List of activities

Activities 2011
Activities 2010
Activities 2009
Activities 2008

International Conferences
Block Seminars
Board Member Talks

To see the activities of a specific person go to their staff profile.

Activities 2019

Höfler, Stefan. 12.10.2019. Slaying men, or an etymology? Homeric ἀνδρειφόντης. Paper presented at the conference Indo-European Religion and Poetics, Copenhagen.

Hyllested, Adam. 19.11.2019. The Indo-Europeans in a new perspective: language and migrations in prehistoric Europe (in Danish). University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Guus Kroonen. 27.02.2019. The Roots of Europe: archaeology, genetics, linguistics (in Danish). Presentation at Wine and Science, Natural History Museum of Denmark.

—. 12.04.2019. The Linguistic Legacy of the Pitted Ware Culture (with Rune Iversen). Presentation at the 84^th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, Albuquerque.

—. 10.05.2019. The earliest Germanic contacts with the Uralic languages: dating the arrival of Germanic and Finnic speakers in Fenno-Scandia. Presentation at the workshop Contacts: Archaeology, genetics, languages, Helsinki.

—. 13.05.2019. Genetics, migrations and language through 3000 years (in Danish). Presentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Science.

Massetti, Laura. 18.02.2019. The phraseological story of Gk. πολισσόε (Homeric Hymn 8.2). Presentation at Coloquio Cratylus en lenguas clásicas e indoeuropeas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

—. 21.02.2019. Una principessa e una dea: C’era forse un incesto nella Bella Addormentata? Presentation at I figli di Eolo. Il motivo mitico e letterario dell’incesto nel passaggio tra culture e epoche diverse, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy.

—. 07.06.2019. ‘The wage of rightness, the song of excellence.’ On the inherited collocations of Vedic r̥tá , Avestan aṣ̌a. Presentation at IG Arbeitstagung, Ljubljana, Slovenien.

—. 26.06.2019. In the Bosom of the Goddess. Thetis and Dionysus, (D)Teš(i)mi and (D)U (URU)Nerik. Presentation at Celtic Conference in Classics, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

—. 06.09.2019. Gender Matters. Gender Differentiation and Divine Avatars in the Indo-European Pantheon: Two Case Studies. Presentation at the 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Bern.

—. 26.09.2019. To fix like a chariot: On PS 4.15.6–7, ŚS 4.12.6–7. Presentation at The Atharvaveda and its South Asian Contexts, University of Zürich.

—. 11.10.2019. Ombra mai fu or Hanging the Sun: Solar Myths, Rituals and Language”. Indo-European Religion and Poetics – A Comparative Approach: Myth, Ritual and Language. University of Copenhagen.

—. 29–31.10.2019. Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. Liceo Scientifico Elio Vittorini, Milano.

—. 29.10.2019. The Nartic Hymn to Hermes: On the Invention of Musical Instruments in the Caucasus and Greece (In cooperation with the “Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica”), Università Statale di Milano.

—. 06.11.2019. ‘Hermes and Hestia Revisited’.  31^st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. University of California Los Angeles.

Olander, Thomas. 22.06.2019. Det danske lydsystem. Presentation at Årsmøde for danske lektorer i udlandet, Sorø (in Danish).

—. 22.06.2019. PIE *b in a cladistic perspective. Presentation at the XXXVIII East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Olsen, Birgit Anette. 06.06.2019. Insiders and outsiders. The etymology of Slavic vъnukъ ‘grandchild’. Presentation at IG Arbeitstagung, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

—. 23.06.2019. Father Sky and the Wide-Eyed Cow. Presentation at the XXXVIII East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Søborg, Tobias Mosbæk. 07.06.2019. Sampling the sources of the Hittite preterite 3sg. in ‑š. Presentation at the IG Arbeitstagung, Ljubljana, Slovenien.

Søborg, Tobias Mosbæk. 07.06.2019. Sampling the sources of the Hittite preterite 3sg. in ‑š. Foredrag ved IG Arbeitstagung, Ljubljana, Slovenien.

Nielsen Whitehead, Benedicte. 27.02.2019. Arierne – den nazistiske fiktion og de videnskabelige fakta (in Danish). Presentation at Vin og Videnskab, Statens Naturvidenskabelige Museum, København.

Activities 2011

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: Pre-Semester Danish Language Course – Culture Section (Copenhagen, 19 January 2011)
  From Proto-Indo-European to Modern Danish, from the Black Sea Region to Southern Scandinavia – a 5,000 Years' Stroll Through the History of the Danish Language

• Kroonen, Guus: Workshop Contact in the Baltic Sea Region (Department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German at the University of Stockholm, 8 April 2011)
  Old Norse æðr ‘eider’: another loanword from/in Saami?

