East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC)

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Pinnacle Room, 480 Baldwin Hall

The East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC) is an annual meeting of specialists in Indo-European linguistics and philology, mostly from or trained in the United States. 

All sessions will be held in The Pinnacle Room 480 Baldwin Hall, 355 S. Jackson St. 

See map for location:

Document:
ECIEC Campus Map.pdf (529.09 KB)

 

                                                                                Scan To Access Website & Handouts On Personal Devices:


Tuesday July 2 (Morning Zoom sessions)


8:30-9:00 AM 

Breakfast
 

9:00-9:30 AM 

Almost a Century after C. D. Buck’s Greek Dialects: New Texts, New Forms
Jose Luis Garcia Ramon
Cologne/AIBL, Paris
 

9:30-10:00 AM 

Mind *-ya- own Business: On the Passive/Anticausative Syncretism in Indo-Iranian
Laura Grestenberger
Austrian Academy of Sciences
 

10:00-10:30 AM 

Vedic nakhá-
Tim Barnes
Oxford University

Document:
Barnes_ECIEC43_handout.pdf (704.83 KB)


 

10:30-11:00 AM 

Break
 

11:00-11:30 AM 

On oƒ in Tocharian
Hannes Fellner
University of Vienna
 

11:30 AM -12:00 PM 

New Etymologies of Tocharian A Words and Related Morphological Issues
Georges Pinault
EPHE, Paris

Document:
PinaultHandoutECIEC2024.pdf (531.32 KB)


 

12:00-2:00 PM 

Lunch
 

2:00-2:30 PM 

Tocharian Lexemes for ‘Belly’, ‘Beaming’, and ‘Burly’
Olav Hackstein
LMU, München


 

2:30-3:00 PM 

āks- and it shall be given: The etymology of Toch. āks- ‘announce, proclaim’.
Jay Jasanoff                                                                                                                                           
Harvard University

Document:
āks- handout (ECIEC 43).pdf (325.1 KB)


 

3:00-3:30 PM 

False Testimony and other Witnesses’ Witlessness (on Latin)
Ben Fortson
University of Michigan

Document:
ECIEC 2024 Handout.pdf (293.72 KB)


 

3:30-4:00 PM 

Break
 

4:00-4:30 PM 

Minerva, caterva, and Sonorant Metathesis: Arguments against a Sound Law by Rix
John Clayton
University of California, Los Angeles

Document:
clayton-eciec-2024.pdf (1.61 MB)


 

4:30-5:00 PM 

On the Prehistory of Old Engl. eom vs. bēo(m) ‘be’
Hans Henrich Hock
University of Illinois (Emeritus)


 

5:00-5:30 PM 

The Thematic Aorist in Late Nuclear Proto-Indo-European
Jeremy Rau
Harvard University


 

6:30 PM 

Buffet-Style Dinner at the home of Jared and Rusti Klein 

(Address will be provided in person)


Wednesday July 3


8:30-9:00 AM 

Breakfast
 

9:00-9:30 AM 

Accents According to Nature: Underlying Representations from Sanskrit to Saussure
Jesse Lundquist
Princeton University
 

9:30-10:00 AM 

Lepontic uvITiauioPos arikuonePos (Prestino)
Joseph Eska
Virginia Tech University

Document:
Eska-ECIEC 2024-handout.pdf (306.4 KB)


 

10:00-10:30 AM 

Albanian dash m. ‘ram’
Giulio Imberciadori
LMU, München


 

10:30-11:00 AM 

Break
 

11:00-11:30 

Remarks on Cross-Morphemic Laryngeal Coloring in PIE
Chengzhi Zhang
University of California, Los Angeles
 

11:30 AM -12:00 PM 

The Old Church Slavic Conditional in Comparative Syntactic Perspective
Jared Klein
University of Georgia

Document:
Handout for ECIEC 43 (002).pdf (153.64 KB)


 

12:00 PM

Announcement about ECIEC Forty-Four (2025)

 

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