East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC)

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:

Monday, July 1

8:30-9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00-9:30 

Weighty Matters
Sara Kimball
University of Texas (Emerita)

 

9:30-10:00 AM

The Illuyanka Myth: A Hittite Saturnalia?
Petra Goedegebuure
University of Chicago

10:00-10:30 AM

A Further Remark on Hittite ye/a- Verbs
Kazuhiko Yoshida
Kyoto Sangyo University

 

10:30-11:00 AM

Break

11:00-11:30 AM

Vedic śūṣá- ‘powerful’ and the Diachrony of Vowel Deletion in Indo-European
Tony Yates
University of California, Los Angeles

 

11:30 AM -12:00 PM

A Perturbation in Rigvedic Word Order
Stephanie Jamison
University of California, Los Angeles

 

12:00-2:00 PM 

Lunch Break
 

2:00-2:30 PM 

Embedded Relative Clauses in Old Persian
Yexin Qu
Cornell University

 

2:30-3:00 PM 

The Khotanese Instrumental-Ablative and Locative Plural Endings
Ron Kim
University of Poznan

 

3:00-3:30 PM 

The Greek Passive Aorist and the Caland System
Zachary Rothstein-Dowden
Harvard University
 

3:30-4:00 PM 

Break
 

4:00-4:30 PM 

Word-hoard in Jars of Clay: σκεῦος, σκηνή, and an Obscure PIE Root
Andrew Merritt
Georgetown University

 

4:30-5:00 PM 

Greek χελώνη and Laryngeal Breaking
Alexander Nikolaev
University of Cyprus

 

5:45 PM 

Dinner at Chuck’s Fish 

Athens 220 West Broad Street 

(Please see map)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

3:00-3:30 PM 

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

 

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

 

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 ariuonePos (Prestino)
Joseph Eska
Virginia Tech University

 

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

 

12:00 PM

Announcement about ECIEC Forty-Four (2025)

 

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