Topics: Analogical changes affecting word prominence location — Sound changes affecting word prominence location — Word prominence shifts as sound changes in themselves? Suggested reading (one or more of the following): (a) On changes of stress position between ancient and modern Greek: • Holton, D., Horrocks, G., Janssen, M., Lendari, T., Manolessou, I., and Toufexis,...

Topics: Is ‘demorphologisation’ a thing? — Stress system change in Mapudungun — Stress system change in English Suggested reading: one or more of the following, on ‘demorphologisation’ (a–d), stress change in Mapudungun (e), and stress change in English (f). (a) Some critique of my 2006 proposal on ‘demorphologisation’ in the prehistory of Greek (for a...

Suggested reading (one or more of the following): (a) Parsons, J. 1999. ‘A new approach to the Saturnian verse and its relation to Latin prosody’. Transactions of the American Philological Association 129: 117–37 (especially pp. (117–23)). or https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/192ecse/cdi_openaire_primary_doi_1917adf9afa0782c4286215d73ce08c7 (b) Jacobs, H. 2003a. ‘Why preantepenultimate stress in Latin requires an OT account’. In P. Fikkert and...

Suggested reading: one or more of the following, on the origins of the law of limitation (a, b) and/or on its synchronic analysis (c, d). (a) Probert, P. 2012. ‘Origins of the Greek law of limitation’. In P. Probert and A. Willi (eds), Laws and rules in Indo-European. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 163–81. YRL; P561...

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The first session will cover Khotanese and Ossetic. A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here.

We are excited to welcome Professor Ronald Kim of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. A full schedule can be found below: For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here. We hope to see you there!

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The second session will cover Khotanese and Ossetic. A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here.

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The third session will cover Khotanese and Ossetic. A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here.

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The fourth session will cover Tocharian. A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here.

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The fifth session will be split into two parts: Part 1 – Case-marking in Ossetic, Tocharian, and Indo-European Part 2 – Position of Tocharian in Indo-European (why these languages matter for IE) A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing...