Program of The East Coast Indoeuropean Conference 26 , June 14-17, 2007

Thursday, June 14th 12:00 - 8:30 PM: Check-in at the Swing College. 5:00 - 7:00 PM: Informal Reception in the Common Room, Swing College.

Friday, June 15th 8:30 - 9:15 AM: Breakfast, 119A/B McDougal Center, Graduate School. 9:15 - 10:45 AM: Session One, , Chairman. Introductory remarks, Stanley Insler. Greetings from Jon Butler, Dean of the Yale Graduate School. 1. John Fisher, Yale University, Towards a methodology of sequential reconstruction for PIE. 2. Alan Nussbaum, ,

What does *h2ner- do? Well, ... 3. Stephen Colvin, University College, London, The Greek verb ‘to stand’. 10:45 - 11:15 AM: Break. 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM: Session Two, Andrew Garrett, Chairman. 4. Kenneth Plaster, , Vowel balancing and the Tocharian A accent. 5. Mark Hale, Concordia University, Nati. 6. Jean-François Mondon, University of Pennsylvania, The development of interconsonantal laryngeals in Classical Armenian: A Unitary Approach. 12:45 - 2:00 PM: Lunch. 2:00 - 3:30 PM: Session Three, Stephanie Jamison, Chairman. 7. Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University, The rise and fall of double-dual dvandvas. 8. Hans Hock, University of Illinois, Agreeing to disagree: Agreement with non-agreeing antecedents, with special focus on Sanskrit and . 9. Guðrun Thorhallsdottir, University of Iceland. “Indeclinable” adjectives in Old Norse. 3:30 - 4:00 PM: Break. 4:00 - 5:30 PM: Session Four, Hans Hock, Chairman. 10. Jared Klein, University of Georgia at Athens, Interrogative sequences in the Rigveda. 11. Calvert Watkins, UCLA, The milk of the dawn cows revisited. 12. Ronald Kim, Swarthmore College, Unlikely cognates: The Tocharian abstract suffixes TA -une, -one and TB -(äñ)ñe, -auñe. 7:00 PM: Dinner for speakers and spouses at Bentara Restaurant, 76 Orange Street (marked on the map).

Saturday, June 16th 8:30 - 9:15 AM: Breakfast, 119A/B, McDougal Center. 9:15 - 10:45 AM: Session Five, Alan Nussbaum, Chairman. 13. Stephanie Jamison, UCLA, Does have a brother? 14. Kanehiro Nishimura, UCLA, A problem in Italic onomastics and morphology: Oscan marahis. 15. Michael Weiss, Cornell University, What’s it all about, Alfir? 10:45 - 11:15 AM: Break. 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM: Session Six, Jay Jasanoff, Chairman. 16. Jeremy Rau, Harvard, University, The Indoeuropean origins of the athematic inflection of the Greek contract verbs. 17. Michiel de Vaan, Leiden University, Traces of the PIE i-present in Latin. 18. Haraldur Bernharðsson, Institute of Iceland Studies, Reykjavik, The 3rd singular ending in Old Norse. 12:45 - 2:00 PM: Lunch. 2:00 - 3:30 PM: Session Seven, Mark Hale, Chairman. 19. Joe Eska, Virginia Tech, Phonological aspects of the Bergin’s Rule construction. 20. Andrew Garrett, UC at Berkeley, Thurneysen’s Law. 21. Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University, Imperative matters. 3:30 - 4:00 PM: Break. 4:00 - 5:30 PM: Session Eight, Michael Weiss, Chairman. 22. Joshua Katz, Princeton University, Some unexpected Greek numbers, with a romance in lower mathematics. 23. Angelo Mercado, UC, Santa Cruz, Comparative-historical metrical problem(s): Italic and Celtic. 24. Moss Pike, UCLA, Latin salûs. 6:45 PM: Bus to Stanley Insler’s house for dinner. Everyone is invited. The bus will leave 6:45 - 7:00 PM from the Swing College. Be prompt; there will be only one trip.

Sunday, June 17th 8:30 - 9:15 AM: Breakfast, 119A/B, McDougal Center. 9:15 - 10:45 AM: Session Nine, Jared Klein, Chairman. 25. Craig Melchert, UCLA,

Luvian evidence for PIE *h3eit- ‘take along, fetch’. 26. Sara Kimball, UT at Austin, Homeric 6DbBJ"F6, and Õ\BJ"F6,. 27. Dieter Gunkel, UCLA, Ad -"D@-: A study in Greek and PIE word formation. 10:45 - 11:15 AM: Break. 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM: Session Ten, Paul Kiparsky, Chairman. 28. Eystein Dahl, University of Oslo, Immediate past or perfective past? The temporal semantics of the early Vedic aorist. 29. Stanley Insler, Yale University, Gerunds and aorists in the Rigveda. 1:00 PM: Visit to the grave of William Dwight Whitney, Grove Street Cemetery. End of Meeting