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 Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics</span></b></p>
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 August – 1st September 2018, University of Helsinki, Finland</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
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 on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 2), Helsinki 2018, carries on with the new series on Ancient Greek linguistic research established in Rome Tor Vergata in March 2015. In Rome
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FI" lang="EN-GB">ICAGL
 merged with the biennial <i>Incontro Internazionale di Linguistica Greca</i> (IILG).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi" lang="EN-GB">The motif behind this series of
 colloquia is to study aspects of Ancient Greek linguistic usage from all angles, synchronically and diachronically, whether this be connected to language variation or development, and whether it relates to the phonological, morphological, syntactic or semantic/pragmatic
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 Helsinki 2018 colloquium has two themes: 1) Language contact between Greek and other languages<span style="color:red">
</span>and 2) Linguistic research on original documents and manuscripts.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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<span style="font-size:
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mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi" lang="EN-GB">Eleanor Dickey (University of Reading)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman";
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi" lang="EN-GB">We now invite Greek linguists
 to submit an abstract preferably, but not necessarily, relating to one or both themes of the colloquium for 1) a paper presentation (20 min) or 2) a poster. The anonymised abstract of max. 500 words (excluding references) should be sent by 31 January, 2018
 to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:icagl2018@helsinki.fi" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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 (as both .pdf and .docx/.rtf). The working languages of the colloquium are English, French, German and Italian. Notification of acceptance will be given by 28 February, 2018.</span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://blogs.helsinki.fi/actofscribe/icagl/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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