Elisa Migliaretti - Program in Indo-European Studies

Research

Research Interests

Indo-European Verb-Initial Compounds
Ancient Greek Compound Morphology
Ancient Greek Literature (Pindar)
Indo-European Poetics and Mythology

Research Experience

Fall 2021–June 2024: Research Assistant to Prof. David Goldstein, Department of Linguistics, UCLA

Publications

Articles

(forthcoming) From s-Stems to -εσι-Compounds: Morphosemantic Constraints on Analogical Change in Ancient Greek. In David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Anthony D. Yates (eds.). Proceedings of the 35th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Hamburg: Buske.
2024. The Rhythmic Basis of Porson’s Bridge: An Explanation of Monosyllabic Words and Clitics. In David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Anthony D. Yates (eds.). Proceedings of the 34th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Hamburg: Buske.

Thesis

2018: “L’invettiva di Timocreonte di Rodi contro Temistocle (Fr.727 Page)” (“The invective of Timokreon of Rhodes against Themistocles (Fr.727 Page)”) – BA thesis
2021: “I composti pindarici: il caso degli hapax legomena nelle Pitiche” (“Pindaric compounds: the case of hapax legomena in the Pythians”) – MA thesis

Presentations

June 2025: “Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds as an Inner-Greek Innovation” with Vasileios Michos (11th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics — Université Côte d’Azur, Nice)
June 2025: “The Homeric Greek -εσ- ~ -εσι- Alternation in First Compound Member s-Stems” (11th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics — Université Côte d’Azur, Nice)
April 2025: “Who’s counting? The Indo-European Sky and the Measurement of Time” with Riccardo Ginevra (235th Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia — Boston, MA)
December 2024: “A Failed Borrowing Process: the Case of Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds in Latin” (4th AMC Symposium: Contact and Language change — University of Edinburgh)
September 2024: “The Sources of Greek Compounds in -εσι-: A Work in Progress” (6th International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics – Università di Pavia)
July 2024: “Ancient Greek Speech Rhythm” (6th Crete Summer School of Linguistics – University of Crete)
April 2024: “Applying for the Position of “Resident Poet”: Damophilos in Pythian 4.279–299” (120th Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS24) – Washington University in St. Louis)
October 2023: “Porson’s Bridge Reconsidered: Aristophanes’ Evidence about Proclitic ἄν” (34th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC34) – University of California, Los Angeles)
April 2023: “Hom. πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω: the Knowledge of the Wise” (7th Indo-European Research Colloquium (IERC7) – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
September 2022: “Pindar and Greek Poetic Language” (5th International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics – Università di Pavia)

Courses

Summer Session A 2025: Teaching Assistant in Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1), UCLA — Faculty Supervisor: Stephan Keine
Summer Session A 2024: Instructor in Medical Terminology (Classics 47), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: David Blank
Winter 2024: Teaching Assistant in Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (IE/Ling M150), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: John Clayton
Fall 2023: Teaching Assistant in Historical Linguistics (Ling 110), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: David Goldstein
Spring 2023: Teaching Assistant in Elementary Latin (Latin 2 Hybrid), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Robert A. Gurval.
Winter 2023: Teaching Assistant in Introduction to the Study of Language (Ling 1), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Giuseppina Silvestri.
Fall 2022: Teaching Assistant in Elementary Latin (Latin 1), UCLA – Faculty Supervisor: Robert A. Gurval.

Awards

2024: Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (UCLA Division of Graduate Education)
2023: Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (UCLA Division of Graduate Education)
2022: Indogermanische Gesellschaft award for best Master’s thesis in Indo-European studies (2^nd place, https://www.indogermanistik.org/preise.html)
2021: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship