PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Nov. 29th, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Wed. 11/29, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 Tony Yates will give a practice talk entitled "Cyclicity as a Proto-Indo-European Phenomenon" for the Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical...
PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Dec. 1st, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Wed. 12/01, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 Thomas Motter will give a practice talk entitled "Proleptic correlatives and dynamic construction formation in Hittite" for the 2024 LSA Annual Meeting (https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/public/4438/information?page=1813). As usual, the seminar...
Happy New Year! PIES Graduate Seminar is resuming its weekly meetings. As last quarter, we are meeting on Wednesdays, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT in Dodd 248, starting this week on Jan. 10th. PIES Grad Sem: Thurs. 01/10, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 Muhammad Rehan will inaugurate the 2024 meetings, sharing with us the presentation "Re-mixing a piss-poor etymology: Gk. μοιχός and OE (ge)māh"....
PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Jan. 17th, 6.00-8.00 pm PST, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Thurs. 01/17, PST 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 In this week's meeting Aidan Holmgren will present "CRUS-nu-ha wani=sa*: the morphophonology of Luwian neuter nouns". As usual, the seminar is accompanied by food and drink....
PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Jan. 24th, 6.00-8.00 pm PST, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Thurs. 01/24, PST 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 In this week's meeting Nick Guymon will present "The Future Tense in Proto-Romance: Prosodic and Phonological Consequences and Evidence for Conjugation Shifts". As usual, the...
PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Feb. 28th, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Wed. 02/28, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 In this week's meeting, we are excited to welcome Andrew Bock from NELC! The title of his talk is "Wait for it: Anticipatory Genitives in Sumerian and Akkadian". This is the first of a series of practice...
PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Mar. 6th, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Wed. 03/06, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 In this week's meeting, we are continuing our series of Spring practice talks with Elisa's practice talk for CAMWS 2024 entitled "Applying for the Position of “Resident Poet”: Damophilos in Pythian 4.279–299". As...
PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Mar. 13th, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Wed. 03/13, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 In this week's meeting, we will continue our AOS practice talks with Alex Roy whose presentation is titled "“No Tigers in the R̥g-Veda”: On the Hazardous Intersection of Philology, Geography, and Taxonomy". If you'd like to peruse...
This week, we will meet from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, April 24th in Dodd 232 and on zoom (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735). After an exciting week of lectures from our block seminar speaker Philomen Probert, our very own John Clayton will kick things off this week with an extended version of his AOS talk on Sanskrit heteroclites titled "A heteroclitic origin...
Due to the campus circumstances of last week and this week, we will only meet on Zoom from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, May 8th (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99144412104?pwd=Q3BMUlhEaUhwUHp1WUtENTYxSzlkZz09). This week, we are joined by Klaus from the Department of Linguistics, who will be talking to us about proterokinetic ablaut and its phonological interpretation in Vedic with a presentation titled "Vedic...
This week, we will meet from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, May 15th in Dodd 232 and on zoom (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735). Our very own David Goldstein will give us a dry run of his EvoLang presentation titled "An Event-Based Model for Linguistic Phylogenetics". As usual, the seminar is accompanied by food and drinks. Please keep in mind that the seminar might move online if circumstances...
This week, we will meet from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, May 22nd in Dodd 232 and on zoom (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/9055112669?omn=92438946242). Our very own PhD Candidate Valentina Lunardi will share with us a snippet of her prospectus with a presentation tilted "Tracing semantic change with word embeddings: the case of Christian Latin". As usual, the seminar is...
