Variation and contact in the Ancient Indo-European languages

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Variation and Contact in the Ancient Indo-European languages: between Linguistics and Philology

Variazione e contatto nelle lingue indoeuropee antiche: fra linguistica e filologia

Joint Colloquia in Indo-European Linguistics

 

Pisa, 19-20 April 2018

Oxford, 17-18 May 2018

 

Hosted by the universities of Pisa and Oxford, these joint colloquia brought together international experts to discuss contact, variation and change in the ancient Indo-European languages. The conferences featured invited keynote speakers, papers selected through a Call for Papers and a poster session. Contributions in any areas of research on Indo-European languages were welcomed, and an interdisciplinary approach preferred.

Pisa Conference

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Complete list of speakers:

Peter Barber (University of Oxford) – Analogical Change, Regional Variation and Contact in the Ancient Greek Dialects: -ζω verbs -δδω verbs, and their aorist

Jóhanna Barðdal / Gard B. Jenset / Laura Bruno / Esther Le Mair / Peter Alexander Kerkhof / Svetlana Kleyner/ Leonid Kulikov / Roland Pooth (Universiteit Gent) – Continuous Vector Space Models for Variation and Change in Sparse, Richly Annotated Indo-European Argument Structure Data

Davide Bertocci / Sira Rodeghiero / Emanuela Sanfelici (Università di Padova) – Aspectual distinctions under direct perception predicates

Patrizia Bologna (Università degli Studi di Milano) – Variazione, contatto e ricostruzione in indoeuropeistica: percorsi divergenti?

Michela Cennamo (Università di Napoli Federico II) – Anticausatives in Latin and early (Italo)-Romance: the semantics of predicates and the syntax of voice

Carlo Consani (Università di Chieti-Pescara) – Plurilinguismo e motivazioni identitarie nel Mediterraneo del II/I a.C.: il caso della trilingue di Pauli Gerrei

Paola Cotticelli (Università degli Studi di Verona) – Plurilinguismo testuale nell'Anatolia del II millennio: l'euristica di una cultura

Francesca Cotugno (University of Nottingham - CSAD, University of Oxford) – Latinization of the north-western provinces: sociolinguistics, epigraphy and bilingualism. The Germanies.

Alessandro De Angelis (Università degli Studi di Messina) – La legge di Grassmann in greco: una chimera della ricostruzione?

Francesco Dedè / Maria Margherita Cardella (Università degli Studi di Milano) – Dinamiche di variazione e mutamento tra composizione e derivazione in greco antico

Bridget Drinka (University of Texas at San Antonio) - Contact in Indo-European: Constructing a New Family Tree Model.

Franco Fanciullo (Università di Pisa) – Problemi di sostrato

José Luis García Ramón (Center for Hellenic Studies - Washington DC) – Contact, variation and change in Anatolian and Greek: the continuity of Indo-European morphosyntax and phraseology

Laura Grestenberger (Universität Wien) – Variation and change in the voice morphology of Indo-European reflexives

Cristina Guardiano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) / Chiara Bozzone (LMU München) – Adnominal ὁ ἡ τό in the Language of Homer: Syntactic Change or Stylistic Variation?

Brian Joseph (Ohio State University) – Here’s to a Long Life!  Echoes of Indo-European Semantics in Albanian

Artemij Keidan (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") – Strong adjectives and similar phenomena, in the second generation IE languages

Romano Lazzeroni (Università di Pisa) – Il mutamento linguistico fra contatto, irradiazione e memoria: principi e percorsi

John Lowe (University of Oxford) – The Sanskrit periphrastic future

Robert Machado (University of Cambridge) – Competing verb stems as variables: the case of the perfect stem of γίγνομαι in Attic Greek

Marco Mancini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") – Alphabetical Encounters in Palestine in the Tannaitic and Amoraic Periods

Paolo Poccetti (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata") – Variazioni nelle iscrizioni ripetute e/o opistografe dell'Italia antica

Andrea Scala (Università degli Studi di Milano) – Greek, Syriac and Iranian loanwords in ancient Armenian: reflexes of stop consonants in word initial-position

John Charles Smith (University of Oxford) - Latin to Romance: typology and its relationship to variation and change.

