change over time? And how can digital text corpora shed light on its evolution? These questions were at the heart of the international workshop ‘Corpora and Diachrony: Influential Texts, Text Types, and Genres’, held at the European Cultural Delphi Centre, from 26 to 29 November 2025.
As part of a project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, the Athens Digital Glossa Chronos team of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Division of Language and Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy) brought together researchers from Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oslo, the University of Mannheim, Qatar University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and other higher education institutions for an intensive four-day programme of scholarly collaboration.
Spanning Ancient Greek and Latin through to medieval languages, the workshop combined computational methods with linguistic and philological analysis in one of the most iconic settings of all antiquity.
The event included keynote speeches, research sessions, and a cultural programme featuring a guided tour of the archaeological site of Delphi.
More information: https://athdgc.github.io/Delphi2025/
