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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...

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...