• Olander, Thomas: Individual talk (HF-Centret Efterslægten, 14 May 2011)
  "Sprogslægtskab" ("Language relationships")

• Olander, Thomas: Individual talk (Christianshavns Gymnasium, 7 and 12 September 2011)
  Sprogudvikling ("Language development")

• Kroonen, Guus: Språk- och litteraturcentrum (Lunds Universitet, 15 October 2011)
  On the role of Elfdalian in the reconstruction of the Proto-Germanic nasal vowels

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: Lecture to first year high school students at Odsherreds Gymnasium (Asnæs, 23 November 2011)
  Sproglig variation og sproget i praksis

Activities 2010

• Olander, Thomas: Workshop on Indo-European accentology (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, March 2010)
  Indo-European heritage in the Balto-Slavic accentuation system

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: Indo-European Verb Conference (Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010)
  The Albanian Medio-Passive

• Olander, Thomas: Individual lecture (Christianshavns Gymnasium, 21 and 28 September 2010)
  "Sprogudvikling" ("Language development")

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: Copenhagen Culture Night 2010 (Copenhagen, 15 October 2010)
  Mørke og sorte ords historie helt tilbage til de dunkleste tider

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: Lecture to first year high school students at Odsherreds Gymnasium (Asnæs, 16 November 2010)
  Sproglig variation og sproget i praksis 

Activities 2009

• Hyllested, Adam: Torsdagsseminar på Forskerskole Øst (Copenhagen, 5 March 2009)
  Det fælles indoeuropæiske og uralske ordforråd

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: Torsdagsseminar på Forskerskole Øst (Copenhagen, 5 March 2009)
  Fjernt sprogslægtskab

• Gliwa, Bernd: 45. Artura Ozola dienas konference (Riga, 20-21 March 2009)
  Latviešu valodas augu nosaukumi etimoloģijas pētniecībā

• Hyllested, Adam: The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics (Copenhagen, 16-19 April 2009)
  The status and prevalence of Proto-Indo-European *a

• Cohen, Paul & Hyllested, Adam: The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics (Copenhagen, 16-19 April 2009)
  A new sound law of PIE: initial **h3w > *h2w

• Jørgensen, Anders Richardt: The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics (Copenhagen, 16-19 April 2009)
  The development of Proto-Celtic *sk in Brythonic

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics (Copenhagen, 16-19 April 2009)
  Rule ordering paradoxes in Indo-European morphophonemics: reintroducing
  phonetics

• Hyllested, Adam: Migrationer og individuel mobilitet i forhistorien (Copenhagen, 5-6 May 2009)
  Sprog og migrationer: indoeuropæiseringen af Europa

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: Migrationer og individuel mobilitet i forhistorien (Copenhagen, 5-6 May 2009)
  Trubetzkoys tanker om indoeuropæisk: en myte på mode

• Olander, Thomas: Annual summer meeting for Danish lecturers abroad (Hindsgavl Slot, 29 July 2009)
  Undervisning i dansk udtale ("Teaching Danish pronunciation")

• Larsson, Jenny Helena: XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009)
  Recent developments in Baltic language history: New perspectives on the Baltic ablaut system

• Olander, Thomas: Individual lecture (Christianshavns Gymnasium, 17 August and 1 September 2009)
  Sprogforandring ("Language change")

• Olsen, Birgit Anette: 6th Dahlem Indo-European Summer School (Berlin, 31 August-4 September 2009)
  Indo-European Noun Formation

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: 6th Dahlem Indo-European Summer School (Berlin, 31 August-4 September 2009)
  Indogermanische Morphophonemik

• Olander, Thomas: Individual lecture (Østre Borgerdydskole, 29 October 2009)
  Sprogforandring ("Language change")

• Hyllested, Adam: 21st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 30-31 October 2009)
  The precursors of Celtic and Germanic 

• Olsen, Birgit Anette: 21st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 30-31 October 2009)
  Martinet's rule of laryngeal hardening - a reappraisal 

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: 21st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 30-31 October 2009)
  Some debated Hittite verbs: marginalia to recent scholarship 

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: Lecture to first year high school students at Odsherreds Gymnasium (Asnæs, 18 November 2009)
  Sproglig variation og sproget i praksis

Activities 2008

• Hyllested, Adam: IVth International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology (IWoBA; Scheibbs, Austria, 2-4 July 2008)
  The Accentuation of Lithuanian žálti ‘become green’ vs. žal~vas ‘green’ and Similar Cases

• Olander, Thomas: The IVth International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology (IWoBA; Scheibbs, Austria, 2-4 July 2008)
  The Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms: new perspectives

• Hyllested, Adam: XIV International Congress of Slavists (Ohrid, Macedonia, 10-16 September 2008)
  Indo-European Substrates in Balto-Slavic Revisited

