Program

The Oxford Workshop on Indo-European Accentuation took place on Thursday July 15 and Friday July 16, 2021. The final conference program along with abstracts of the papers is posted below (available in PDF form here). Events are listed at their local time in Oxford (BST); the equivalent CET and EDT times are listed for each panel.

Thursday, July 15

• 12:00 – 13:00 BST — Opening reception

  • Coffee and tea in the Buttery for on-site participants.

  • Virtual workshop participants and attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee/tea and meet in the Discord rooms associated with the workshop

• 13:00 – 13:15 BST — Opening remarks (Leonard Wolfson Auditorium; delivered by Jesse Lundquist)

Session 1 (Respondent: John Lowe):

13:15 – 14:45 BST (= 14:15 – 15:45 CET / 8:15 – 9:45 EDT)

• Martin Kümmel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): "Accentual mobility in polysyllables: innovation or archaism?" (abstract)

• Mark Hale (Concordia University): "Some Issues in Indo-Iranian Accent and Ablaut" (abstract)

• Götz Keydana (Göttingen University): "Der Akzent ist mannigfach, or: How compositional is morphological accent in Vedic?" (abstract)

• 14:45 – 15:15 BST – Coffee break

Session 2 (Respondent: Pat Snivdvongs):

15:15 – 17:15 BST (= 16:15 – 18:15 CET / 10:15 – 12:15 EDT)

• Thomas Olander (University of Copenhagen): "A phylogenetic perspective on Indo-European accentuation" (abstract)

• Anthony Yates (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "Indo-European Word Prosody and the Impact of Anatolian" (abstract)

• Bernhard Koller (Austrian Academy of Sciences): "Morphologically conditioned accent and cyclic derivation in Tocharian B" (abstract)

• Brent Vine (University of California, Los Angeles): "Initial-syllable Reduction and Early Italic Accent" (abstract)

• 17:15 – 19:15 BST – Dinner/supper/lunch break

Keynote address

19:30 – 20:45 PM BST (= 20:30 – 21:45 CET / 14:30 – 15:45 EDT)

• Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University): "From Indo-European to Baltic and Slavic: Implications of the Compositional Approach" (abstract)

• (Introduced by Anthony Yates)

Friday, July 16

• 12:30 – 13:00 BST — Morning reception:

  • Coffee and tea in the Buttery for on-site participants.

  • Virtual workshop participants and attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee/tea and meet in the Discord rooms associated with the workshop.

Session 3 (Respondent: Philomen Probert):

13:00 – 14:30 BST (= 14:00 – 15:30 CET / 8:00 – 9:30 EDT)

• Dieter Gunkel (University of Richmond): "Musical evidence for low boundary tones in ancient Greek" (abstract)

• Eric Dieu (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès): "Recessive accentuation and columnar accentuation in ancient Greek nominal paradigms" (abstract)

• Lucien van Beek (Leiden University): "Indo-European accent and the vocalization of the syllabic liquids in Greek" (abstract)

• 14:30 – 15:00 BST — Coffee break

Session 4 (Respondent: Anthony Yates):

15:00 – 16:30 BST (= 16:00 – 17:30 CET / 10:00 – 11:30 EDT)

• Jesse Lundquist (University of Oxford): "Hysteron Proteron: Reconstructing accent and ablaut in Greek, Vedic, and PIE Compounds" (abstract)

• Ronald I. Kim (Adam Mickiewicz University): "O-ner of a lonely monk? Armenian evidence for the pattern of Greek πατήρ : εὐ-πάτωρ" (abstract)

• Ryan Sandell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "From Lexical Accent System to Default Stress: Questions of Learnability in Diachrony" (abstract)

• 16:30 – 18:00 BST — Lunch/dinner break

Session 5 (Respondent: Jesse Lundquist):

18:00 – 19:00 BST (= 19:00 – 20:00 CET / 13:00 – 14:00 EDT)

• Philomen Probert (Wolfson College, University of Oxford): "Ancient grammarians on ancient Greek compound accents"

• Teigo Onishi (University of California, Los Angeles): "Notes on the prosodic status of -tara- and -tama- in the Rig Veda"

• 19:00 BST — Closing remarks (delivered by Philomen Probert)

• The organisers wish to express their warmest thanks for generous support from:

  • The British Academy

  • The Lorne Thyssen Research Fund for Ancient World Topics at Wolfson College

  • The Academic Committee, Wolfson College

  • The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics