Conference

The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)

• Guus Kroonen
• Michaël Peyrot

Date

Monday 5 September 2022 - Wednesday 7 September 2022

Address

P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden

Room

1.01

Registration and fees

Note that conference tickets do not include the conference dinner, which has to be booked separately. The deadline for registration for the conference dinner is August 25. The fees for the conference tickets are: - Standard without dinner (€50) - Student/PhD without dinner (€25) - Online participation without dinner (€7) - Conference dinner (€35) Please register via the link below

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We are pleased to announce that the next Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft will be held from 5 to 7 September 2022 at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. The event is currently planned to take place on site with the possibility of online attendance. 

Theme

The field of Indo-European Linguistics currently finds itself at the center of a scientific revolution. Complementing the traditional arguments from archaeology and historical linguistics, advances in the study of ancient DNA and stable isotopes have opened a new line of evidence on the human past. It is the task of Indo-European linguistics to confront the resulting new challenges and opportunities. While the debate on the Proto-Indo-European homeland has been addressed by several large cross-disciplinary studies, key questions remain concerning the movements, settlements and secondary centers of spread of the Indo-European daughter branches. The aim of this conference is to evaluate existing and explore new linguistic hypotheses concerning the routes and secondary homelands of the branches of Indo-European after the split of the proto-language.

Keynote speaker(s)

• Prof. David Emil Reich, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Prof. em. James P. Mallory, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Programme

Arrival and welcome

Sunday, 4 September

16:30-19:00 Reception and registration at Grandcafé de Burcht, Tuinzaal.

Day 1

8:30-9:00		Registration
9:00-9:05	Daniel Kölligan (President of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft)	Opening
9:05-9:30	Guus Kroonen and Michaël Peyrot	Introduction
9:30-10:00	David Stifter	The Celticisation of the Western Archipelago
10:00-10:30	Paulus van Sluis	The linguistic paleontology of beekeeping in Indo-European and Celtic
10:30-11:00		Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Andrew Wigman	Unde vēnis: Approximating the Proto-Italic homeland using substrate lexemes
11:30-12:00	Paul Widmer	Detecting contact events between three Indo-European clades: Germanic, Celtic, Italic
12:00-12:30	Dariusz Piwowarczyk	Towards a cladistic approach to the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European roots
12:30-14:00		Lunch break
14:00-14:30	Olav Hackstein	Albanian and Balkan Indo-European
14:30-15:00	Katsiaryna Ackermann, Joachim Matzinger and Mario Gavranovic	The Indo-Europeanization of the Balkans: Some new insights at the interface of archaeology, archaeogenetics and historical linguistics
15:00-15:30	Julia Sturm	Local weather phenomena in the Indo-European daughter languages: A survey
15:30-16:00		Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Jim Mallory	(Keynote lecture) Secondary homelands, primary problems

Day 2

9:00-9:30	Hrach Martirosyan	Armenian animal designations
9:30-10:00	Zsolt Simon	The migration route of Proto-Armenian speakers in Neo-Hittite Anatolia: the evidence of loan contacts
10:00-10:30	Rasmus Thorsø	Armenian and the early Yamnaya migrations
10.30-11.00		Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Petr Kocharov	Proto-Armenian phonetic contact phenomena
11:30-12:00	Louise Friis	Testing an Indo-Tocharian isogloss: *e/o-presents in Tocharian
12:00-12:30	Stefan Norbruis	The position of Tocharian in the Indo-European language family
12:30-14:00		Lunch break
14:00-14:30	Rasmus Bjørn	The Goldilocks Zone: Bronze Age Wanderwörter in Central Asia – Linguistic evidence for Indo-European in Afanasievo
14:30-15:00	Abel Warries	Contacts between Tocharian and Uralic: when and where?
15:00-15:30	Michaël Peyrot	The tertiary homeland of Tocharian: On the drivers and the chronology of the trajectory to the Tarim Basin
15:30-16:00		Coffee break
17:30-18:30	David Reich	(Keynote lecture) The genetic history of the Southern Arc: a bridge between West Asia and Europe (open to the public, free of charge)
19:00 onward		Conference dinner

Day 3

9:00-9:30	Harald Bichlmeier	On the Slavic settlement of North-Eastern Bavaria
9:30-10:00	Anthony Jakob	The West Uralic substrate and the Baltic homeland
10:00-10:30	Eugen Hill	Secondary homelands of the Slavs and the evolution of Proto-Slavonic phonology
10.30-11.00		Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Guus Kroonen, Anthony Jakob, Axel Palmér and Paulus van Sluis	A Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages
11:30-12:00	Axel Palmér	Assessing the value of Indo-Slavic lexical isoglosses as evidence for a Corded Ware origin of Indo-Iranian
12:00-12:30	Thomas Olander and Simon Poulsen	Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic
12:30-14:00		Lunch break
14:00-14:30	Chams Bernard and Sampsa Holopainen	Iranian migrations: Uralic and Tocharian evidence
14:30-15:00	Roland Pooth	Steppe burial rites and the building of a kurgan in the Atharvaveda
15:00-15:30	Martin Kümmel	The homelands of Indo-Iranic
15:30-16:00		Coffee break
16:00-16:50		Discussion session
16:50-17:00	Guus Kroonen and Michaël Peyrot	Closing remarks

Publication

Conference proceedings will be published with Reichert Verlag. The deadline for final drafts of accepted papers is 30 November 2022.

We look forward to welcoming you in Leiden! If you need a hotel, please check this PDF for suggestions.

The chairs,

Guus Kroonen & Michaël Peyrot — with the assistance of Axel I. Palmér & Louise S. Friis.

On behalf of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Daniel Kölligan, Agnes Korn & Birgit Olsen.