• Olander, Thomas: XIV International Congress of Slavists (Ohrid, Macedonia, 10-16 September 2008)
  The Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms: new perspectives
  

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: XIIIth International Conference of the Society of Indo-European Studies (Salzburg, 21-27 September 2008)
  Long Roots Long Back in Time - the Prehistory of the Indo-European ERU/RŪ-roots

• Hyllested, Adam: XIIIth International Conference of the Society of Indo-European Studies (Salzburg, 21-27 September 2008)
  The Precursors of Celtic and Germanic

• Olsen, Birgit Anette: XIIIth International Conference of the Society of Indo-European Studies (Salzburg, 21-27 September 2008)
  On the Origin and Morphological Ramification of the Greek Type hippéus

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: XIIIth International Conference of the Society of Indo-European Studies (Salzburg, 21-27 September 2008)
  Herkunft und Status des w-Präsens im Indogermanischen

• Gliwa, Bernd: Tarptautinė Kazimiero Būgos konferencija:
  etimologija ir onomastika (Vilnius, 26-27 September 2008)
  Pflanzennamen mit Präfix /pa-/ und Angrenzendes im
  Lettischen und Litauischen

• Hyllested, Adam: 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 31 October-1 November 2008)
  Fenno-Ugric *-š- as Laryngeal Substitution in Words of Indo-European Provenance

• Olsen, Birgit Anette: 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 31 October-1 November 2008)
  On the Indo-European Status of Determinative Compounds

• Rasmussen, Jens Elmegård: 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (Los Angeles, 31 October-1 November 2008)
  A Note on Anatolian i-Mutation ("i -Motion")

• Gliwa, Bernd: VĀRDS UN TĀ PĒTĪŠANAS ASPEKTI (Liepaja, 27-28 November 2008)
  Latviešu un lietuviešu orhideju nosaukumi un to etimoloģija

• Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard: Lecture to first year high school students at Odsherreds Gymnasium (Asnæs, 9 December 2008)
  Sproglig variation og sprogforandring

• Gliwa, Bernd: Latvijas un kaimiņvalstu pieredze vēsturisko vārdnīcu izstrādē (Riga, 19 December 2008)
  Senās vārdnīcās kā atsauce 'Baltu valodu augu nosaukumu etimoloģijas vārdnīcai'

International Conferences

• The Split: Reconstructing Early Indo-European Language and Culture
  (13.-15. september 2017)

• Trið råðstemną um övdalskų (Third conference on Elfdalian)
  (7-8 May 2015)

• Nordic TAG 2015 Conference
  (17-18 April 2015)

• Etymology and the European Lexicon
  (17 – 22 September 2012)

• The sound of Indo-European - phonetics, phonemics and morphophonemics
  (16 – 19 April 2009)

Block Seminars

• Professor Aleksandar Loma from The Serbian Academi and PhD-scholar Orsat Ligorio from The University in Leiden/The University in Zadar: Indo-European heroic poetry and Slavic epics - some mutual insights (15-17 May 2013)

• Professor Brent Vine, Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Studies in Latin etymology and phonology (8 - 10 October 2012)

• Professor Elisabeth Rieken, Institut für Orientalistik und Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg. Speeches at the seminar Analtolian spring in Copenhagen (27 - 30 April 2011)

• Professor Brian Joseph, Ohio State University: Albanian in Indo-European, Albanian in the Balkans: Archaisms and Innovations. (25-27 May 2010)

• Professor Alan Nussbaum, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University: Morphology and Semantics of Some Indo-European Denominal Derivational Types (18 - 20 May 2010)

• Professor Martin Kümmel, Department of Indo-European and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg: Problems in Indo-European Phonology (21 – 23 September 2011)

• Postdoc Bernd Gliwa, Baltu valodniecības, Latvijas universitāte:
  Baltic Languages, Folk Belief and Natural Science (10-12 November 2010)

• Professor Michael Janda, Institut für Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Münster: Greek and Indo-European Religion (11 - 13 October 2010)

• Dr Antje Casaretto, Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne Gothic word formation (25 – 27 February 2009)

• Dr Mary Bachvarova, Classical Studies, Willamette University: The roots of epic and tragedy - the Near Eastern component in literary genres of antiquity (16 – 18 September 2009)

• Professor Peter Jackson, Universitety of Tromsø: Block seminar on Indo-European Mythology and Poetics (3-5 December 2008).

Also, the internal and external researchers will give guest lectures and/or teach block seminars on their present research projects. Please find announcements in the calendar and presentations of the lecturers here.

Board Member Talks

An annual board meeting was held in Copenhagen in the years 2009-2013. Several of the members of the board gave a talk on these occasions:

• 2013: Indo-European rules
• 2012: Indo-European words that matter
• 2011: Indo-European matters even more
• 2010: Indo-European still matters
• 2009: Indo-European matters