The fourth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 9 March 2026 at 5pm GMT. Ilia Afanasev (University of Vienna, Austria) will be presenting on "A study of the diatopic variation in Old East Slavic charters by means of a small unannotated corpus-based language comparison”.

Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 6 March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/WXumpbms2BFMkFtu9

Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk.

The abstract for this talk can be found at this pagehttps://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/monday-9-march-2026-5pm-gmt/.

The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website:

https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/2026-programme/

This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina (King’s College London) and Dr Mathilde Bru and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field.

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