Alex Roy | “No Tigers in the R̥g-Veda”: On the Hazardous Intersection of Philology, Geography, and Taxonomy

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES Graduate Seminar is meeting this week on Wed. Mar. 13th, 6.00-8.00 pm PDT, in Dodd 248, or online via the following link: PIES Grad Sem: Wed. 03/13, 6.00 - 8.00 pm (Dodd 248) https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93986086735 In this week's meeting, we will continue our AOS practice talks with Alex Roy whose presentation is titled "“No Tigers in the R̥g-Veda”: On the Hazardous Intersection of Philology, Geography, and Taxonomy". If you'd like to peruse...

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...