This is the schedule of the 3rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 23–25, 1991 at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Day 1: Thursday, May 23, 1991
Opening Remarks by Hartmut Scharfe (UCLA)
Panel I, chaired by Angela Della Volpe (UCLA)
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1:30–2:00 PM
Lynn E. Roller
University of California, Davis
An Indo-European Cultural Signature: the Case of Phrygia
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2:00–2:30 PM
Nancy Rose
Hampden-Sydney College
The name of the bear, or a bear by any other name: Semantic interlace in terms for plants and animals
Break
Featured Speaker, introduced by Karlene Jones-Bley (UCLA)
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3:00–3:45 PM
Marija Gimbutas
UCLA
The Indo-Europeanization of Europe, 4500-2500 B.C.
Break
Panel II, chaired by Georgios Giannakis (UCLA)
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4:00–4:30 PM
Sheila Embleton, Raimo Anttila
York University, UCLA
Place names in Finland: Settlement history, sociolinguistics, and the Finnish/Swedish language boundary
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4:30–5:00 PM
Heidi Waltz
UCLA
PGmc plain C-stems: a case study
Reception
Day 2: Friday, May 24, 1991
Panel III, chaired by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)
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9:30–10:00 AM
Mark Southern
Princeton University
The wandering *s: the problem of the *s-mobile in IE
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10:00–10:30 AM
Jules Levin
University of California, Riverside
Jod as a sign in Lithuanian
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Henning Andersen (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
Chris Stevens
UCLA
The use and abuse of typology in comparative linguistics: an update on the controversy
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11:15–11:45 AM
Henrik Birnbaum
UCLA
PIE — the outcome of divergence and/or convergence? Thoughts on Trubetzkoy’s “Thoughts”
Lunch Break
Featured Speaker, introduced by Jaan Puhvel (UCLA)
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1:30–2:15 PM
H. Craig Melchert
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
On the so-called “historical present” in Hittite
Break
Panel V, chaired by Patrick McReynolds (UCLA)
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2:30–3:00 PM
Jaan Puhvel
UCLA
The origin of Gothic ulbandus ‘camel’
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3:00–3:30 PM
Alan Libert
McGill University
On the semantic content of the genitive case
Dinner
Day 3: Saturday, May 25, 1991
Panel VI, chaired by John Kossman (UCLA)
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9:30–10:00 AM
Mark Stefanovich
UCLA
The social context of Indo-European: discordant illusions, reconcilement, and new directions
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10:00–10:30 AM
Adrian Poruciuc
University of Chicago
The etymology of Dacian –dava/-deva in connection with the toponymic family of Tabai, Thebai, Tapae and with the Paleobalkan phonology
Break
Featured Speaker, introduced by Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA)
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10:45–11:30 AM
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
USSR Academy of Sciences
Traces of the PIE ergative in Luwian, Tocharian, and other dialects
Lunch Break
Panel VII, chaired by Heidi Waltz (UCLA)
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1:00–1:30 PM
John Kearns
UCLA
Lydian d and the fate of Indo-European voiced obstruents in Anatolian
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1:30–2:00 PM
Martin Huld
California State University, Los Angeles
The terms for ‘wine’ and Indo-European Philology
Break
Featured Speaker, introduced by Hanns-Peter Schmidt (UCLA)
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2:15–3:00 PM
Michael Witzel
Harvard University
Post-Rigvedic Dialects
Break
Panel VIII, chaired by Mona D. Merideth (UCLA)
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3:15–3:45 PM
Patrick McReynolds
UCLA
The emanation of the primal Twin-man
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3:45–4:15 PM
George Thompson
University of California, Berkeley
On the Vedic Brahmodya: riddles and enigmas