WeCIEC 6

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

9:15–9:30 AM

Opening Remarks by Hartmut Scharfe (UCLA)

Panel I, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Andrea Calabrese

    Harvard University

    Siever’s Law and Syllabification in Proto-Indo-European

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Brigette L. M. Bauer

    University of Nijmegen

    ‘Agents’ in the Oblique Case in Latin

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel I, chaired by Christopher M. Stevens (UCLA)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Saul Levin

    SUNY Birmingham

    ‘Snow’, an Early Indo-European Loan-word in Semitic

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Joseph F. Eska

    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

    On Syllabification and Epenthesis in Hispano-Celtic

11:45–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Tomoyuki Inoue (UCLA)

  • 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

2:30–2:45 PM

Break

Panel II, chaired by Tomoyuki Inoue (UCLA)

  • 2:45–3:15 PM

    John Dingley

    York University

    Animacy in Indo-European Languages

  • 3:15–3:45 PM

    Murray Eiland

    The Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art

    Parthian Archaeology in Western Asia

  • 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)

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Edwin D. Floyd

    University of Pittsburgh

    Linguistic and Literary Arguments for Mycenaean Doric

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Joshua T. Katz

    Harvard University

    The Celtic and Indo-European Background of Old Irish sní and : Some Methodological Issues in the Reconstruction of Personal Pronouns

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel III, chaired by Sheila Embleton (UCLA)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    Martin E. Huld

    California State University, Los Angeles

    Sex, Gemination and the Germanic Etymologist

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Karlene Jones-Bley

    UCLA

    Indo-European Archaeology—What Is It and Why Is It Important?

11:45–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Deborah Anderson (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:30 PM

    Elizabeth J.W. Barber

    Occidental College

    A Slavic Marriage of Indo-European and Substrate Folk Traditions: ‘The Frog Princess’

2:30–2:45 PM

Break

Panel IV, chaired by Deborah Anderson (UCLA)

  • 2:45–3:15 PM

    Nikolai N. Kazansky

    Harvard University

    Thesaurus Indo-Europeicus: A Project

  • 3:15–3:45 PM

    David L. Nelson

    University of Pittsburgh

    Athena and Minerva

  • 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)

  • 9:30–10:00 AM

    Carol F. Justus

    San Jose State University

    Indo-European Grammaticalization of Epistemic Modality

  • 10:00–10:30 AM

    Bill J. Darden

    University of Chicago

    Aspect, Tense and Conjugation Class in PIE

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

Panel V, chaired by Henrik Birnbaum (UCLA)

  • 10:45–11:15 AM

    L. Brockman

    Dare University

    A Note on the Goat

  • 11:15–11:45 AM

    Anatoly Liberman

    University of Minnesota

    On the History of Laughter

11:45–1:30 PM

Lunch

Featured Speaker, introduced by Hanns-Peter Schmidt (UCLA)

  • 1:30–2:30 PM

    Bernfried Schlerath

    Freie Universität Berlin

    George Dumézil and the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Culture

2:30–2:45 PM

Break

Panel VI, chaired by Hanns-Peter Schmidt (UCLA)

  • 2:45–3:15 PM

    Heidi Waltz

    UC Riverside

    Causative Background of Selective Non-nominative Construction in Germanic

  • 3:15–3:45 PM

    Dean A. Miller

    University of Rochester

    On the Mythology of Indo-European Heroic Hair

  • 3:45–4:15 PM

    Hartmut Scharfe

    UCLA

    Grassman’s and Bartholomae’s Laws in Conflict

4:15–4:30 PM

Closing Remarks by Raimo Antilla (UCLA)