Quarterly review for the period September 2025–February 2026.

Published on March 2, 2026.

Published datasets

• Old Norse dataset

• Old Swedish dataset

Datasets in preparation

• Middle High German dataset

• Modern Dutch dataset

• Modern West Frisian dataset

Publications

• Lat. vīpera ‘viper, snake’. Die Sprache 57. 141–145.

• (with C. Zanchi) Basic valency orientation in Gothic. Indogermanische Forschungen 130. 257–283.

• Íslendingabók, introduzione, traduzione ed edizione. Le lingue nordiche corpus (MENOTA project, Bergen)

Conferences & workshops

• Perspectives on Germanic Syntax, Pavia April 16-17, 2026.

• Trends and Problems in Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Uppsala September 19-20, 2025.

Third mission & outreach

• An afternoon chat about postdoctoral applications and MSCA fellowships (PF, GF) (with Tommaso Alpina, MSCA-GF).

• Call for Expression of Interest for the 2026 call of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (organization and sponsorship).

• Two career advice lectures at the Università della Val d'Aosta.

• Raniero Chelli on EU funding and the Humanities @ Cantieri d'Autunno 2025 (sponsorship).

Other ancillary activities & related research

• Lecture on the Langobardic language at the Università di Firenze.

• Lecture on Proto-Indo-European verb root semantics at the Center for the Human Past (Uppsala, Sweden).

• 7th Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (organization and sponsorship).

Team

• German team: Giacomo Bucci, Henrik Hornecker, Benedetta Romanazzi, Luisa Giacoma.

• Consultants: Stephen Laker (Frisian), Christoph Hössel (Old Saxon)

• Other collaborators with own sampled data: Chiara Zanchi (Gothic), Martina Giarda (Old and Middle English), Riccardo Mazzieri (Modern Swedish)