WeCIEC 1

This is the schedule of the 1st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 26–27, 1989 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Day 1: Friday, May 26, 1989

9:00–9:30 AM

Opening Remarks: Hartmut Scharfe (IES UCLA)

Panel I, chaired by Hartmut Scharfe (IES UCLA)

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Angela Della Volpe

    CSU Fullerton

    Universals of Semantic Change and Indo-European

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Jules Levin

    UC Riverside

    Thematic productivity in Lithuanian

  • 10:30–11:00 AM

    Heidi Waltz

    IES UCLA

    A comparative study of Old English and Old High German subjectless constructions

  • 11:00–11:30 AM

    Georgios Giannakis

    IES UCLA

    The Semantics of the Reduplicated thematic Present Formations in Homeric Greek

  • 11:30–12:00 PM

    Raimo Anttila

    UCLA

    Etymology and Semantics of Greek agathos

12:00–1:00 PM

Lunch

Panel II, chaired by Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA)

  • 1:00–1:30 PM

    Patrick McReynolds

    IES UCLA

    Presentation of IES computer tools

  • 1:30–2:00 PM

    Deborah Anderson (PhD UCLA) and Patrick K. Ford (UCLA)

    The Old Irish Tutorial

  • 2:00–2:30 PM

    Patrick Jost

    Geodynamics Corporation

    Hypertext and Linguistics

  • 2:30–3:00 PM

    Deborah Anderson

    PhD UCLA

    Homeric genos and gonos

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Jaan Puhvel

    UCLA

    ‘Trust’ in Hittite; the derivational string: hai–, hantai–, hantantai–

3:30–4:00 PM

Break

Panel III. chaired by Martin Huld (PhD UCLA)

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Virgil Strohmeyer

    IES UCLA

    Languages Real and Reconstructed

  • 4:30–5:00 PM

    Tomoyuki Inoue

    IES UCLA

    Japanese Indo-Europeanists

  • 5:00–5:30 PM

    Otto Sadowsky

    CS Fullerton

    Indo-European, Uralic and Penutian

  • 5:30–6:00 PM

    John Greppin

    Cleveland State U

    Ancient Anatolian Words surviving in Persian, Turkish and Armenian

6:00–

Convivium

Day 2: Saturday, May 27, 1989

Panel IV, chaired by Raimo Anttila (UCLA)

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Peter Dimitrov

    Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia; visiting professor UCLA

    Vocalic transformations in Greek related to unexplained IE phenomena

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Martin Huld

    CSULA

    Satem, Centum and Hokum

  • 10:30–11:00 AM

    John Frauzel

    IES UCLA

    Ergativity in Early Indo-European

  • 11:00–11:30 AM

    Apostolos N. Athanassakis

    UCSB & Univ. of Crete

    A.B. Cook’s reconstruction of the inflectional paradigm of Zeus

  • 11:30–12:00 PM

    Eric P. Hamp

    University of Chicago

    Wackernagel in Celtic

12:00–1:00 PM

Lunch

Panel V, chaired by Donald Ward (UCLA)

  • 1:00–1:30 PM

    Presentation to Marija Gimbutas (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:00 PM

    Karlene Jones Bley

    PhD UCLA

    ‘Fame that will live forever’ – the Indo-European tradition of Burial

  • 2:00–2:30 PM

    Miriam Robbins Dexter

    USC

    Reflections on the goddess Danu

  • 2:30–3:00 PM

    Patrick McReynolds

    IES UCLA

    Indo-European Cosmography and Cosmology

3:00–3:30 PM

Break

Panel VI, chaired by Bengt Loefstedt (UCLA)

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Hanns-Peter Schmidt

    UCLA

    The Place of Rig Veda 4,42 in the ancient Indian royal ritual

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Leigh-Anne Hansen

    PhD UCLA

    Icons of Death

  • 4:30–5:00 PM

    Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

    Academy of the Sciences of the USSR

    On the origin of the Tocharian tripartite system of deictic pronouns

  • 5:00–5:30 PM

    Martin Huld

    PhD UCLA

    Closing Remarks, and Discussion: The Future of Indo-European Studies

Reception