Lectures presented at professional conferences:
'Hittite uwaš and Relatives,' Second East Coast
Indo-European Conference, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, June 1,
1983
'Collective and Individual
Plural in Hittite,' Third East Coast Indo-European Conference, Univ. of
Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, June 1, 1984
'PIE Velars in Luvian,'
Fourth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, June 7,
1985
'Reflexes of PIE
Laryngeals in Anatolian,' Fifth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Princeton
Univ., Princeton, NJ,
June 13, 1986
'The Vowel System of
Lycian and Common Anatolian,' Sixth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Yale
Univ., New
Haven, CN, June 3, 1987
'Relative Chronology and
Anatolian,' (invited lecture) VIII. Fachtagung der indo-germanischen
Gesellschaft, Leiden,
Holland, September 4, 1987
'Luvo-Hittite Vocalism
and Anatolian Chronologies,' Seventh East Coast Indo-European Conference, UNC,
Chapel Hill,
NC, May 11, 1988
'The Middle Voice in
Lycian,' Eighth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Harvard Univ., Cambridge,
MA, June 10,
1989
'A New Interpretation of
Lines c 3-9 of the Xanthos Stele,' 2. Internationales Lykien-Symposion, Vienna,
Austria, May 7,
1990
'Third Person Present in
Lydian,' Ninth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia,
PA, May, 1990
'The So-called
"Historical Present" in Hittite,' (invited lecture) UCLA IE
Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 24,
1991
'Luvo-Lycian Verbs in -īti,
-ainti/-idi, -eiti,' Tenth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Somerville
College, Oxford,
July 5, 1991
'A New Anatolian "Law
of Finals",' Eleventh East Coast Indo-European Conference, Univ. of
Georgia, Athens, GA,
June 5, 1992
'The Feminine Gender in
Anatolian,' (invited lecture) IX. Fachtagung der indogermanischen Gesellschaft,
Zürich,
Switzerland,October 6, 1992
'"Cop's Law"
in Common Anatolian,' Holger Pedersen Kolloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, March
28, 1993
'Hittite Verbs in -anna/i-,'
Twelfth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, June 9,
1993
'Nominal Inflection in
Neo-Hittite,' Second International Hittite Congress, Pavia, Italy, July 2, 1993
'Tocharian and Anatolian
Plurals in -nta,' Thirteenth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Univ.
of Texas,
Austin, TX, May 29, 1994
'Anatolian,' Third
Workshop on Comparative Linguistics (Subgrouping), Purdue University, W.
Lafayette, Nov. 13, 1994
'Contributions of
Hieroglyphic Luvian to Indo-European Studies,' Il geroglifico anatolico,
Istituto Universitario Orientale
di Napoli, Naples, Italy, June 5, 1995
'Two Problems of
Anatolian Nominal Derivation,' Fourteenth East Coast Indo-European Conference,
Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, July 2, 1995
'Hittite arku-
"sing" vs. arkuwāi- "make a plea",' Fifteenth
East Coast Indo-European Conference, Yale University, New
Haven, CT, June 13, 1996
'Aspects of Verbal
Aspect in Hittite,' Third International Congress of Hittitology, Çorum, Turkey,
September 21, 1996
'Hittite hutanu-:
moat or building excavation?' American Society of Oriental Research
Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
LA, November 24, 1996
'Tarhuntassa in the
Südburg Hieroglyphic Inscription,' American Oriental Society Annual Meeting,
Miami, FL,
March 23, 1997
'Remarks on the Temporal/Aspectual
Value of the Hittite Serial Verb Construction,' Sixteenth East Coast
Indo-European Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June
12, 1997
'Carian mdoΩun "we
have established",' Tagung über die karisch-griechische Bilingue aus
Kaunos, Feusisberg,
Switzerland, November 1, 1997
'The Dialectal Position
of Anatolian within Indo-European,' (invited lecture) Berkeley Linguistics
Society 24 Special
Session, Berkeley, CA, February 14, 1998
'Traces of PIE Aspect in
Anatolian?,' Seventh Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic
Reconstruction,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 28, 1998
'Hittite tuk(kan)zi-
"cultivation, breeding",' 204th Meeting of the American Oriental Society,
New Orleans, LA, April 5,
1998
'A Tangled Web We
Weave,' Seventeenth East Coast Indo-European Conference, University of North
Carolina,
Chapel Hill NC, May 31, 1998
'Hittite Nominal Stems
in -il,' Kolloquium Anatolisch-Indogermanisch, Pavia, Italy, September
24, 1998
'Hittite damnaššara-
"domestic",' 205th Meeting of the American Oriental Society,
Baltimore MD, March 21, 1999
'Hieroglyphic Luvian REL-ipa
"indeed, certainly",' Eighteenth East Coast Indo-European
Conference, University of
Texas, Austin TX, May 30, 1999
'A Hittite Fertility
Rite?' IV. Internationaler Kongress für Hethitologie, Würzburg, Germany,
October 6, 1999
'The Dialectal Position
