This is the schedule of the 6th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on May 26–28, 1994 at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Day 1: Thursday, May 26, 1994
Opening Remarks by Hartmut Scharfe (UCLA)
Panel I, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)
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9:30–10:00 AM
Andrea Calabrese
Harvard University
Siever’s Law and Syllabification in Proto-Indo-European
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10:00–10:30 AM
Brigette L. M. Bauer
University of Nijmegen
‘Agents’ in the Oblique Case in Latin
Break
Panel I, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
Saul Levin
SUNY Birmingham
‘Snow’, an Early Indo-European Loan-word in Semitic
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11:15–11:45 AM
Joseph F. Eska
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
On Syllabification and Epenthesis in Hispano-Celtic
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Tomoyuki Inoue (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Fred C. Woudhuizen
Nederlands Archeologisch-Historisch Genootschap
The Late Hittite Empire in the Light of Recently Discovered Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts
Break
Panel II, chaired by Tomoyuki Inoue (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
John Dingley
York University
Animacy in Indo-European Languages
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3:15–3:45 PM
Murray Eiland
The Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
Parthian Archaeology in Western Asia
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3:45–4:15 PM
Nikolay P. Grinzer
Harvard University
Indo-European Etymology vs. Semantics (the Case of Greek aletheia)
Day 2: Friday, May 27, 1994
Panel III, chaired by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)
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9:30–10:00 AM
Edwin D. Floyd
University of Pittsburgh
Linguistic and Literary Arguments for Mycenaean Doric
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10:00–10:30 AM
Joshua T. Katz
Harvard University
The Celtic and Indo-European Background of Old Irish sní and sí: Some Methodological Issues in the Reconstruction of Personal Pronouns
Break
Panel III, chaired by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
Martin E. Huld
California State University, Los Angeles
Sex, Gemination and the Germanic Etymologist
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11:15–11:45 AM
Karlene Jones-Bley
UCLA
Indo-European Archaeology—What Is It and Why Is It Important?
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Deborah Anderson (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Elizabeth J.W. Barber
Occidental College
A Slavic Marriage of Indo-European and Substrate Folk Traditions: ‘The Frog Princess’
Break
Panel IV, chaired by Deborah Anderson (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
Nikolai N. Kazansky
Harvard University
Thesaurus Indo-Europeicus: A Project
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3:15–3:45 PM
David L. Nelson
University of Pittsburgh
Athena and Minerva
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3:45–4:15 PM
Angelique Gulermovich
UCLA
Hooded Spirits and the Irish Cucullatus
Day 3: Saturday, May 28, 1994
Panel V, chaired by Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA)
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9:30–10:00 AM
Carol F. Justus
San Jose State University
Indo-European Grammaticalization of Epistemic Modality
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10:00–10:30 AM
Bill J. Darden
University of Chicago
Aspect, Tense and Conjugation Class in PIE
Break
Panel V, chaired by Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA)
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10:45–11:15 AM
L. Brockman
Dare University
A Note on the Goat
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11:15–11:45 AM
Anatoly Liberman
University of Minnesota
On the History of Laughter
Lunch
Featured Speaker, introduced by Hanns-Peter Schmidt (UCLA)
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1:30–2:30 PM
Bernfried Schlerath
Freie Universität Berlin
George Dumézil and the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Culture
Break
Panel VI, chaired by Hanns-Peter Schmidt (UCLA)
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2:45–3:15 PM
Heidi Waltz
UC Riverside
Causative Background of Selective Non-nominative Construction in Germanic
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3:15–3:45 PM
Dean A. Miller
University of Rochester
On the Mythology of Indo-European Heroic Hair
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3:45–4:15 PM
Hartmut Scharfe
UCLA
Grassman’s and Bartholomae’s Laws in Conflict