Programme + Book of Abstracts

Book of abstracts

Book of Abstracts AT 2025

Monday 15.9. 

08:30-09:15 Registration
09:15-9:30 Introduction + Info (Dita Frantikova, prof. Petr Zemánek, Theresa Maria Roth)
chair Theresa Maria Roth
9:30-10:00 Roberto Batisti, Stefan Höfler

Revisiting the Relative Chronology of the First Compensatory Lengthening in Ancient Greek: A Two-Wave Model

10:00-10:30 David Sasseville

Die geschlechtigen n-Stämme im Hethitischen und Palaischen: Analogie und Chronologie

10:30-11:00 Miguel Villanueva Svenson

On the expansion of the Germanic weak preterit: the preterite-presents

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
chair Thomas Olander
11:30-12:00 Eystein Dahl (Tania Ahmad and Krzysztof Stroński)

Alignment, Subjecthood and Transitivity Prominence in Indo-European

12:00-12:30 Viktoria Reiter

De-prefixed truths miscalled simplicia? Simplex versus prefixed secondary verbs in Old Church Slavonic

12:30-13:00 Sander van Hes

Archaisms and innovations in the Old Prussian sources: verbs in -ā /-ai and -ē / -ei

13:00-14:30 Lunch break
Chair Ronald Kim
14:30-15:00 John Clayton

The chronology and environments of *wr > *ru metathesis

15:00-15:30 Chiara Bozzone

Hesiod, the Gortyn Law Code, and the Problem of Accusative Plurals in Greek

15:30-16:00 Elisa Migliaretti

Latin Verb-Object Compounds: Deep Archaism or (Failed) Borrowing?

16:00-16:30 Agnes Korn, Simon Poulsen

A tree or not: An East Iranian experiment

16:45-17:45 Networking Event by the PIE Women’s Collective (room P303)
18:00, 19:15 Guided tour of the Prague city centre (optional, in English, led by Justyna Otrubova, student of the Comparative linguistics and Ancient Greek programmes)

Tuesday 16.9. 

chair Anthony Yates
9:00-9:30 Craig Melchert

Distinguishing Archaisms, Innovations and Errors in Hittite Manuscripts

9:30-10:00 Thomas Olander

Laryngeal colouring in Indo-European

10:00-10:30 Theresa Roth and Matteo Macciò 

Perception and Evidentiality in Galen’s Medical Works

10:30-11:00 Ilya Yakubowich

Non-Hittite Anatolian verbal stem formation and relative chronology

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
chair Sander van Hes
11:30-12:00 Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Harald Bichlmeier

Zur relativen Chronologie der Umlauterscheinungen im Baktrischen

12:00-12:30 Martin Kümmel

The primary palatals in Proto-Iranic: Still palatal?

12:30-13:00 Eugen Hill

Baltic prosody: archaisms and innovations

13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-17:00 Talks in paralel sessions (lecture halls P 300 resp. P 301)
chair: session 1/session 2 Simon Poulsen/Stefan Höfler
14:30-15:00

Session 1

Michele Bianconi

Greek ταρ and Luwian -tar: archaism, innovation, or an εἴδωλον γραμματικῶν?

14:30-15:00

Session 2

Jan Bičovský

The anticlimactic etymology of PIE ‘both’

15:00-15:30

Session 1

Marco Fattori

Late Achaemenid Scribes and Old Persian Language. On judging conservation, innovation and error in a tiny handful of texts

15:00-15:30

Session 2

Jonas Döll

The Etymology of Lyc. A qehñ(n)- and the Paradigm of PIE Neuter n-Stems

15:30-16:00

Session 1

Axel I. Palmér

Relative chronology in the development of palatal (*ć, *j́⁽ʰ⁾) clusters in Indo-Iranian

15:30-16:00

Session 2

Ramón Boldt – online presentation

Innovationen und Archaismen im altwestnordischen Verbalsystem. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Vergleichs zum Altenglischen

16:00-16:30

Session 1

Harald Bichlmeier

Die relative Chronologie slawischer und deutscher Lautgesetze und ihre Rolle bei der Erklärung von Ortsnamen slawischer Herkunft in Nordostbayern

16:00-16:30
Session 2
Tore Kristoffersen – online presentation

Through fire and butter – Indo-European etymology and ritual reconstruction

16:30-17:00

Session 2

Aljoša Šorgo – online presentation

The Phrygian 3rd Person Singular Active Secondary Ending -t

The conference dinner will be held in the Main Hall of the Prague City Hall (Marianske namesti 2, Praha 1), from 18:00. All are warmly welcome! They payment can be done either with the online registration or at the registration desk.

Wednesday 17.9. 

chair Eystein Dahl
9:00-9:30 José L. García Ramón

Archaisms versus innovations and relative chronology in the reconstruction of IE phraseology

9:30-10:00 Gabriele Giannecchini

Innovation or persistence? The inflection of Hittite talugi- ‘long’ revisited.

10:00-10:30 Andrey Shatskov

The rise of periphrastic perfects in Hittite

10:30-11:00 Paola Dardano

On some participial constructions in Hittite: absolute constructions or converbs?

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
chair Elisabeth Rieken
11:30-12:00 Anthony Yates

Inheritance, not innovation: the (morpho)syntax of motion verbs in Hittite, Anatolian, and Indo-European

12:00-12:30 Gerard Spaans

When innovation cannot prevent the collapse of the system: the case of the ablative third-person pronouns of Old Albanian

12:30-13:00 Giuseppina di Bartolo & Simon Fries

Insubordination across ancient Indo-European languages: An analysis of the NEG + THAT-clause construction

13:00-14:30 Lunch break
chair Ilya Yakubovich
14:30-15:00 Alwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk

Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems

15:00-15:30 Ronald Kim

Revisiting Verner’s Law in Gothic: the distribution of s and z

15:30-16:00 Elisabeth Rieken, Marco Ammazzini

Affix Ordering in Hittite