This is the schedule of the 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Commonly referred to as a “West Coast Indo-European Conference” (WeCIEC), this installment took place on Oct. 31 – Nov. 1, 2008 at the University of California, Los Angeles and produced a proceedings volume available here.
| Date | Panel Chair | Speaker | Talk | Time | Proceedings? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2008 | Opening Remarks | 9:00–9:15 AM | |||
| Philippe Gagnon | Birgit Anette Olsen (University of Copenhagen) | On the Indo-European Status of Determinative Compounds | 9:15–9:45 AM | ✔ | |
| David Goldstein (University of California, Berkeley) | Wackernagel's Law in Greek: The Case of ἄν | 9:45–10:15 AM | |||
| Tim Barnes (Harvard University) | Homeric μῶλος Ἄρηος, Hittite ḫarrai mallai: on the Etymology and Function of Ares in Mycenean, Homeric Epic and Aeolic Lyric | 10:15–10:45 AM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 10:45–11:00 AM | ||||
| Tim Dempsey | Kanehiro Nishimura (Kyoto University) | Vowel Deletion in Latin: A Phonological History of Its Triggering Contexts | 11:00–11:30 AM | ||
| Nicholas Zair (Oxford University) | OIr. biid < *bʰuH-ye/o- and 'Hiatus' Verbs | 11:30–12:00 PM | ✔ | ||
| Lunch | 12:00–1:30 PM | ||||
| James Mallory (Queen's University, Belfast) | The Anatolian Homeland Hypothesis and the Neolithic | 1:30–2:30 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 2:30–2:45 PM | ||||
| Randall Gordon | Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) | The Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Gender System and the Anatolian Evidence | 2:45–3:15 PM | ✔ | |
| Eystein Dahl (University of Oslo) | Reconstructing the Semantics of the Proto-Indo-European Imperfect | 3:15–3:45 PM | ✔ | ||
| Maria Napoli (University of Pisa/University “G. Marconi”, Rome) | The Impersonal Passive in Latin | 3:45–4:15 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 4:15–4:30 PM | ||||
| Jessica DeLisi | Bernhard Koller (UCLA) | Schwa-Zero Alternations and Their Implications for Verbal Root Structure in Tocharian A | 4:30–5:00 PM | ||
| Hannes Fellner (Harvard University) | Thoughts about u-Presents | 5:00–5:30 PM | |||
| Nov 1, 2008 | Sherrylyn Branchaw | Olav Hackstein (University of Munich) | No Escape: The Etymology of Latin necesse | 9:00–9:30 AM | |
| Philip Baldi (Pennsylvania State University), Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo) | The Latin Temporal Adverb semper and Its Relatives | 9:30–10:00 AM | |||
| Miles Beckwith (Iona College) | The Latin Imperfect and v-Perfect: A Paradigm Split | 10:00–10:30 AM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 10:30–10:45 AM | ||||
| Anna Pagé | Miriam Robbins Dexter (UCLA) | Ancient Felines and the Great-Goddess in Anatolia: Kubaba and Cybele | 10:45–11:15 AM | ✔ | |
| Martin Schwartz (University of California, Berkeley) | Gāthic Serial Recursive Textual Composition and Indo-European Etymology | 11:15–11:45 AM | |||
| Lunch | 11:45–1:30 PM | ||||
| Joshua Katz (Princeton University) | Wordplay | 1:30–2:30 PM | ✔ | ||
| Break | 2:30–2:45 PM | ||||
| Bernhard Koller | Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) | Labiopalatalization in Indo-European Languages | 2:45–3:15 PM | ✔ | |
| Sverre Johnsen (Harvard University) | The Development of Voiced Labiovelars in Germanic | 3:15–3:45 PM | ✔ | ||
| Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen) | A Note on Anatolian i-Mutation ('i-Motion') | 3:45–4:15 PM | |||
| Break | 4:15–4:30 PM | ||||
| Elizabeth Thornton | Adam Hyllested (University of Copenhagen) | Fenno-Ugric *-š- as Laryngeal Substitution in Words of Indo-European Provenance | 4:30–5:00 PM | ||
| John Greppin (Cleveland State University) | The Hurro-Urartian Substratum in Armenian | 5:00–5:30 PM | |||
| Closing Remarks | 5:30–6:00 PM |