Faculty sponsors: Petra Goedegebuure and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Student coordinators:
2018 – 2020: Matt Hewett (Linguistics Department).
2020 – : Zeineb Sellami and Sami Jiries (NELC Department)
Meetings
2018 – 2019
30 oct 2018 — Petra Goedegebuure (Faculty, NELC): Nominal Aspect and Individuation in Hittite and Luwian
29 nov 2018 — Drew Burlingame (student, NELC): Negation, Indefiniteness, and Polarity: An Unusual Ugaritic Legal Text in Linguistic Perspective
22 Jan 2019 — Ambjörn Sjörs (Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Uppsala): The ventive and middle semantics in Akkadian
21 Feb 2019 — Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee (Faculty, NELC): Akkadian as an “archaic” language: A look at its retentions and innovations with special focus on the pronominal system.
23 Apr 2019 — Dennis Pardee (faculty NELC): “COMMENT DIT-ON « BAʿLU ʾUGĀRIT » EN HOURRITE ? HISTOIRE D’UN JOINT MALVENU DE DEUX FRAGMENTS DE TABLETTES DÉCOUVERTS À RAS SHAMRA EN 1929, ” or “How Do You Say baʿlu ʾugārit in Hurrian? The History of an Unfortunate Join of Two Tablet Fragments Discovered at Ras Shamra in 1929.”
23 May 2019 — Brendan Hainline (student, NELC): Unusual Features of Egyptian Demonstratives in the Pyramid Texts
2019 – 2020
17 Oct 2019 — Matt Hewett (student Linguistics): Dislocations in Biblical Hebrew
7 Nov 2019 — Hongwei Zhang (student NELC): Old Amharic: Facts and Problems
23 Jan 2020 — Marta Díaz Herrera (student NELC): Do You read Sumerian? Literary and Philological analysis of Enmerkar’s invention of writing
6 Feb 2020 — Discussion of readings on Language contact and distinguishing internally- from externally-motivated changes
28 Feb 2020 — Madadh Richey (PhD, NELC): “New Early Aramaic Inscriptions and the Limits of Dialectology”
13 March 2020 (CANCELED) — Petra Goedegebuure (Faculty, NELC): “Hattian between Luwian and Palaic: two different types of interference, one socio-political situation”
1 May 2020 — Zoom discussion of Zorman, M. (2017). Areal features of Hittite conditionals: Consequences for the reconstruction of Indo-European. Diachronica 34:2. 253-77.
15 May 2020 — Zoom discussion of Stokes, Phillip W. (2018). The plural demonstratives and relatives based on *’Vl in Arabic and the origin of dialectal illii. In Re-engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies, ed. Daniel Birnstiel and Na’ama Pat-El, 127–150. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
22 May 2020 — Emily Smith (student, NELC): “Eating and Drinking in Hittite” (Zoom)
29 May 2020 — Zoom discussion of Civil, Miguel. (2005). Modal prefixes. ASJ 22:29-42.
2020 – 2021
22 Oct 2020 — Zoom discussion of Garret, A. (2006) “Conversion in the formation of Indo-European Subgroups: Phylogeny and Chronology,” In Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew (eds.), Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, 139–151. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
12 Nov 2020 —Brendan Hainline (PhD, NELC): “Lexical Replacement in Early Egyptian Hieroglyphs” (Zoom)
3 Dec 2020 — Hongwei Zhang (student, NELC): “Can we reconstruct patterns for Afroasiatic?” (Zoom)
