Latest Past Events

David Goldstein | An Event-Based Model for Linguistic Phylogenetics

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

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...

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...

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...