Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo European Conference - November 5th and 6th, 2010 (Paperback)

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies. Contents: Chundra Cathcart: RUKI in the Nuristani Languages: An Assessment; Michael Ellsworth: The First Palatalization of Greek; Randall Gordon: Verbal Arguments and the Verbal Noun in Old Irish; Dieter Gunkel and Kevin Ryan: Hiatus Avoidance and Metrification in the Rigveda; Gary Holland: Active and Passive in Hittite Infinitival Constructions; Mattyas Huggard: On Wh-(Non)-Movement and Internal Structures of the Hittite Preposed Relative Clause; Alexander Lubotsky: The Origin of Sanskrit Roots of the Type s?v- 'to sew', d?v- 'to play dice', with an Appendix on Vedic i-Perfects; H. Craig Melchert: The PIE Verb for 'to pour' and Medial *h3 in Anatolian; Gregory Nagy: The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction; Kanehiro Nishimura: On the Chronology of Vowel Contraction in Latin Marc Pierce: The Status of the ONSET PRINCIPLE in Early Germanic; Ryan Platte: Pindaric Mythopoesis; Ryan Sandell: The Morphophonology of Reduplicated Presents in Vedic and Indo-European; Christopher Wilhelm: The Aeneid and Italian Prehistory