Upcoming events
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Mon05Sep2022Fri09Sep2022Gent
14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIV)
Show contentPlease note: the conference has been postponed again due to the continuing uncertainties related to the covid-19 pandemic and will take place from Monday, September 5th to Friday, September 9th, 2022.
The 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIV) will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University (Belgium) from Monday, September 5th to Friday, September 9th, 2022. It will be organized by the Latin section and the research group DiaLing at the Department of Linguistics, under the auspices of the Comité international pour l'étude du latin vulgaire et tardif (www.unibg.it/lvlt).
The colloquium will be held in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Latin. As per tradition, it will be devoted to all linguistic aspects of late, informal, non-standard and colloquial Latin (including the transition from Latin to Romance).
For all further information, please visit the website of the colloquium at https://www.lvlt14.ugent.be. For any additional questions you may have, please contact the organisers at lvlt14@ugent.be.
Past events
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Fri14Jun20199:00 amGrote vergaderzaal (Blandijnberg 2, 3rd floor)
Workshop on Palenquero
Show contentIt is a pleasure to invite you to the seminar on Palenquero, a Romance-Bantu creole spoken in Colombia, to be given by Dr Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (University of Augsburg), on Friday 14th of June from 9h to 12h (Grote Vergaderzaal, Blandijn). In this seminar Dr Gutiérrez Maté, who studied under the guidance of the world-renowned creolist Prof. Dr Armin Schwegler, will discuss the historical genesis and parts of the linguistic characterisation of Palenquero, as well as share his personal experiences from doing fieldwork in more remote parts of the world.