 

Poster presentations by:

Serena Barchi (Università di Roma "La Sapienza"); Sean Gleason (University of Yale); Lauriane Locatelli (Université catholique de Louvain / Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté); Felicia Logozzo (Università per Stranieri di Siena); Valentina Lunardi (Independent Researcher); Rossella Maraffino (Universität Bern); Giovanna Martino (Università Pontificia Salesiana); Veronica Milanova (Universität Wien) / Sampsa Holopainen (University of Helsinki) / Jeremy Bradley (LMU München); Nazarii A. Nazarov (Higher Education Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); Eleni Papadogiannaki (University of Crete); Roland Pooth (Universiteit Gent); Jean-Christophe Reinmuth (Paris 4 Sorbonne); Xenia Semionova (Lomonosov Moscow State University); Lucia Tamponi (Università di Pisa); Chiara Zanchi - (Università di Pavia); Francesco Zuin (Università di Pisa).

 

 

Oxford Conference

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Complete list of speakers:

Annamaria Bartolotta (Università di Palermo) – Spatial Cognition and Frames of Reference in Indo-European

Roberto Batisti (Università di Bologna) – Dis-assembling Cowgill’s Law: Greek ἄγυρις ‘gathering’ between dialectology and Indo-European reconstruction

Marina Benedetti (Università per Stranieri di Siena) – The case for the seventh case: comparative grammar and language teaching in antiquity

Juan Briceño-Villalobos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – Old Iranian correlative negation and its reflection in Achaemenid Elamite.

Marta Capano (Università di Napoli "L'Orientale") – Sicilicissitat: Greek and Latin in contact in Roman Sicily

James Clackson (University of Cambridge) – What’s in a Name? Latin names in Greek script

Stephen Colvin (University College London) – Particles and conditions in Greece and Anatolia

Sonja Dahlgren (University of Helsinki) – Egyptian Greek: A contact variety (?)

Wolfgang De Melo (University of Oxford) – Grammatical terminology in Varro: loan words, adaptations, and independent terminology

Victoria Fendel (University of Oxford) – Natural language use and bilingual interference: verbal complementation patterns in postclassical Greek

Federico Giusfredi (Università degli Studi di Verona) – Once upon a time, a Sumerian donkey...

Joshua Katz (Princeton University) – Variation, Change, and the Particular Consequences of a New Sound Law in Old Irish

Giovanna Marotta (Università di Pisa) – On the perception of prosodic features in Latin

Laura Massetti (Københavns Universitet) – Young and Hungry: ἀκάκητα and the Gk. avatars of the IE Fire-god

Barbara McGillivray (Alan Turing Institute - University of Cambridge) / Alessandro Vatri (Alan Turing Institute - University of Oxford) – Lexical polysemy across registers and time: A computational study of Ancient Greek

Robin Meyer (University of Oxford) - Alignment change and changing alignments: the Armenian perfect and its Iranian model

Valerio Pisaniello/Stella Merlin (Università degli Studi di Verona) – Linguistic strategies in filiation formulas: data from Lycian-Greek bilingual texts

Domenica Romagno (Università di Pisa) – Aspects of the verbal domain in Greek and Latin

Francesco Rovai (Università di Pisa) – Dicae and faciae from Cato to Quintilian: Morphological variants or orthographical practice?

Katharine Shields (University College London) – Rewriting the law: diachronic variation and register in Greek and Hittite legal language.

Elizabeth Tucker (University of Oxford) – Lexical Variation in Younger Avestan: the Problem of the 'Ahuric' and 'Daevic' Vocabularies Revisited

Lucien Van Beek (Universiteit Leiden) – Dialect borrowing versus internal developments in epic Greek: Reconsidering the dative plural in -εσσι

Marja Vierros (University of Helsinki) – Variation and contact in the papyrus archive of the Katochoi of the Sarapieion

Mark Weeden (SOAS London) – Hittite and Sumerian: The search for deeper meanings

 

This event was made possible thanks to the support of:

  •  The University of Pisa, the Department, and the PhD Program in Philology, Literature and Linguistics of the University of Pisa.
  •  The Ertegun Scholarship Programme, St Hilda’s College, and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics of the University of Oxford.

Organising committee: Michele Bianconi (Oxford), Marta Capano (Napoli L'Orientale), Kerstin Hoge (Oxford), Domenica Romagno (Pisa), Francesco Rovai (Pisa), and Elizabeth Tucker (Oxford).

Scientific committee: Michele Bianconi (Oxford), Marta Capano (Napoli L'Orientale), Giovanna Marotta (Università di Pisa), Domenica Romagno (Pisa), Francesco Rovai (Pisa), Elizabeth Tucker (Oxford), and Andreas Willi (Oxford).