Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology

Joseph M. Tronsky Memorial Annual International Conference


June 22–24, 2020

About the Conference

The conference is dedicated to a wide range of topics related to the fields of Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology.

The published materials of the previous conferences are in open access at the web-site of the journal Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology: https://tronsky.iling.spb.ru/en/issues.html?en.

Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology — XXIV

The conference has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR grant № 20-012-20001) and will be held on June 22–24, 2020 at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Due to the epidemic the conference will be held on-line on the Zoom platform. The links to conference sessions will appear in the updated conference program that will become available on this web-page on June 20.

Conference Program

Please check updates of the program below. Changes may occur due to unexpected technical issues. In order to facilitate search the information about terminated sessions will be removed from the program below in the course of the conference.

Please find the conference program and published conference materials in the .pdf format in the next section.


Program of the International Conference

INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS

AND CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY – XXIV

in Memory of Professor Joseph M. Tronsky


Opening Session

1100–1400, June 22

N. N. Kazansky. Greetings.

A. А. Alexeev. The Greek βαπτισμός and its Slavonic and Russian equivalent krъštenie. — Proceedings, pp. 732–743.

B. Mihaylova. L’expression de l’amour dans les langues indo-européennes anciennes. — Proceedings, pp. 9–23.

I. Lemeškin. (Re)construction vs. reading of an ancient Prussian text. — Proceedings, pp. 466–479.

Sessions 1500–1700, June 22

Session 1: Classical Philology

1500–1700, June 22

V. P. Kazanskienė. Where was the garden of the king of Pylos located? Interpreting the tablet PY Er 880.

A. Corso. Classical Greek Statues Made by Important Masters Described in the Epigrams of Evenus of Paros. Proceedings, pp. 151–156.

S. K. Egorova. Horace as vigneron. Proceedings, pp. 1040–1046.

G. S. Belikov. Compositional technique of Maximus of Tyre. — Proceedings, pp. 987–998.

I. D. Popova. Means of denomination of a rhetorical period in Latin: ambitus and circu(m)itus. — Proceedings, pp. 1070–1079.

Session 2: Celtic and Germanic Philology

1500–1700, June 22

T. A. Mikhailova. The use of 2 Sg. in Irish marginal lyrics: an interpretation. — Proceedings, pp. 430–442.

E. A. Sorokina. A note on the graphic variability of Old English gedryht / gedriht. — Proceedings, pp. 311–324.

V. A. Bondar’. From resultative to anterior: on the history of English past perfect tense. — Proceedings, pp. 339–352.

Session 3: Balkan Studies

1500–1700, June 22

M. Kisilier. Ότι, που and πως in Standard Modern Greek. — Proceedings, pp. 554–577.

L. D. Bondar. One Montenegrin document from archive papers of P. A. Lavrov: about the ethnographic interests of the academician and the Montenegrin Vučković family. — Proceedings, pp. 578–592.

D. V. Konior. Perception of borders and local vernaculars by Western Bulgarian Torlak people. — Proceedings, pp. 538–553.

M. V. Domosiletskaya. Terminology of dairy production in the dialect of the Macedonian village Peshtani (based on MDABL — «Minor Dialect Atlas of the Balkan languages»). — Proceedings, pp. 504–537.

A. N. Sobolev. Dialect coherence of the speech production in Timok patoi of Serbian (on the data from the Petruša idiom in Knjaževac municipality). — Proceedings, pp. 486–503.

Session 4: Methodology of Comparative Linguistics

1500–1700, June 22

A. Yu. Zheltov, E. V. Zheltova. Why the language saves on the case forms, or about the order of cases in Latin. — Proceedings, pp. 1047–1069.

E. V. Korovina. Jackknife resampling: some remarks about the stability of the language classification. — Proceedings, pp. 1135–1140.

O. A. Voloshina. Vidhi rules in the grammar of Panini as an instruction for building the word forms. — Proceedings, pp. 65–72.


Sessions 1100–1400, June 23

Session 1: Classical Philology

1100–1400, June 23

A. A. Braylovskaya. Metric features of athematic dat. sg. inflection in Homeric text. — Proceedings, pp. 942–963.

S. A. Kharlamova. On a Homeric quotation (Il. XXIV, 527–528) in Plutarch’s «De audiendis poetis». — Proceedings,

pp. 930–941.

