The second International Colloquium 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 ICAGL merged with the biennial Incontro Internazionale di Linguistica Greca (IILG).

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 level. The Helsinki 2018 colloquium has two themes: 1) Language contact between Greek and other languages and 2) Linguistic research on original documents and manuscripts.