The Sound of Indo-European 3

Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics

Opava, 12th-14th November 2014

 

Invited speakers

 

Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) - University of Copenhagen

Alwin Kloekhorst - Leiden University

Götz Keydana - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Ilya Yakubovich - Universität Marburg

 

Conference rooms: Slezská univerzita, Masarykova 37

                                Room M8: conference

                                Room M12: coffee, refreshments

 

Registration: Room M12

 

Programme

 

Wednesday 12th November

9:00-9:30

            Oliver Plötz (Universität Wien)

            Laryngeal aspiration and the weakening of dentals in Classical Armenian

9:30-10:00

            Götz Keydana (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen)

            In defense of Narten roots

10:00-10:30

            Alireza Heydari & Mina Salehi  (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Teheran)

            Voiceless Stop or Voiced Stop?

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

            Agnes Korn ( Universität Frankfurt)

            A sound change that did not happen: On Old Persian y, w > iy, uw and its non-existence in Middle Persian

11:30-12:00

            Rosemarie Lühr (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

            Gender agreement in Indo-European

12:00-12:30

            Miguel Villanueva Svensson  (Vilnius University)

            The development of *ōu in Baltic

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch

 

14:00-14:30

            Nicolas Zair (University of Cambridge)

            Vowel weakening in the Sabellic languages

14:30-15:00

            Reiner Lipp (Charles University, Prague)

            Neuna Fata - the Spinner of Fate Fallen into Oblivion

15:00-15:30

               Martin Joachim Kümmel (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena)

            The development of laryngeals in Indo-Iranian

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

 

16:30-17:00

            Paul Widmer & Stefan Dedio (Universität Zürich)

            Capturing the semantics of phonemes

17:00-17:30

            Ilya Yakubovich (Moscow State University / Philipps-Universität Marburg)

            RUKI Rule: Innovation or Archaism?

 

Thursday 13th November

9:00-9:30

            Alwin Kloekhorst (Leiden university)

            The Proto-Anatolian consonantal system: an argument in favor of the Indo- Hittite hypothesis

9:30-10:00

            Jouna Pyysalo (University of Helsinki)

            Anatolian and Monolaryngealism

10:00-10:30

            Roger D. Woodard (University of Buffalo)

            Labiovelar Development in Aeolic Greek Dialects and the Matter of Common Aeolic

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

            Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) (University of Copenhagen)

            Latin -ll- and potential gemination by laryngeal

11:30-12:00

            Georges-Jean Pinault (École pratique des hautes études, Paris)

            Reflexes of laryngeal *h3 in several PIE morphemes

12:00-12:30

            Máté Ittzés (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

            On the chronology and the phonetics of the change o > u in final closed syllables in Latin

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch

 

14:00-14:30

            Jón Axel Harðarson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík)

            Mycenaean te-re-ja and the 'Aeolic' inflection of verba vocalia in Greek

14:30 - 15:00

            Davide Bertocci (University of Padova)

            On the etymology of -ā- in Latin I class verbs. Between phonology and morphology

15:00-15:30

            Stella Karamagkiola (University of Limoges)

            The "suspect pairs" of phonemics in dialect data: Indo-European languages in contact

15:30-16:00

            Dita Frantíková (Charles University, Prague)

          The problem of -iya in dative-locative function

 

18:00 Coctail party, Room M12

 

Friday 14th November

9:00-9:30

            Jan Bičovský (Charles University, Prague)

            S-mobile and lex Szemerényi: a possible link?

9:30-10:00

            Tim Felix Aufderheide (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

            Ungelöste Verschlusslaute im Indoiranischen

10:00-10:30

            Ľubomír Novák (National museum, Prague)

            Historical phonology of Yaghnobi and Sogdian (comparative analysis)

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00-11:30

            Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Jagiellonian University Kraków)

            The Italic *rēs - problems in phonology and morphology

11:30-12:00

            Václav Blažek & Michal Schwarz  (Masaryk University in Brno)

            Prehistory of Tocharian yāstaci 'juniper' in perspective of historical phonetics

12:00-12:30

            Hannes A. Fellner (Universität Wien)

            Constraints on Tocharian Auslautgesetze

 

12:30-13:00 Coffee break

 

13:00-13:30

            Katsiaryna Ackermann (Universität Wien)

            PSl. *socha and related stems

13:30-14:00

            Matej Šekli (Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian language)

            Proto-Slavic verbs in *-i-ti between historical phonology and analogy