25.2212, Confs: Indo-Iranian, Indo-European, Avestan, Greek, Sanskrit, Historical Ling/UK

Tue May 20 15:11:45 UTC 2014

LINGUIST List: Vol-25-2212. Tue May 20 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.2212, Confs: Indo-Iranian, Indo-European, Avestan, Greek, Sanskrit, Historical Ling/UK

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Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:10:47
From: Philomen Probert [philomen.probert at wolfson.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European

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Indo-Iranian and Indo-European 

Date: 21-Jun-2014 - 21-Jun-2014 
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom 
Contact: John Lowe 
Contact Email: john.lowe at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/files/internal/Indo-Iranian%20and%20Indo-European%20PP%20May%202014.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Avestan (ave)
                     Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Sanskrit (san)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European; Indo-Iranian 
Meeting Description: 

A one-day symposium to be held at Wolfson College, Oxford, in honour of Dr
Elizabeth Tucker's first forty years teaching Indo-Iranian and Indo-European
linguistics.

Saturday, 21 June 2014

8:45 am-5:30 pm at Wolfson College, Oxford

Program:

8:45am
Tea or coffee and registration

9:15am
Professor Stephanie Jamison, UCLA
Avestan xṣ̌uuīd-

10:15 am
Professor Stanley Insler, Yale University
Ārmaiti in the Gāthās and Beyond

11:15 am
Tea or coffee

11:45 am
Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams, SOAS
Dual and numerative in Middle and New Iranian

12:45 pm
Lunch

1:45 pm
Dr John Lowe, University of Oxford
Transitive nouns and adjectives in the Ṛgveda

2:45 pm
Professor Jared Klein, University of Georgia
Categories and Types of Interstanzaic Repetition in the Rigveda

3:45 pm
Tea or coffee

4:15 pm
Professor Alan Nussbaum, Cornell University
Greek κυδαίνω 'glorify' and its Congeners: a thought experiment

5:15-5:30 pm
Closing remarks

To give the organisers a sense of numbers, please register in advance if at all possible, by email to john.lowe at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. A conference fee of £25 (£10 for students) will be payable on the day and will include lunch. 

This event is generously supported by the Lorne Thyssen Research Fund for Ancient World Topics, Wolfson College, Oxford; the Jill Hart Fund for Indo-Iranian Philology; the Leverhulme Trust; the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics; the Craven Fund of the Faculty of Classics; and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.

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