Professor 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.
Read MoreAssociate Professor David Goldstein will be giving an invited talk at the UC Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium on 9 November. The talk is entitled “Correlated grammaticalization: The rise of articles in Indo-European.” See here for more details.
Read MoreLecturer Tony Yates has been awarded a new appointment as a Humboldt Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, to begin January 2021. Though we are sad he is leaving, we wish Tony all the best!
Read MoreAssociate Professor David Goldstein has published a new article “Indo-European phylogenetics with R: A tutorial introduction” in Indo-European Linguistics. The article may be found here. 2020. Indo-European phylogenetics with R: A tutorial introduction, Indo-European Linguistics 8.1:1–71
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