Variation and Contact in the Ancient Indo-European Languages
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).