1.11 Classics Faculty


2013-02-06 16:30: How many languages were spoken in the ancient world? (James Clackson, Cambridge)

2013-02-20 16:30: Latin as a minority language in late Roman Britain (Paul Russell (ASNAC, Cambridge))

2013-02-27 16:30: Greek in Egypt, a heavyweight minority language (Marja Vierros (Helsinki/New York University))

2013-10-23 16:30: The ab urbe condita construction in Latin - an LFG account (Dag Haug)

2013-10-30 16:30: 'Formal syntax and language phylogeny (Pino Longobardi)

2013-11-06 16:30: An LFG analysis of the Latin reflexive (Marius Johndahl)

2013-11-13 16:30: Reconstructing phonological change in Latin: reductionist versus structural diachronic explanations (Ranjan Sen)

2014-10-15 16:30: Greek disguised as Romance?  Interpreting language  convergence and  divergence in terms of parameter hierarchies (Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge))

2014-10-22 16:30: Greek-Turkish language contacts in the Ottoman Empire: ways of verbal  integration (Mark Janse (Gent/Oxford))

2014-10-29 16:30: Monolingual bilinguals? Exploring Greek-Latin code switching with Fronto and friends (Alex Mullen (Oxford))

2014-11-12 16:30: Types of Greek interference in Latin medical translations (David Langslow (Manchester))

2014-11-19 16:30: Scribes,  'scribes' and language contact in Greco-Roman Egypt (Martti Leiwo (Helsinki))

2015-02-11 16:30: From 'RUN' to 'HELP': Anatolian, Core Indo-European and the chronology of a semantic shift (Prof. J. L. García Ramón (Cologne))

2015-03-04 16:30: On phylogenetic classification (Dr Annemarie Verkerk (Reading))

2015-03-11 16:30: "A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration" (Dr Rebecca Grollemund (Reading))

2015-06-17 16:30: The family tree of Iranian and its problems (Agnes Korn )

2016-02-10 16:30: The syntax and semantics of -τος adjectives in Ancient Greek (Rob Crellin (Copenhagen))

2016-02-17 16:30: Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A response to Parker and Ringe (Rupert Thompson and Matthew Scarborough  (Cambridge))

2016-02-24 16:30: A diachronic perspective on the temporality of the Greek infinitive (Jerneja Kavčič (Ljubljana))

2016-03-09 16:30: Word order and the Attic Orators: towards a modern linguistic account of ancient stylistic terminology (Coulter George (Virginia))

2016-10-26 16:30: Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis (Juliette Blevins (Graduate Center, CUNY))

2016-11-09 16:30: Indo-European and Iranian layers of Armenian vocabulary: the case of month names (Hrach Martirosyan (Vienna))

2016-11-16 16:30: Orthography, <ει>? Spellings in Papyri, Uncials, and Tyndale House’s *The New Testament in its Original Greek* (Patrick James (Cambridge))

2016-11-23 16:30: Being non-binary: gender assignment in Old High German (Sheila Watts)

2018-10-10 16:30: Introduction to the term’s reading seminar on A. Willi Origins of the Greek Verb  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-24 16:30: Double accusatives in Ancient Greek: διδάσκω between traditional and modern approaches (Marina Benedetti )

2018-11-07 16:30: PIE alignment change and the emergence of the thematic conjugation: Two sides of the same diachronic coin? (Roland Pooth, Ghent)

2018-11-21 16:30: The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration (Klaas Bentein, Ghent)

2019-01-23 16:30: Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass (Willemijn Waal, Leiden)

2019-01-30 16:30: 1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-02-06 16:30: Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences (Maria José Estaran 	University of Zaragoza)

2019-02-27 16:30: Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger (Anna Chahoud 	Trinity College, Dublin)

2019-03-06 16:30: A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor (Bill Short 			University of Exeter )

2020-01-29 16:30: 'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling (Nicholas Zair, Cambridge)

2020-02-12 16:30: The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic (Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary) )

2020-02-19 16:30: Causatives in Sanskrit (Antonia Ruppel (Oxford))

2020-03-11 16:30: Left dislocation (Hilla Halla-aho (Helsinki))