ROOTS OF EUROPE – LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND MIGRATIONS UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN The sound of Indo-European Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics 16–19 April 2009 Abstracts photo: Mirjam Marti ROOTS OF EUROPE – LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND MIGRATIONS UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN The sound of Indo-European Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics 16–19 April 2009 Abstracts rootsofeurope.ku.dk Contents CONFERENCE PROGRAMME V Václav Blažek On Indo-European correspondences to Afro-Asiatic laryngeals 1 Lars Brink The etymology of Danishkone ‘wife etc.’ 6 ANDREW BYRD Predicting PIE syllabification through phonotactic analysis 7 Paul S. Cohen & Adam Hyllested A new sound law of PIE: initial **h3w > *h2w 9 Michael Frotscher On final‑r in Vedic 10 josé virgilio garcía trabazo Phonologische und morphologische Bemerkungen zu den hethitischen -i̯e/a-Verben 12 Piotr Gąsiorowski The Compass Conspiracy, a footnote to Verner’s Law and some further observations on the reflexes of PIE ‑* sr‑ 14 Aaron Griffith Raising before *µ in Old Irish: evidence and consequences 15 Irén Hegedűs Theruki -rule in Nuristani 17 Eugen Hill 19 Hidden sound laws in the inflectional morphology of Proto-Indo- European Adam Hyllested 21 The status and prevalence of Proto-Indo-European *a ANders Richardt Jørgensen The development of Proto-Celtic *sk in Brythonic 23 II Contents Joshua T. Katz Greek ὀπυίω and other words without a digamma 24 Götz Keydana Evidence for non-linear phonological structure in Indo-European: the case of fricative clusters 25 Alwin Kloekhorst The phonological interpretation of plene and non-plene spellede in Hittite 27 Agnes Korn Parthian ž 28 Guus Kroonen The rise of the Germanic iterative verbs: another case of ablaut being translated into consonant gradation 29 Martin J. Kümmel Typology and reconstruction: the IE consonants and vowel 30 Rosemarie Lühr & Susanne Zeilfelder Optimale Onsets im Indogermanischen 31 Marek Majer The development of Proto-Slavic word-final-ī * , *-ě from PIE *-oi̯, ‘*-ai̯’ 32 Biliana Mihaylova Some cases of the converse of Sievers’ law in Greek 33 Paolo Milizia On the morphophonemics of Proto-Indo-European *-sḱe/o- suffixed presents 35 Kanehiro Nishimura Vowel reduction and deletion in Sabellic: history and chronology 37 Georges-Jean Pinault Remarks on the PIE amphikinetic nouns 39 Charles Prescott Germanic and the ruki dialects 41 Contents III Tijmen Pronk The “Saussure Effect” in Indo-European languages, other than Greek 43 JENS ELMEGÅRD RASMUSSEN Rule ordering paradoxes in Indo-European: reintroducing phonetics 44 Giancarlo Schirru Laryngeal features in stops of Armenian dialects 45 Ilja Seržant Tocharisches Lautgesetz *‑sl‑ > ‑ll‑ / ‑l‑ 47 Vitalij Shevoroshkin Indo-European laryngeals in Anatolian 48 Zsolt SImon PIE ‘me’ and a new Lydian sound law 50 Thomas Smitherman Some consequences of Kartvelian realisations of Indo-European borrowings for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European phonological system 51 Dieter Steinbauer Proto-Indo-European *kakós ‘bad’ –another good example of unconditioned /a/ 54 David Stifter The sociophonemics of Late Gaulish 56 Lucien van Beek Greek evidence for the “Saussure Effect” reconsidered 57 Brent Vine PIE mobile accent in Italic: further evidence 58 Gordon Whittaker Aspects of Euphratic phonology 60 Paul Widmer Types of ablaut class assignment in non-primary nominal derivation 61 IV Contents ILYA YAKUBOVICH Phonetic interpretation of Hurrian sibilants in the light of Indo-European evidence 62 Nicholas Zair A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic 64 V Programme All lectures will take place in: Room 23.0.50 The Faculty of Humanities, Københavns Universitet Amager (KUA) Njalsgade 120 2300 Copenhagen S Wednesday 15 April 2009 16:00–18:00 Registration and informal drinks Room 22.5.26 Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (KUA) 18:30 Informal dinner at participants’ own expense (details to be announced) Bryggens Spisehus Islands Brygge 18 2300 København S Phone: (+45) 32540082 www.bryggens.dk VI Thursday 16 April 2009 8:00–10:30 Registration (in front of room 23.0.50) 10:30–10:45 Welcome and practical information (room 23.0.50) 10:45–12:15 1st section. Chair: Paul Widmer 10:45–11:15 Rosemarie Lühr & Susanne Zeilfelder Optimale Onsets im Indogermanischen 11:15–11:45 Andrew Byrd Predicting PIE syllabification through phonotactic analysis 11:45–12:15 Götz Keydana Evidence for non-linear phonological structure in Indo-European: the case of fricative clusters 12:15–13:45 Lunch break 13:45–15:15 2nd section. Chair: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen 13:45–14:45 Eugen Hill Hidden sound laws in the inflectional morphology of Proto-Indo- European 14:45–15:15 Georges-Jean Pinault Remarks on