Codex Latinus Monacensis (clm) 4660: Further evidence for the proclitic nature of Latin prepositions | Nick Guymon

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We will be meeting for Week 6 on Wednesday, May 6 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh For week 6, we are very excited to have two talks: Donka Minkova will give a presentation titled "Pre-1500 onset cluster reduction in English: Competing modes of actuation". Nick Guymon will talk...

Block Seminar 2026 | PD Dr. Sergio Neri

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome PD Dr. Sergio Neri to teach our Block Seminar this year. It is titled Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony. A schedule and bibliography can be found below. External linguistic history of Albanian (05/18): Indo-European prehistory; contacts with the Paleo-Balkan languages; relationship and isoglosses with Thracian, Illyrian, and Messapic; loanwords from Ancient...

Block Seminar 2026 | Session 1, External linguistic history of Albanian

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome PD Dr. Sergio Neri to teach our Block Seminar this year. It is titled Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony. A schedule and bibliography can be found below. External linguistic history of Albanian (05/18): Indo-European prehistory; contacts with the Paleo-Balkan languages; relationship and isoglosses with Thracian, Illyrian, and Messapic; loanwords from Ancient...

Block Seminar 2026 | Session 2, Albanian phonology

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome PD Dr. Sergio Neri to teach our Block Seminar this year. It is titled Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony. A schedule and bibliography can be found below. External linguistic history of Albanian (05/18): Indo-European prehistory; contacts with the Paleo-Balkan languages; relationship and isoglosses with Thracian, Illyrian, and Messapic; loanwords from Ancient...

Block Seminar 2026 | Session 3, Major sound changes

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome PD Dr. Sergio Neri to teach our Block Seminar this year. It is titled Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony. A schedule and bibliography can be found below. External linguistic history of Albanian (05/18): Indo-European prehistory; contacts with the Paleo-Balkan languages; relationship and isoglosses with Thracian, Illyrian, and Messapic; loanwords from Ancient...

Block Seminar 2026 | Session 4, Nominal and pronominal morphology

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome PD Dr. Sergio Neri to teach our Block Seminar this year. It is titled Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony. A schedule and bibliography can be found below. External linguistic history of Albanian (05/18): Indo-European prehistory; contacts with the Paleo-Balkan languages; relationship and isoglosses with Thracian, Illyrian, and Messapic; loanwords from Ancient...

Block Seminar 2026 | Session 5, Albanian numerals and verbal morphology

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome PD Dr. Sergio Neri to teach our Block Seminar this year. It is titled Albanian: Synchrony and Diachrony. A schedule and bibliography can be found below. External linguistic history of Albanian (05/18): Indo-European prehistory; contacts with the Paleo-Balkan languages; relationship and isoglosses with Thracian, Illyrian, and Messapic; loanwords from Ancient...

Root vocalism and stem pairing patterns in the Greek thematic aorist | Chengzhi Zhang

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 9 on Wednesday, May 27 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, our recent PIES alum Chengzhi Zhang will present some results from his dissertation in a talk titled "Root vocalism and stem pairing patterns in the Greek thematic aorist". As...

The Indo-European denominative statives in Luwian | Tony Yates

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Our last grad sem meeting for this academic year (!) will take place on Wednesday, June 3 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we are excited to hear from Tony Yates, who will be doing a dry-run of his ECIEC presentation titled "The Indo-European denominative statives in...

Brent Vine lectures on the origins of the Roman alphabet at Hokkaido University

Brent Vine, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Indo-European Studies, will give a lecture titled "The Real Background of the So-Called 'Roman' Alphabet" at the SRC Seminar History Meets Linguistics II, hosted by the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University (Room 403 and online), on Friday, September 25, 2026, 16:00 to 17:15 JST (12:00 to 1:15...