Schedule
Day 0
Thursday, June 23
4:00 – 7:00
Informal welcoming event at the Department of Linguistics, Boylston Hall 3rd floor
Day 1
Friday, June 24
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, B04
9:00 – 10:30
9:00
9:30
10:00
Session 1
Elisabeth Rieken (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Luwian šarḫ- and congeners
Kazuhiko Yoshida (Kyoto Sangyo University)
The Hittite third plural preterites in -i̯aer
Dita Frantíková (Charles University, Prague)
The PIE background of Hittite nominal i-stems
10:30 – 11:00
BREAK
11:00 – 12:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
Session 2
Anthony Yates (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
ḫašš- ‘ash’, ḫašša- ‘hearth’, and the properties of non-primary derivatives in Hittite and Indo-European
Marek Majer (University of Łódź)
The etymology of Albanian kot ‘in vain’
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University) and Adam Hyllested (University of Copenhagen)
Albanian’s relations within Indo-European
12:30 – 2:00
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 – 3:30
2:00
2:30
3:00
Session 3
Mark Hale (Concordia University)
Iliad 1.20
Andrew Merritt (Cornell University)
Setting a long story straight: Attic εὐθύς ‘straight’, Ionic ῑ᾽θύς ‘id.’, and Vedic sādhú- ‘id.’
Jeremy Rau (Harvard University)
Greek Dialects in the 2nd Millennium. Part 2
3:30 – 3:45
BREAK
3:45 – 4:45
3:45
4:15
Session 4
Jared Klein (University of Georgia) [full paper]
Asyndetic verbal pairs in the Classical Armenian gospels and their treatment in the other five first millennium C.E. Indo-European versions
Olav Hackstein (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). [slides]
When words coalesce II: Preverb incorporation in Indo-European
4:45 – 5:00
BREAK
5:00 – 6:00
5:00
5:30
Session 5
Stephanie Jamison (University of California - Los Angeles)
Philological marginalia to the Vedic dā́tivāra ‘type’
Ian Hollenbaugh (Washington University in St. Louis).
The pragmatics of the R̥gvedic injunctive
7:00 – 9:00
Conference dinner for speakers at Harvard Faculty Club
Day 2
Saturday, June 25
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
8:45 – 10:15
8:45
9:15
9:45
Session 6
Dieter Gunkel (University of Richmond) and Kevin Ryan (Harvard University)
Grave concerns
Georges-Jean Pinault (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
The Greek terpsimbrotos case again
José Luis García Ramón (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Hittite tarai-ḫḫi ‘to become weary, exert oneself’, Greek τείρo/ε-, Lat. tero/e-
10:15 – 10:40
BREAK
10:40 – 12:10
10:40
11:10
11:40
Session 7
Timothy Barnes (University of Cambridge)
Some interesting Khotanese and Sogdian forms
Ronald I. Kim (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
The Indo-Iranian background of the Ossetic future
Martin Kümmel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Non liquet? A parallel homophony and its background: Italic *leikʷ- and Iranic *raik- ‘to leave’ and ‘to flow’
12:10 – 1:40
LUNCH BREAK
1:40 – 3:00
1:40
2:00
2:30
Session 8
Craig Melchert (University of California - Los Angeles)
Hittite waqqariye/a- ‘to fail’ and wakka:- ‘to lack’
Petra Goedegebuure (University of Chicago). [slides]
Digging for data: a formal-semantic and propositional logical approach to focus in Hittite
Chengzhi Zhang (University of California - Los Angeles)
The non-i-mutated thematic substantive suffix -šḫa- in Luwian
3:00 – 3:15
BREAK
3:15 – 4:45
3:15
3:45
4:15
Session 9
Michael Weiss (Cornell University) [extended handout]
Syncope in Latin -tis stems and the Latin ethnic adjectives in -ā(ti)s and -ī(ti)s
Joseph F. Eska (Virginia Tech)
Remarks on the Carona (Bergamo) inscriptions
Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard University)
The Latin derivational suffix -bēs and dhe/o-presents in Italic
4:45 – 5:00
BREAK
5:00 – 6:00
5:00
5:30
Session 10
Benjamin Fortson (University of Michigan)
To *-ē- or not to *-ē-: The origin of the Armenian i-conjugation
Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Throwing a tantum: Voice morphology in denominal ‘statives’ revisited
Evening Party
Day 3
Sunday, June 26
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
9:00 – 10:30
9:00
9:30
9:50
10:10
Session 11
Brent Vine (University of California - Los Angeles).
South Oscan κλοπουστ
Hannes Fellner (Universität Wien)
Derivation by phrase
Melanie Malzahn (Universität Wien)
Troublesome Tocharian color terms
Sasha Nikolaev (Boston University)
Greek μα(ρ)π-
10:30 – 11:00
BREAK
11:00 – 12:10
11:00
11:20
11:50
12:10
Session 12
Birgit Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
Youthful warbands, wolf packs and lone wolves – some linguistic considerations
Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (Háskoli Íslands)
North Germanic animal terms revisited: OIcel. bassi, gassi, bessi, kussi — and *hrussi?
Jay Jasanoff (Harvard University)
Rethinking Stang’s Law
END OF CONFERENCE