Professor Eugenio R. Luján Martínez visiting PIES

The Program in Indo-European Studies is pleased to announce a visit in October 2022 by the distinguished Indo-Europeanist Eugenio R. Luján Martínez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). During his time at UCLA, Professor Luján will deliver a series of lectures on “The Ancient Celtic Languages”.

Birgit Anette Rasmussen Olsen | Block seminar

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Birgit Anette Rasmussen Olsen of the University of Copenhagen will be giving a block seminar to the Program in Indo-European Studies. This five-session seminar will discuss Indo-European morphology, Indo-European alliances and fosterage, and the vocabulary of pastoralism. Further details may be found here.

Block Seminar 2024 | Professor Philomen Probert

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This year we are excited to welcome Professor Philomen Probert from Oxford University to teach our Block Seminar. It is titled "Greek, Latin, and diachronic change in prosodic systems: some things we know and things we would like to know" and will be held April 15th–19th. This year we are excited to welcome Professor Philomen...

Block Seminar 2024 | Session 1, Introduction

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Topics: What is prosody, and what is a prosodic system? — Why ask “what we know and what we would like to know?” — Evidence on historical word prominence — Some examples of long-term stability   Suggested readings: (a) Minkova, D. 2013. ‘Reconstructing stress in Old and Middle English’. In M. Krug and J. Schlüter...

Block Seminar 2024 | Session 2, Analogy and Sound change

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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,...

Block Seminar 2024 | Session 3, Change on a large scale

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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...

Block Seminar 2024 | Session 4, A problem: how did the classical Latin stress system come about?

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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...

Block Seminar 2024 | Session 5, Another problem: how did the Greek law of limitation come about?

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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...