WeCIEC 36

Day 1: Friday, October 24, 2025

9:00–9:15 AM

Opening remarks

Panel I, chaired by Joel Erickson

  • 9:15–9:45 AM

    Benjamin W. Fortson IV

    University of Michigan

    Polymorphously Perverse Presents in Greek

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 9:45–10:15 AM

    Jesse Lundquist

    Princeton University

    προπάροιθε πόλιος ‘Before the City’: The “Proterokinetic” i-Stem Genitive Singular, Prehistory, and Potential Archaisms in Ancient Greek Epic

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 10:15–10:45 AM

    Elisa Migliaretti

    UCLA

    Homeric Greek “Total” Reduplication Is Partial Reduplication

    Abstract

    Slides

10:45–11:00 AM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Muhammad Rehan

  • 11:00–11:30 AM

    Jared S. Klein

    University of Georgia

    On the Marking of Structural Resolution (s.v.a. Apodosis) in Indo-European

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 11:30 AM–12:00 PM

    Ian Hollenbaugh

    Washington University, St. Louis

    State Filter: Rethinking the Semantics of the Perfect

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 12:00–12:30 PM

    Kazuhiko Yoshida

    Kyoto Sangyo University

    Some Notes on PIE Mediopassive Endings

    Abstract

    Handout

12:30–2:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by David Goldstein (UCLA)

  • 2:30–3:30 PM

    Barbara McGillivray

    King’s College London

    Computational Approaches to Historical Semantics

3:30–3:45 PM

Break

Panel III, chaired by Arjun Srirangarajan

  • 3:45–4:15 PM

    Marc Canby, Sean Liu, Donald Ringe, Steven Evans, and Tandy Warnow

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Pennsylvania; University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Reconsidering the Indo-European Tree using Lexical Polymorphisms

    Abstract

    Slides

  • 4:15–4:45 PM

    Muhammad Rehan, Sean Liu, and Marc Canby

    UCLA; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Converging Computational Evidence against an East Germanic Clade

    Abstract

    Slides

4:45–5:00 PM

Break

Panel IV, chaired by Jieyu Zhang

  • 5:00–5:30 PM

    Valentina Lunardi and David Goldstein

    UCLA

    The punctuated evolution of Christian loan-words in Latin

    Abstract

     

  • 5:30–6:00 PM

    Dita Frantiková

    Charles University, Prague

    Digital Hittite: Clause-linking with ta as a Test Case for Corpus-based Linguistics

    Abstract

    Slides

6:00–6:15 PM

End-of-day remarks

Day 2: Saturday, October 25, 2025

Panel V, chaired by Aidan Holmgren

  • 9:00–9:30 AM

    Ronald I. Kim

    Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

    A New Look at Variation in Gothic Word-final Fricative Devoicing

    Abstract

    Slides

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Ramón Boldt

    FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

    The jan-Verbs in Old Norwegian

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Andranik Nahapetian [not delivered]

    Free University of Berlin

    A Forgotten 19th-century Etymology: Classical Armenian hangrowan

    Abstract

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel VI, chaired by Zoë Tavares Bennett

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Marina Benedetti and Michele Bianconi

    Università per Stranieri di Siena; Oxford University

    The Syntax of the Schema Pindaricum in Greek and Anatolian: Contact, Inheritance, or Independent Developments?

    Abstract

    Slides

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Greta Galeotti

    Harvard University

    Verba Vocalia and Poetic Innovation: The Case of ἀδικήει in Sappho 1

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 11:45 AM–12:15 PM

    Luke Giuntoli

    University of Washington

    Goats in Indo-European Myth and Ritual

    Abstract

    Handout

12:15–1:45 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Tony Yates (UCLA)

  • 1:45–2:45 PM

    Elisabeth Rieken

    Philipps University Marburg

    Hittite: How to Develop a Language of Culture

    Slides

2:45–3:00 PM

Break

Panel VII, chaired by Nicholas Guymon

  • 3:00–3:30 PM

    Spiridon Iosif Capotos

    Boston University

    Pseudo-Sabellic Forms in Plautus: A non–Latin Characterization of the servus rusticus

    Abstract

    Slides

  • 3:30–4:00 PM

    Jasmim Drigo

    University of Galway

    Latin Borrowings in Old Irish: A Methodological Survey

    Abstract

    Handout

  • 4:00–4:30 PM

    Joseph F. Eska

    Virginia Tech

    Realism and Ultra-realism in Historical Phonology: Focus on the Origin of the Insular Celtic Initial Mutations

    Abstract

    Slides

4:30–4:45 PM

Break

Panel VIII, chaired by Anup Dhamala

  • 4:45–5:15 PM

    Thiago Mendes Venturott

    University of Würzburg

    Unselected Object Constructions in the Ṛgveda

    Abstract

    Slides

  • 5:15–5:45 PM

    Yexin Qu

    Cornell University

    Is Ahura Mazda Left-handed? Asymmetry in Old Avestan Relativization

    Abstract

    Handout

5:45–6:00 PM

Closing remarks