This is the schedule of the 19th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Nov. 2–3, 2007 at the University of California, Los Angeles and produced a proceedings volume available here.
| Date | Panel Chair | Speaker | Talk | Time | Proceedings? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2007 | Opening Remarks | 8:45–9:00 AM | |||
| Tim Dempsey | Jay H. Jasanoff (Harvard University) | Analogy as Sporadic Sound Change | 9:00–9:30 AM | ||
| Kanehiro Nishimura (UCLA) | A Historical Analysis of Latin Vowel Reduction: Prosody, Phonetics, and Analogy | 9:30–10:00 AM | |||
| Nikolai N. Kazansky (Institut lingvisticheskikh issledovanij, RAN) | Syntactic Position and Syncope in Archaic Latin | 10:00–10:30 AM | |||
| Break | 10:30–10:45 AM | ||||
| Moss Pike | Todd C. Clary (Cornell University) | Restrictions on the Use of the Figura Etymologica in Ancient Greek Epic | 10:45–11:15 AM | ||
| Edwin D. Floyd (University of Pittsburgh) | Posin endon eonta: Etymology and Literary Analysis at Odyssey 19.477 | 11:15–11:45 AM | ✔ | ||
| Ana Galjanic (University of Zagreb) | Save the Best for Last: Greek Priamel and Enumerative Sets | 11:45–12:15 PM | ✔ | ||
| Lunch | 12:15–1:45 PM | ||||
| Asko Parpola (University of Helsinki) | Proto-Indo-European Speakers of the Late Tripolye Culture As the Inventors of Wheeled Vehicles: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations“ | 1:45–2:45 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 2:45–3:00 PM | ||||
| Anna Pagé | Jared S. Klein (University of Georgia) | Numeral Repetition in the Rigveda and the Evolution of Rigvedic Style | 3:00–3:30 PM | ✔ | |
| Benedicte Nielsen (Cambridge University) | The Origins of the Compositional Type Ved. bharádvāja | 3:30–4:00 PM | |||
| Carlotta Viti (University of Pisa) | The Verb-Initial Word Order in the Early Poetry of Vedic and Ancient Greek | 4:00–4:30 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 4:30–4:45 PM | ||||
| Kaspars Ozolins | Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | Early Germanic Agreement with Mixed-Gender Antecedents | 4:45–5:15 PM | ✔ | |
| Adam Hyllested (University of Copenhagen) | Indo-European Substrates in Balto-Slavic Revisited | 5:15–5:45 PM | |||
| Joshua Katz (Princeton University) | Not Very Indo-European: Russian ochen' | 5:45–6:15 PM | |||
| Nov 3, 2007 | Andrew Byrd | Benjamin W. Fortson IV (University of Michigan) | The 'Double Nasal' Presents in Celtic and Indo-European | 9:00–9:30 AM | |
| Jeremy Rau (Harvard University) | The Nature of the IE Decade-Formation | 9:30–10:00 AM | |||
| Alan J. Nussbaum (Cornell University) | The End of Some Compounds in Greek | 10:00–10:30 AM | |||
| Break | 10:30–10:45 AM | ||||
| Elizabeth Thornton | Patrick Taylor (Houghton Mifflin) | Bhiṣma on the Plain of Olympia: Indic Perspectives on Some Fragments of the Hesiodic Corpus | 10:45–11:15 AM | ||
| Timothy Barnes (Harvard University) | Av. hauruuatāt- amərə(ta)tāt-, Gk. ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην: On the Prehistory of Greek Ritual Language | 11:15–11:45 AM | |||
| Sherrylyn Branchaw (UCLA) | Pwyll and Puruṣamedha: Human Sacrifice in the Mabinogi | 11:45–12:15 PM | ✔ | ||
| Lunch | 12:15–1:45 PM | ||||
| Elisabeth Rieken (Universität Marburg) | apel, bili-, ebeli: The Origins of Pronominal -l- in Anatolian | 1:45–2:45 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 2:45–3:00 PM | ||||
| Sherrylyn Branchaw | Vyacheslav V. Ivanov (UCLA) | Old Assyrian tuzinnum, Hittite tuzzi and Indo-European *teut- | 3:00–3:30 PM | ✔ | |
| Rebeca Solís Berni (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Carlos Molina Valero (Universidad de Murcia) | Collective in Lycian | 3:30–4:00 PM | |||
| Kanehiro Nishimura | Ilya Yakubovich (University of Chicago) | The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives | 4:00–4:30 PM | ✔ | |
| David Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley) | The Dative of Agent in Ancient Greek | 4:30–5:00 PM | |||
| Closing Remarks | 5:00–5:15 PM |