the PIE amphikinetic nouns 15:15–15:30 Coffee break 15:30–17:00 3rd section. Chair: Jenny Helena Larsson 15:30–16:00 Jens Elmegård Rasmussen Rule ordering paradoxes in Indo-European morphophonemics: reintroducing phonetics 16:00–16:30 Joshua Katz Greek ὀπυίω and other words without a digamma 16:30–17:00 Biliana Mihaylova Some cases of the converse of Sievers’ law in Greek 17:00–17:15 Coffee break 17:15–18:15 4th section. Chair: Agnes Korn 17:15–17:45 Tijmen Pronk The “Saussure Effect” in Indo-European languages, other than Greek 17:45–18:15 Lucien van Beek Greek evidence for the “Saussure Effect” reconsidered Friday 17 April 2009 VII 8:00–9:30 Registration (in front of room 23.0.50) 9:30–10:30 5th section. Chair: Thomas Olander 9:30–10:00 Marek Majer The development of Proto-Slavic word-final *-ī, *-ĕ from PIE *-oi, ‘*-ai̯’ 10:00–10:30 Ina Vishogradska Vowel harmony in the Slavonic loanwords hosted in Hungarian (Phonol. characteristics of Slavonic loanwords in non-IE languages) 10:30–10:45 Coffee break 10:45–12.15 6th section. Chair: Rosemarie Lühr 10:45–11:15 Piotr Gąsiorowski The Compass Conspiracy, a footnote to Verner’s Law and some further observations on the reflexes of PIE *-sr- 11:15–11:45 Paolo Milizia On the morphophonemics of Proto-Indo-European *-sk̂e/o- suffixed presents 11:45–12:15 Ilja Seržant Ein tocharisches Lautgesetz *-sl- > -ll-/-l- 12.15–13:45 Lunch break 13:45–15:15 7th section. Chair: Birgit Anette Olsen 13:45–14:45 Martin J. Kümmel Typology and reconstruction: the IE consonants and vowels 14:45–15:15 Paul Widmer Types of ablaut class assignment in non-primary nominal deriva‑ tion 15:15–15:30 Coffee break 15:30–16:30 8th section. Chair: Piotr Gąsiorowski 15:30–16:00 Adam Hyllested The status and prevalence of Proto-Indo-European *a 16:00–16:30 Dieter Steinbauer Proto-Indo-European *kakós ‘bad’ – another good example of unconditioned /a/ 17:30 Sightseeing: Copenhagen from the seaside (for registered participants) VIII Saturday 18 April 2009 8:00–9.00 Registration (in front of room 23.0.50) 9:00–10:30 9th section. Chair: Georges-Jean Pinault 9:00–9:30 Michael Frotscher On final -r in Vedic 9:30–10:00 Irén Hegedűs The ruki-rule in Nuristani 10:00–10:30 Agnes Korn Parthian ž 10:30–10:45 Coffee break 10:45–12:15 10th section. Chair: Irén Hegedűs 10:45–11:15 Václav Blažek On Indo-European correspondences to Afro-Asiatic laryngeals 11:15–11:45 Thomas Smitherman Some consequences of Kartvelian realisations of IE borrowings for the reconstruction of the PIE phonological system 11:45–12:15 Gordon Whittaker Aspects of Euphratic phonology 12:15–13:45 Lunch break 13:45–15:15 11th section. Chair: Benedicte Nielsen 13:45–14:45 Brent Vine PIE mobile accent in Italic: further evidence 14:45–15:15 Kanehiro Nishimura Vowel reduction and deletion in Sabellic: history and chronology 15:15–15:30 Coffee break 15:30–17:00 12th section. Chair: Joshua Katz 15:30–16:00 Paul S. Cohen & Adam Hyllested A new sound law of PIE: initial **h₃w > *h₂w 16:00–16:30 Vitalij Shevoroshkin Indo-European laryngeals in Anatolian 16:30–17:00 Giancarlo Schirru Laryngeal features in stops of Armenian dialects 19:00 Conference dinner (details to be announced) Madklubben Store Kongensgade 66, 1264 København K Phone: (+45) 33 32 32 34; www.madklubben.info Sunday 19 April 2009 IX 10:00–10:45 Registration (in front of room 23.0.50) 10:45–12:15 13th section. Chair: David Stifter 10:45–11:15 Aaron Griffith Raising before *µ in Old Irish: evidence and consequences 11:15–11:45 Anders Richardt Jørgensen The development of Proto-Celtic *sk in Brythonic 11:45–12:15 Nicholas Zair A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic 12.15–13:45 Lunch break 13:45–15:15 14th section. Chair: Hans Götzsche 13:45–14:15 David Stifter The sociophonemics of Late Gaulish 14:15–14:45 Charles Prescott Germanic and the ruki dialects 14:45–15:15 Guus Kroonen The rise of the Germanic iterative verbs: another case of ablaut being translated into consonant gradation 15:15–15:30 Coffee break 15:30–16:30 15th section. Chair: Susanne Zeilfelder 15:30–16:00 Lars Brink The etymology of Danish kone ‘wife etc.’ 16:00–16:30 Alwin Kloekhorst The phonological interpretation of plene and non-plene spelled e in Hittite 16:30–17:00 Zsolt Simon PIE ‘me’ and a new Lydian sound law 17:00–17:15 Coffee break 17:15–18:15 16th section. Chair: Gordon Whittaker 17:15–17:45 José Virgilio García Trabazo Phonologische und morphologische Bemerkungen zu den hethitischen -i̯e/a-Verben 17:45–18:15 Ilya Yakubovich Phonetic interpretation of Hurrian sibilants in the light of IE evidence 18:15 End of the conference 1 On Indo-European correspondences to Afro-Asiatic laryngeals vÁCLAV bLAžеK Masaryk University, Brno The present list of lexical comparisons between Afroasiatic and Indo-Europe- an was chosen according to two criteria: (i) The phonetic correspondences are in agreement with the phonetic rules established by V.M.