Professor Stephanie Jamison will be giving a talk “What Would a Vedic Lawcode Look Like?” as part of the Georg Bühler Lecture Series at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, May 24 at 8:00 AM PDT (5:00 PM CET). The online lecture may be followed via live stream; to register, please go to: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/anmeldung/buehler-lectures-vedic-lawcode….
Read MoreProgram in Indo-European Studies graduate students Elisa Migliaretti and Paolo Sabattini have both won awards for outstanding Master’s theses in Indo-European Studies. Elisa Migliaretti received second place with her thesis “I composti pindarici: il caso degli hapax legomena nelle Pitiche” (“Pindaric Compounds: the Case of Hapax Legomena in the Pythians”; submitted at Milan), and Paolo…
Read MoreThe 232nd annual meeting of the American Oriental Society (AOS 232) is on March 18–March 21, 2022. The program features many talks by UCLA linguists: John Clayton: The Lengthening of *i, *u > ī, ū / __rC in Sanskrit Ian Hollenbaugh (alum, now at Washington University): Primary Root Aorists in Vedic: A tezzi Principle? Anahita Hoose:…
Read MoreProfessor David Goldstein has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022-23 for his project “Cascades of change: How domino effects shape language.” In this project, Professor Goldstein will examine how one linguistic change increases (or decreases) the probability of subsequent changes.
Read MoreDavid Goldstein will be giving a workshop on computational phylogenetic linguistics on May 3, 5, and 7 2021. The workshop is organized by the research project “Connecting the Dots” (Thomas Olander, Copenhagen). More information, including links for registration and the workshop description flyer, can be found here.
Read MoreJohn Clayton and Teigo Onishi will be presenting at the Linguistic Society of America 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting. John will be giving a talk entitled “Morphological change from allophonic asymmetry: Indo-Iranian nasals and directional remodeling” at 3:45 pm (PST) on Thursday 7 January. Teigo will be giving a talk entitled “Pronominal clitics in Tocharian B…
Read MoreTony Yates has published a new article “Voice Reversals and Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Hittite“, co-authored with John Gluckman (University of Kansas), in Glossa. The article may be found here. Yates, A. D., & Gluckman, J. 2020. Voice Reversals and Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Hittite. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 120. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1164
Read MoreIan Hollenbaugh has published a new article “A New Approach to Prohibitive Constructions in the R̥gveda and the Atharvaveda” in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The article may be found here. 2020. A New Approach to Prohibitive Constructions in the R̥gveda and the Atharvaveda. Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.4:777–802
Read MoreIan Hollenbaugh will be presenting a paper entitled “Prohibition Types in Ancient Greek: A Comparative Approach” at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, to be held virtually. Ian will be presenting during the first session (9:00 am – 12:00 pm) on Tuesday 5 January, 2021. The preliminary program can be found…
Read MoreTeigo Onishi will be presenting a paper entitled “Clitic doubling in Tocharian A” at the online “Tocharian in Progress” conference on Tuesday 8 December, 2020 (9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time). See here for a full schedule and information on registering.
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