New Perspectives on the Early History of Ancient Greek
Conference.
Over the course of the last decade the field of Indo-European studies has undergone a major paradigm shift due to the results of the emerging field of archaeogenetics. At the same time exciting new discoveries in Bronze Age Aegean archaeology continue to provide ever more context for early Greek linguistic evolution and its dialectal differentiation. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers in Ancient Greek philology and linguistics to address new questions and problems in the early history of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to the attested Ancient Greek dialects.
Programme
4 August
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Introduction, Welcome, Introductory Remarks |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Panel 1: New Perspectives in Greek Historical Phonology & Morphology Putting the Accent on Prehistory: New Perspectives in Greek Historical Phonology |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | The Curious Case of Feminine Adjectives in -ος: A Reassessment Stefan Höfler (Universität Wien) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Panel 2: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migrations and Prehistory The Formation of Ancient Greek from a Genomic and Linguistic Perspective
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | Dorian myths of origin and the ethnic and linguistic landscape of Middle and Northern Greece in the Dark Ages George Hinge (Aarhus Universitet) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Panel 3: New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Etymology, Poetics, and Metrics Metrics and Greek historical linguistics: some proverbs in Hesiod’s Works and Days |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | “Semantically unconvincing” Historical Semantics and Etymological Practice Daniel Kölligan (Julius-Maximillians-Universität Würzburg) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | The fat pasture: Greek Βοιωτία and Vedic gávyūti- Tore Rovs Kristoffersen (Københavns Universitet) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Panel 4: New Perspectives from Balkanic Connections The Graeco-Phrygian Verbal System: An attempt at reconstruction |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Greco-Albanian in Time and Space Adam Hyllested (Københavns Universitet) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Keynote Cladistics and Linguistic Realism |
| 19:00 | Dinner – TBA |
5 August
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Panel 5: New Perspectives on Greeks and Non-Greek Interactions in the Aegean Do we really know ‘Minoan’ Linear A? Exploring alternative taxonomic approaches |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Non-Indo-European Substrates and Ancient Greek: Some Methodological Problems of Investigation |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Panel 6: New Perspectives on Dialects and Dialectology Reconstructing subgrouping and convergence among second millennium dialects |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
The riddle of Ancient Macedonian: the perspective from the glosses |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Closing session Roundtable Discussion |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Wrap-up Remarks |
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