LVMH took place 20–22 March 2026 at the Pefkos City Hotel in Limassol (Cyprus). The workshop brought together researchers from Europe and beyond to explore non- standard grammatical systems from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Held over three days, the event was organized under the umbrella of the CHaRM Project, a joint initiative of the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus University of Technology.
LVMH featured two keynote addresses. Prof. Susann Fischer (University of Hamburg) opened the Saturday session with a talk on narrow versus interface syntax in Judeo- Spanish, and Prof. Evelina Leivada (ICREA & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) closed it with a wide-ranging lecture on quantifying hidden variation in the bilingual experience. A special invited talk by Prof. Maria Kambanaros (Cyprus University of Technology) on public health messaging and heritage speakers opened the final day. She was the invited “local speaker”, but LVMH also hosted an invited “early career speaker”: Dr. Constantina Fotiou (postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cyprus) presented her rich work on sociolinguistic studies on variation in Cypriot Greek, some stemming from CHaRM, but most reporting on her postdoctoral fellowship project.
The 21 presentations covered an impressive breadth of languages and methodologies, including Cypriot Greek, Vlach Aromanian, Homshetsma, Laz, and Romeyka, different Turkic languages, Heritage Portuguese, Sri Lanka Portuguese, Mauritian Creole, and Heritage Russian in Italy. Thematic threads ran across the three days: the grammar– pragmatics interface, morphological awareness in bi- and multilingual children, sociolinguistic variation and the media, corpus and experimental methodologies, and — in a timely addition — the capacity of large language models to handle non-standard varieties.
The final session took the form of a Methodology Roundtable Discussion, moderated by Christos Christopoulos (Masaryk University), which encouraged open dialogue across career stages, theoretical frameworks, and data collection methodologies. The workshop not only featured a dedicated early career speaker slot but also had four of our undergraduate students who presented unique research they carried out under Dr. Fotiou’s supervision in the fall 2025 semester at the University of Cyprus, thereby underscoring a commitment to supporting junior researchers in the field.