Series

Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars

The Comparative Indo-European Linguistics Seminars are held approximately once every month at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

True to their name, the seminars focus on Indo-European linguistic matters, and offer scholars from Leiden and abroad a platform to discuss their research and exchange ideas in a collaborative and informal atmosphere.

All those interested in Indo-European linguistics, staff, visiting scholars and (former) students, are cordially invited to attend seminars. If you wish to be kept up to date about future seminars, or if you would like to present yourself, please contact the organisers via email.

Programme

31 Oct
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars The origin of Lithuanian DAUG ‘many’ Daniel Petit
01 Mar
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Recent runic finds, mostly from the earliest runic period AD 0-500 Tineke Looijenga
22 Mar
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars A New Database, Family Tree and Origins Hypothesis for the Indo-European Language Family Paul Heggarty
26 Apr
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Kusundic, a possible linguistic substrate in the Himalayas Timotheus A. Bodt
10 Nov
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Ama – a warrior deity in the Avesta, his name and functions, and their Indo-Iranian and Indo-European backgrounds Velizar Sadovski
15 Dec
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Anatolian evidence for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European 1st and 2nd plural personal pronouns Alwin Kloekhorst
13 Oct
Conference | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Alternating Dat-Nom / Nom-Dat constructions in Indo-European and the Extended Intransitive Hypothesis Jóhanna Barðdal
29 Sep
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Conceptual Metaphors and Etymology: the case of Homeric Greek κερτομέω ‘to mock’ Lucien van Beek
02 Jun
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Sociolinguistic Features in Vedic Sanskrit: Women’s Speech in Seduction and Curse Charms of the Atharvaveda Carmen Sylvia Spiers
08 May
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Multicultural structure at the satrapal centre Daskyleion in North-western Anatolia Kaan İren
21 Apr
Lecture | CIEL Seminars Dative plural endings of the o- and ā-stems in Ancient Greek and a potential early syncretism between Instrumental and Dative in Mycenaean Greek
31 Mar
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars From reconstructing to constructing languages: How I created two conlangs for a movie about the Neolithic Revolution Tobias Søborg
17 Feb
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars A ruki mistake? From aporia to apriorism
16 Dec
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Equine coat colors in Indo-Iranian Sasha Lubotsky
25 Nov
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Reconstructing Indo-European: a case for uncertainty Paul Widmer
21 Oct
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Revisiting the vocalism of the Iranian loanwords in Hungarian
23 Sep
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Graeco-Aryan’ between myth and method Simon Poulsen
20 May
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Proto-Indo-European Loanwords in Proto-Kartvelian: A Reconsideration Zsolt Simon (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
29 Apr
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars War, peace and commerce in the ancient Tarim Basin: investigating language contact between Khotanese and Tocharian Federico Dragoni
01 Apr
Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Ἀργεϊφόντης: Etymology, Meaning and Myth Laura Massetti (Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies / University of Oxford)