This is the schedule of the 18th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Nov. 3–4, 2006 at the University of California, Los Angeles.
For papers with the symbol, a revised version was published in the conference’s proceedings volume; the symbol links to the program’s publication page, also available here.
Day 1: Friday, November 3, 2006
Opening Remarks
Panel I, chaired by Randall Gordon (UCLA)
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9:00–9:30 AM
H. Craig Melchert
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/UCLA
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9:30–10:00 AM
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10:00–10:30 AM
Mary Bachvarova
Willamette University
Two Areal Features in Anatolian Languages: The Sentential Particle Chain and Relational Adjective
Break
Panel II, chaired by Dieter Gunkel (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
Martin Kümmel
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
The third person endings of the Old Latin perfect and the fate of final –d in Latin
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11:15–11:45 AM
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11:45–12:15 PM
Lunch
Break
Panel III, chaired by Sherrylyn Branchaw (UCLA)
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3:00–3:30 PM
Jared S. Klein
University of Georgia
Figurae Non Etymologicae in the Rigveda: sóma-/stóma- and Similar Word-Plays
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3:30–4:00 PM
Melissa Frazier
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Accent in Proto-Indo-European Athematic Nouns and Its Development in Vedic Sanskrit
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4:00–4:30 PM
Patrick Taylor
Houghton Mifflin
Bhīṣma on the Plain of Vígríðr: Indic Perspectives on the Death of Heimdallr
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Kanehiro Nishimura (UCLA)
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4:45–5:15 PM
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5:15–5:45 PM
Hans Henrich Hock
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Day 2: Saturday, November 4, 2006
Panel V, chaired by Moss Pike (UCLA)
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9:00–9:30 AM
Paul S. Cohen, Adam Hyllested
IBM; University of Copenhagen
Initial h₃ in Anatolian and PIE: Regularity in Ostensible Chaos
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9:30–10:00 AM
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10:00–10:30 AM
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Angelo Mercado (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
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11:15–11:45 AM
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11:45–12:15 PM
Jeremy Rau
Harvard University
The Derivational History of PIE *di̯eu̯/diu̯– ‘(god of the) day-lit sky; day’
Lunch
Break
Panel VII, chaired by Tim Dempsey (UCLA)
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3:00–3:30 PM
Lisi Oliver
Louisiana State University
The Name of the Nose: Body Terminology in Early Medieval Europe
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3:30–4:00 PM
Break
Panel VIII, chaired by Andrew Byrd (UCLA)
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4:15–4:45 PM
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4:45–5:15 PM
Ronald Kim
University of Pennsylvania
Proto-Indo-European *-ye/o– Presents in Tocharian: Consensus and Contentions