M. N. Kazanskaya. Vergilian Commentators on Homeric Elements in Aen. 1, 81ff. — Proceedings, pp. 999–1020.

A. V. Kotova. Comparative analysis of quantitative characteristics of distribution of similes in Virgil’s “Aeneid” and Valerius Flaccus’ “Argonautica”. — Proceedings, pp. 1021–1033.

Session 2: Hittite Studies

1100–1400, June 23

E. A. Lyutikova, A. V. Sideltsev. Voice alternations in Hittite non-finite verbal forms. — Proceedings, pp. 234–263.

A. Mouton, I. S. Yakubovich. Proleptic Construction in the Luwian Language. — Proceedings, pp. 206–233.

A. V. Shatskov. Resultative and perfect in Hittite. — Proceedings, pp. 264–273.

M. A. Molina. Topic and word order in the Hittite phrase.

Session 3: Russian Philology

1100–1400, June 23

G. A. Molkov. On the causes for the emergence of the common graphic system in the Old Russian writing. — Proceedings, pp. 744–755.

T. Vs. Rozhdestvenskaia. Some problems of paleographic dating of epigraphy searches of Old Rus’ epigraphy. — Proceedings, pp. 1088–1104.

A. I. Falileyev. In provincia Russlond: fragments on Novgorod in a XV c. manuscript. — Proceedings, pp. 756–767.

N. V. Kareva, N. A. Kuznetsova. Poetic and grammatical figures in “Materials for Russian Grammar” by Mikhail Lomonosov. — Proceedings, pp. 768–784.

Session 4: Oriental Studies

1100–1400, June 23

A. V. Safronov. The history of the «Marshland Wadjet» and the problem of Iranian anthroponyms in the Satrap stela.

Proceedings, pp. 1187–1208.

I. V. Bogdanov. The modal construction m-SAw ‘the one who is destined’ on the Israel Stele, 25–26 and the features of its use in the Neo-Egyptian. — Proceedings, pp. 1167–1186.

K. F. Karlova. Seth as serpent fighter and St. George: continuity of the iconographic type. — Proceedings, pp. 1209–1224.


Sessions 1500–1700, June 23

Session 1: Classical Philology

1500–1700, June 23

E. V. Yanzina, O. V. Korneev. Στεφανοῦσθαι, ἡττᾶσθαι, ἱερὸν ποιεῖν. To win a contest or to loose? Some features of the attitude of ancient Greeks towards athletic victories and defeats. — Proceedings, pp. 913–929.

E. V. Prikhodko. «The prophecy has fallen out» — does this word combination indicate the use of lots? — Proceedings, pp. 894–912.

O. V. Ivanenko. The Circumpontic region ethnonymicon. II (Ἀγαυóι = Σαῖοι = Παραλάται = Σκύϑαι = Σκóλοτοι?).

Proceedings, pp. 86–106.

Ch. V. Duerrschnabel. Greek and Latin defixiones and Prayers for Justice within the context of Mediterranean Ritual Texts.

Proceedings, pp. 274–275.

Session 2: Language of Early Christian Texts

1500–1700, June 23

L. V. Shulyakov. Views on personal eschatology in Hebrew and Greek versions of the Book of Job (Job 14:10–15 and Job 19:25–27). — Proceedings, pp. 1141–1156.

I. A. Mirolyubov. Was Emperor Licinius Hostile to Education? — Proceedings, pp. 703–711.

M. V. Shumilin. Linguistic Peculiarities in the Passio Susannae (BHL 7937). Phonology and Orthography. — Proceedings, pp. 632–661.

A. B. Chernyak. Passive voice in Itinerarium Egeriae. W. van Oorde on the language of Itinerarium Egeriae. — Proceedings, pp. 662–668.


Session 3: German Philology

1500–1700, June 23

N. Ganina. Die Verwandtschaftsterminologie im lübischen Recht. — Proceedings, pp. 353–362.

N. A. Bondarko. Syntactic Transformations in Late Medieval German Translations from Latin (William of St-Thierry and Birgitta of Sweden). — Proceedings, pp. 363–382.

