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THE 20th ANNUAL UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
The 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference will be held Friday–Saturday, 31 October – 1 November 2008 in Royce Hall, Room 314, on the UCLA campus.
Admission is free and open to the public. There is no charge for participation, and pre-registration is not required.
SCHEDULED PAPERS
- Philip Baldi: “The Latin Temporal Adverb semper and Its Relatives”
- Timothy Barnes: “Homeric μῶλος Ἄρηος, Hittite ḫarrai mallai : on the Etymology and Function of Ares in Mycenean, Homeric Epic and Aeolic Lyric”
- Miles Beckwith: “The Latin Imperfect and v -Perfect: A Paradigm Split”
- Eystein Dahl: “Reconstructing the Semantics of the Proto-Indo-European Imperfect”
- Miriam Dexter: “Ancient Felines and the Great-Goddess in Anatolia: Kubaba and Cybele”
- Hannes Fellner: “Thoughts about u -Presents”
- David Goldstein: “Wackernagel’s Law in Greek: The Case of ἄν”
- John Greppin: “The Hurro-Urartian Substratum in Armenian”
- Olav Hackstein: “No escape: The Etymology of Latin necesse.”
- Hans Henrich Hock: “Labiopalatalization in Indo-European Languages”
- Adam Hyllested: “Fenno-Ugric *-š- as Laryngeal Substitution in Words of Indo-European Provenance”
- Sverre Johnsen: “The Development of Voiced Labiovelars in Germanic”
- Bernhard Koller: “Schwa-Zero Alternations and Their Implications for Verbal Root Structure in Tocharian A”
- Silvia Luraghi: “The Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Gender System and the Anatolian Evidence”
- Maria Napoli: “The Impersonal Passive in Latin”
- Kanehiro Nishimura: “Vowel Deletion in Latin: A Phonological History of Its Triggering Contexts”
- Birgit Olsen: “On the Indo-European Status of Determinative Compounds”
- Jens Elmegård Rasmussen: “A Note on Anatolian i -Mutation (‘i -Motion’)”
- Martin Schwartz: “The Teleological Composition of the Gāthās : Pourucista’s Wedding (Yasna 53)”
- Nick Zair: “OIr. biid < *bhuH-ye/o- and ‘Hiatus’ Verbs”
(Plase see the Archives for programs of past conferences.)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference is funded by The Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board. We would like to thank the UCLA Graduate Student Association. The conference is also made possible through the generosity and/or 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 Dieter Gunkel, Tim Dempsey, Sherrylyn Branchaw, and Anna Pagé