Book of abstracts
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Program (Central European Time)
| February 2 | ||
| 9h30-10h | Welcome | Marja Vierros & Klaas Bentein |
| Session 1 | Keynote lecture | Chair: Klaas Bentein |
| 10h-10h45 | Researching the Language of the Papyri: Recent Progress and the Shape of the Future | Trevor Evans |
| 10h45-11h | Coffee break | |
| Session 2 | Spelling variation | Chair: Sonja Dahlgren |
| 11h-11h30 | Fluctuations in the spelling of morphemes in Greek documentary papyri | Joanne Stolk |
| 11h30-12h | Spelling variation of technical terms in the Greek medical papyri | Nicola Reggiani |
| 12h-12h30 | Corpora and correctness: spelling variation in an educated papyrus | Winnie Smith |
| 12h30-14h | Lunch break | |
| Session 3 | Language contact in papyri | Chair: Yasmine Amory |
| 14h-14h30 | Regional Loanwords in Latin Papyrus Documents: Some Case Studies to Explore Latin-Greek Bilingualism and Language Contact in Egypt | Alessia Pezzella |
| 14h30-15h | Contact ‘iotacism’ | Sonja Dahlgren |
| 15h-15h30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Sofía Torallas Tovar | ||
| 15h30-16h | Tracing digraphia in one word? The case of Coptic letters in Egyptian personal names and toponyms | Antonia Apostolakou |
| 16h-16h30 | Written standard and varying practice. Case inflection in the early Arabic documents written on papyrus (622 -912 AD) | Fokelien Kootstra |
| 16h30-17h | From Greek to Arabic: Loanword Usage in the Late Coptic Letters of the 10th/11th cent | Vincent Walter |
| February 3 | ||
| Session 4 | Keynote lecture | Chair: Marianna Thoma |
| 09h30-10h15 | Communicating in High-Register Greek in Private Papyrus Letters of the Roman Period | Amphilochios Papathomas & Aikaterini Koroli |
| 10h15-10h30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 5 | Linguistic levels and language change | Chair: Trevor Evans |
| 10h30-11h | A Quantitative (High-)Register Analysis of Greek Papyrus Letters (I–IV CE) | Emmanuel Roumanis |
| 11h-11h30 | In search of glimpses: the contribution of papyri to the diachrony of relative articles | Eleonora Cattafi |
| 11h30-12h | Once again on non-finite complement clauses in non-literary papyri | Jerneja Kavcic |
| 12h-13h30 | Lunch break | |
| Session 6 | Digital and corpus-based approaches to syntax and morphology | Chair: Joanne Stolk |
| 13h30-14h | Of treebanks and collexemes: collostructional analysis and documentary papyri | Francesco Mambrini |
| 14h-14h30 | Twigs and boughs: ordering patterns of noun phrases with multiple modifiers | Polina Yordanova |
| 14h30-15h | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Aikaterini Koroli | ||
| 15h-15h30 | Diminutives in the Greek papyri (and related sources): a corpus-based investigation | Alek Keersmaekers |
| 15h30-16h | The popularity of the articular infinitive in Greek documentary papyri | Marja Vierros |
| 16h | (Virtual) drinks | |
| February 4 | ||
| Session 7 | Keynote lecture | Chair: Marja Vierros |
| 09h30-10h15 | The language of the magical papyri | Sofía Torallas Tovar |
| 10h15-10h30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 8 | Syntax | Chair: Silvia Luraghi |
| 10h30-11h | Wishes in the papyri and the Post-Classical reorganization of the wish system | Ezra la Roi |
| 11h-11h30 | Insubordination in Greek documentary papyri: the case of ὥστε independent sentences | Giuseppina di Bartolo |
| 11h30-12h | Insubordination in a corpus of early Byzantine Greek letters from Egypt | Victoria Fendel |
| 12h-13h30 | Lunch break | |
| Session 9 | Papyri and communication | Chair: Amphilochios Papathomas |
| 13h30-14h | Linguistic and graphic strategies of textualization in Greek letters from the Early Arabic period | Klaas Bentein |
| 14h-14h30 | Everyday occupations in Roman and Late Antique Egypt: Linguistic Variants and their social implications | Marianna Thoma |
| 14h30-15h | The sound of silence: investigating non-verbal aspects of (im)politeness in Greek letters on papyrus | Yasmine Amory |
| 15h | Final discussion and farewell |