L. Naiditsch. ‚Haus‘ und ‚Hof‘ in den deutschen Inselmundarten der Ukraine in den 1920er Jahren nach dem Archiv von Viktor Schirmunski. — Proceedings, pp. 964–972.

Session 4: Oriental Studies

1500–1700, June 23

E. N. Duvakin. Wind knots and stone roots: a steppe influence on North European folklore. — Proceedings, pp. 24–40.

V. V. Emelianov. Sumerian ezen: ideography and etymology. — Proceedings, pp. 1157–1166.

B. E. Alexandrov. The formula ana/ištu sag-du-šu/ši in legal texts from Hittite Emar. — Proceedings, pp. 276–301.


Sessions 1100–1400, June 24

Session 1: Classical Philology

1100–1400, June 24

E. S. Danilov. Use of securitas in Latin epigraphic finds from Roman Africa: general observations. — Proceedings,

pp. 694–702.

A. V. Podossinov. Alter orbis terrarum: «other worlds» in ancient geography. — Proceedings, pp. 607–631.

D. E. Afinogenov. Pejorative connotations of the ethnonym “Syrian” in some 9th century Byzantine literary works.

Proceedings, pp. 724–731.

Session 2: Texts of the Late Antiquity

1100 –1400, June 24

O. V. Kulishova, A. D. Panteleev. Controversy about the spectacles in the Late Roman Empire (according to the literary and hagiographic tradition). — Proceedings, pp. 712–723.

A. Yu. Bratukhin. Soteriological terminology of Clement of Alexandria (ἀνάπαυσις and κατάπαυσις). — Proceedings,

pp. 669–678.

I. V. Khor’kova. On the source base of “Adversus nationes”: Valerius Antias. — Proceedings, pp. 679–693.

N. V. Braginskaya. How many co-martyrs did Perpetua and Felicity have?

Session 3: Indo-European Linguistics

1100–1400, June 24

G. Blažienė. Baltische Spuren in Ortsnamen Europas? — Proceedings, pp. 443–465.

N. N. Kazansky. Mycenaean masculine name ma-di and Greek names Σμέρδις, Σμερδίης, Σμέρδιος, Σμέρδης. — Proceedings, pp. 107–128.

A. I. Iliadi. Iranian Relicts in the Slovak Historical Toponymy — III. — Proceedings, pp. 76–85.

P. A. Kocharov. PIE *kieu-e/o- ‘move’ as a lexico-morphological isogloss. — Proceedings, pp. 190–205.

A. Nikolaev. Μαῖρα and other Dangerous Women. — Proceedings, pp. 885–893.

Session 4: Morphology and Accentuation

1100–1400, June 24

T. G. Davydov. Ancient Greek words violating the word end rule. — Proceedings, pp. 964–972.

А. А. Еvdokimova. Accentuation systems of Byzantine times: sphragides from the Dumbarton Oaks collection (https://www.doaks.org/resources/seals).

S. G. Bolotov. «I glagol'nykh okonchaniy kolokol» [«And the bell of verbal endings . . .»]: Some considerations on the relationship between Latin infect and perfect verbal stems.

G. Vorobyev. Theodore Gaza’s neologisms in -cilla/-cula and the role of sixteenth-century reference books in the formation of ornithological nomenclature. — Proceedings, pp. 794–818.

A. Scala. Short and long present inflection in Romani. — Proceedings, pp. 73–75.

Closing Session

1500–1700, June 24

Yu. K. Kusmenko. On the interpretation of the inscription on the helmet B from Negau. — Proceedings, pp. 395–421.

A. V. Lebedev. A study of conceptual metaphor in Heraclitus: metaphorical codes and models of the cosmos. — Proceedings, pp. 843–884.

I. Vasileva, M. Kisilier. Where does Odysseus sail to? About a myth­making project of Nikos Kazantzakis. — Proceedings, pp. 157–180.

Closing remarks


Conference program

Tronsky Conference 24_Program_en_18_06.pdf

Conference materials, Volume 1

Tronsky Conference 24_vol_1.pdf

Conference materials, Volume 2

Tronsky Conference 24_vol_2.pdf

Contacts

For further information, please, contact the organizing committee: nkazansky@iling.spb.ru.

Conference venue

This year the conference will be held distantly using the Zoom platform.

Head of the organizing committee

Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor Dr. Nikolai Kazansky