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THE 18th ANNUAL UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
Admission is free and open to the public; there is no charge for participation; pre-registration is not required.
Friday, 3 November 2006, Royce Hall, Room 314
- 8:45–9:00 a.m.
- Opening Remarks
- 9:00–10:30
- Panel I—chaired by Randall Gordon (UCLA)
- 9:00–9:30
H. Craig Melchert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / UCLA)
“New Light on Hittite Verse and Meter?” - 9:30–10:00
Angelo Mercado (University of Calfornia, Santa Cruz)
“A Lydian Poem (Gusmani 11) Re-Examined” - 10:00–10:30
Mary Bachvarova (Willamette University)
“Two Areal Features in Anatolian Languages: The Sentential Particle Chain and Relational Adjective”
- 10:30–10:45
- Break
- 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
- Panel II—chaired by Dieter Gunkel (UCLA)
- 10:45–11:15
Martin Kümmel (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg)
“The third person endings of the Old Latin perfect and the fate of final -d in Latin” - 11:15–11:45
Miles Beckwith (Iona College)
“The Old Italic ō-Perfect and the Tortora Inscription” - 11:45–12:15
Birgit Anette Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
“Three Latin Phonological Details”
- 12:15–1:45
- Lunch
- 1:45–2:45
- Featured Speaker
- Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley)
“A Typological Geography for Proto-Indo-European ”
- 2:45–3:00
- Break
- 3:00–4:30
- Panel III—chaired by Sherrylyn Branchaw (UCLA)
- 3:00–3:30
Jared S. Klein (University of Georgia)
“Figurae Non Etymologicae in the Rigveda: sóma-/stóma- and Similar Word-Plays” - 3:30–4:00
Melissa Frazier (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Accent in Proto-Indo-European Athematic Nouns and Its Development in Vedic Sanskrit” - 4:00–4:30
Patrick Taylor (Houghton Mifflin)
“Bhīṣma on the Plain of Vígríðr: Indic Perspectives on the Death of Heimdallr”
- 4:30–4:45
- Break
- 4:45–5:45
- Panel IV—chaired by Kanehiro Nishimura (UCLA)
- 4:45–5:15
Emma Shoucair (Princeton University)
“The Thematic Pluperfect in Greek” - 5:15–5:45
Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Morphology and i-apocope in Slavic and Baltic”
Saturday, 4 November 2006, Royce Hall, Room 314
- 9:00–10:30 a.m.
- Panel V—chaired by Moss Pike (UCLA)
- 9:00–9:30
Paul S. Cohen (IBM) and Adam Hyllested (University of Copenhagen)
“Initial h3 in Anatolian and PIE: Regularity in Ostensible Chaos” - 9:30–10:00
Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
“Laryngeal One in Hieroglyphic Luvian” - 10:00–10:30
Kazuhiko Yoshida (Kyoto University)
“Two Irregular Mediopassives in Hittite”
- 10:30–10:45
- Break
- 10:45–11:45
- Panel VI—chaired by Angelo Mercado (UCSC)
- 10:45–11:15
Sasha Nikolaev (Harvard University)
“Indo-European *dem(h2)- 'to build': set or anit?” - 11:15–11:45
Dag Haug (University of Oslo)
“Univerbation of Adverbs and Verbs in Indo-European Languages” - 11:45–12:15
Jeremy Rau (Harvard University)
“The Derivational History of PIE *di̯eu̯/diu̯- ‘(god of the) day-lit sky; day’”
- 12:15 a.m.–1:45 p.m.
- Lunch
- 12:15–12:30
FAIES Meeting
- 1:45–2:45
- Featured Speaker
- Charles de Lamberterie (Université de Paris-Sorbonne; École Pratique des Hautes Études)
“Comparison and Reconstruction”
- 2:45–3:00
- Break
- 3:00–4:00
- Panel VII—chaired by Tim Dempsey (UCLA)
- 3:00–3:30
Lisi Oliver (Louisiana State University)
“The Name of the Nose: Body Terminology in Early Medieval Europe” - 3:30–4:00
Sverre Johnsen (Harvard University)
“Historical Derivation of Gothic aba ‘man’”
- 4:00–4:15
- Break
- 4:15–5:15
- Panel VIII—chaired by Andrew Byrd (UCLA)
- 4:15–4:45
Timothy Barnes (Harvard University)
“Tocharian klyomo” - 4:45–5:15
Ronald Kim (University of Pennsylvania)
“Proto-Indo-European *-ye/o- Presents in Tocharian: Consensus and Contentions”
- 5:15–5:30
- Closing Remarks
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Eighteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference is funded by The Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board. We would like to give thanks to the UCLA Graduate Student Association. The conference is also made possible through the generosity and efforts of:
- The A. Richard Diebold, Jr. Endowment in Indo-European Studies
- The Friends & Alumni of Indo-European Studies (FAIES)
- The Program in Indo-European Studies,
especially Stephanie Jamison - The UCLA Indo-European Studies Student Alliance (IESSA)
- The Dodd Humanities Group,
especially Heather Gould - The Annual Indo-European Conference Student Organizing
Committee,
especially Andrew Byrd