Schedule of Talks for the Thirty-Sixth East Coast Indo-European Conference Sponsored by the Departments of Linguistics and Classics Cornell University June 1-4, 2017, Ithaca, New York All sessions will be held in the Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401 Thursday, June 1, 5-7 P.M. Opening Reception (PSB 401) Friday June 2 8:00-9 Breakfast, Coffee, Words of Welcome Franz Bopp Session 1. 9-9:30 Jared Klein, University of Georgia, “Discourse Articulation in Gothic (With Notes on the Treatment of the Same Phenomenon in the Classical Armenian and Old Church Slavic Versions)” 2. 9:30-10 Julia Sturm, Harvard University, “*w > h in Attic Greek” 3. 10-10:20 Haraldur Bernharðsson, University of Iceland, “From Old Icelandic hefir to hefur. “Changes in the Present Indicative of the Verb hafa ‘have’” Break 10:20-10:40 Michel Bréal Session 1. 10:40-11:10 Olav Hackstein, LMU München, “Latin negō” 2. 11:10-11:40 Benjamin W. Fortson IV, University of Michigan, “A Cover-up: Latin amiciō” 3. 11:40-12 Brent Vine, UCLA, “Two Notes on *dii ̯ē-, *di ̯ē- and Lindeman’s Law in Italic” Lunch 12-2 Graziadio Ascoli Session 1 1. 2-2:30 Don Ringe, University of Pennsylvania, “Five Disputed Proto-Germanic Sound Changes” 2. 2:30-3 Hannes Fellner, Leiden University, and Laura Grestenberger, University of Vienna, “Passive-aggressive in Proto-Indo-European” 3. 3-3:30 Dieter Gunkel, LMU München, "Verum focus in Vedic via yá eváṃ véda" 4. 3:30-4 Mark Hale, Concordia University, “Some Notes on Vowel Sandhi in the Rigveda” Break 4-4:30 Rasmus Rask Session 1. 4:30-5:00 Birgit Olsen, University of Copenhagen, “Aunts, Stepmothers, and Other Subsidiary Characters in Indo-European Kinship Terminology” 2. 5:00-5:30 Kazuhiko Yoshida, Kyoto University, “On the Prehistory of Hittite aušta and maušta” 3. 5:30-6 Joshua T. Katz, Princeton University, “The Sounds round Oak and round Rock: Indo-European and Near Eastern Poetics in Theogony 35” 7 :00 Barbecue for Speakers Willard Straight Hall Patio Saturday, June 3 8:00-9 Breakfast and Coffee Benjamin Ide Wheeler Session 1. 9-9:30 Ronald I. Kim, Charles University, “North Slavic -ě vs. South Slavic -ę, and Stang’s Law in the Accusative Plural of PIE *eh2-stems” 2. 9:30-10 Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir, University of Iceland, “What’s the Story of krakki? ON kraki ‘stake’, Icel. krakki ‘kid’ and Related Problems” 3. 10-10:20 Stephanie Jamison, UCLA, “Some False Segmentations and Re- segmentations in the RV” Break 10:20-10:40 William Dwight Whitney Session 2 1. 10:40-11:10 Georges-Jean Pinault, EPHE, “Toch. B paitār* ‘milk-calf' and Indo-European Nominal Derivation” 2. 11:10-11:40 Alexander Nikolaev, Boston University, “Sidetica” 3. 11:40-12 Joseph Eska, Virginia Tech, and Jean-François Mondon, Minot State University, “Phonological Spreading, Voice Onset Delay, or Phonetic Noise? Orthographic φσ and χσ in Greek Epichoric Inscriptions” Lunch 12-2 Johann Kaspar Zeuss Session 1. 2-2:30 Timothy Barnes, Princeton University, “*deu̯k- Traces” 2. 2:30-3 Melanie Malzahn, University of Vienna, “Root Noun and Gender” 3. 3-3:30 Jay Jasanoff, Harvard University, “Palatable Thorns” Break 3:30-4 Johannes Schmidt Session 1. 4-4:30 Ryan Hearn, Cornell University, “Wh-questions in Tocharian and Implications for PIE Reconstruction” 2. 4:30-5:00 Yaroslav Gorbachov, University of Chicago, “Tocharian-Yeniseic contact?” 3. 5-5:30 José Luis García Ramón, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, Harvard University, “Reconstructing Infinitival Forms and Functions: Two Open Questions” 7:00 Party for all at 110 Juniper Drive (Michael’s house) Sunday, June 4 8:00-9 Breakfast and Coffee Jakob Wackernagel Session 1. 9-9:30 Elisabeth Rieken, University of Marburg, and James Burgin, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, “On the Linguistic Aspects of Hieroglyphic Luwian Initial-A-Final” 3 2. 9:30-10 Emily Barth, Cornell University, “nr̥vát: An Analogical Base for Adverbial -vát.” 3. 10-10:30 Michael Weiss, Cornell University, “Le proto-tokharien, langue de non-paysans?” Break 10:30-10:50 Theodor Aufrecht Session 1. 10:50-11:20 Todd Clary, Cornell University, “What to Call Your Indo- European Mother-in-law, *sue̯ kû ̯r̥h2 or *su̯ekrû h2.” 2. 11:20-11:50 H. Craig Melchert, UCLA, “A PIE *h1(e)skê /o- as Substantive Verb Revisited” 4 .