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

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

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?

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

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...

John Clayton | “A heteroclitic origin of Vedic -yu-stems?“

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...

Klaus | Vedic suffix ablaut is prosodically-driven vowel deletion, not proterokinesis

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...

David Goldstein | An Event-Based Model for Linguistic Phylogenetics

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

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...

Valentina Lunardi | “Tracing semantic change with word embeddings: the case of Christian Latin”

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

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...

John Clayton | Minerva, caterva, and sonorant metathesis: Arguments against a sound law by Rix

This week, we will meet from 2:30pm-4:30pm on Wednesday, June 5th only on Zoom  (https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98615752517?pwd=7H7aGFmc0O00F0STNRGVUt0Xx21JH2.1). Our last seminar this year(!) will feature John Clayton who will share with us a practice talk of his ECIEC presentation with the title  "Minerva, caterva, and sonorant metathesis: Arguments against a sound law by Rix“.

Chengzhi Zhang | Cross-morphemic laryngeal coloring in PIE: a short survey

We will be having a special meeting of grad sem this week from 2:30pm-4:30pm via Zoom on Wednesday at the following link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/5246292900 Chengzhi Zhang will give us a preview of his ECIEC paper with a presentation titled "Cross-morphemic laryngeal coloring in PIE: a short survey". 

Muhammad Rehan | A syllabification-based account of word-medial operation of Saussure-Hirt effect

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

We will start meeting for grad seminar today, Monday (October 7th) between 4-6pm in Dodd 247 and on zoom. The first presentation of this quarter will be by Muhammad Rehan, whose presentation is titled “A syllabification-based account of word-medial operation of Saussure-Hirt effect.” As usual, the seminar will be accompanied by food, but please BYOB...

WeCIEC 35

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA

The Thirty-Fifth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference will be held in room 314 of Royce Hall (10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90095) at the University of California, Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday, October 25-26, 2024. Click here to see the schedule.