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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...

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

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

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...

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

Dodd 247 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

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...