of Lycian and Lydian within Anatolian,' Convegno Internazionale "Licia e
Lidia prima
dell'Ellenizzazione", Rome, Italy, October 12, 1999
'Critical Response to
Papers by Finkelberg, Ivanov, Lehrman, and Darden,' Colloquium Greater Anatolia
and the
Indo-Hittite Language Family, Richmond, VA, March 19, 2000
'The Feminine Gender in
Anatolian Revisited,' Nineteenth East Coast Indo-European Conference,
University of
Georgia, Athens GA, June 4, 2000
'The Problem of Luvian
Influence on Hittite: When and How Much?' XI. Fachtagung der
indogermanischen
Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany, September 22, 2000
'The Inflection of Some
Irregular Luvian Neuter Nouns,' Twentieth East Coast Indo-European Conference,
Cornell
University, Ithaca NY, June 2, 2001
'Hittite Nominal Stems
in -anzan-,' Arbeitstagung "Indogermanisches Nomen",
Universität Freiburg, Freiburg,
Germany, September 21, 2001
'"Topicalization"
and "Focus" in Hittite,' Journées de typologie "Accentuation
syntaxique et thématisation", Paris,
France, June 27, 2002
'PIE "thorn"
in Cuneiform Luvian?', 14th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, UCLA, Los
Angeles CA,
November 9, 2002
'Latin īnsolēscō,
Hittite šulle(šš)-, and PIE Statives in -ē-,'
Colloquia Classica et Indogermanica VII in memoriam
I. M. Tronsky, Institute of Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences,
St. Petersburg, Russia
June 16, 2003
'Indo-European Verbal Art in
Luvian,' Colloque "Langue poétique indo-européenne", École Pratique
des Hautes
Études, Paris, France, October 22, 2003
'Genitive and Possessive
Adjective in Anatolian', Twenty-third East Coast Indo-European Conference.
Virginia
Polytechnic University, Blacksburg VA, May 26, 2004
'Greek mólybdos as a
Loanword from Lydian,' Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient
Anatolia, Emory
University, Atlanta GA, September 18, 2004
'Hittite hi-verbs from
Adverbs,' XII. Fachtagung der indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Kraków, Poland,
October 11, 2004
'Problems in Hittite
Pronominal Inflection,' Conference on Indo-European Languages and Linguistics
(Twenty-Fourth East
Coast Indo-European Conference), University of California, Berkeley CA, June 2,
2005
'Middle Hittite Revisited,'
Sixth International Congress of Hittitology, Università degli Studi di Roma
"La Sapienza",
Rome, Italy, September 5, 2005
'Mycenaean and Hittite Diplomatic Correspondence: Fact and
Fiction,' Mycenaeans and Anatolians in the Late Bronze Age:
The Ahhijawa Question,
'On the Phonetics of the PIE "laryngeals",'
Eleventh Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction,
'Hittite
duwān (parā),' Twenty-Fifth
East Coast Indo-European Conference,
June 21, 2006
'Further
Thoughts on Carian Nominal Inflection,' The First International Conference on
Hellenistic Karia,
June 30, 2006
Invited lectures and lecture series for professional audiences:
'Anatolian and Beyond,' Ancient Studies
Colloquium: Indo-European Origins, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD,
November 14, 1988
'Recent Developments in
Hieroglyphic Luvian,' Near Eastern Languages Seminar, Yale Univ., New Haven,
CT,
February 26, 1990
'Comparative and
Historical Grammar of Anatolian,' (lecture series) Harvard Univ., Cambridge,
MA, May 13-17, 1991
'l-stem Nominals
in Anatolian,' Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June 15, 1995
'Anatolian Comparative &
Historical Grammar' (lecture series), Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der
Universität Wien,
Vienna, Austria, June 8-23, 1995
'Non-Reflexive Uses of
the Hittite "Reflexive" Particle -z(a),' Department of
Linguistics, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 13, 1998
'The Category of Number
in Hittite and Other Languages of Anatolia,' Oriental Institute, University of
Chicago,
Chicago, IL, November 19, 1998
'Plaiting and
Commingling in Ancient Anatolia and Greece: a Sexual Metaphor?', for
miniseries Linguistic
Reconstruction: Culture and Language in History, University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, November 20, 1998
'Covert Possessive Compounds
in Hittite,' Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, October 14, 1999
'A Hittite Fertility
Rite?', Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, October 14, 1999
'Comparative and
Historical Grammar of Anatolian' (lecture series), Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany, April
10-14, 2000
'The Current Status of
the "Indo-Hittite" Hypothesis,' Universität Köln, Köln, Germany,
April 18, 2000
'Gender and Number in
PIE and Anatolian,' Universität Köln, Köln, Germany, April 19, 2000
'The Category of Number
in PIE, Anatolian and Tocharian,' Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, April 19,
2000
'Comparative and
Historical Grammar of Anatolian' (lecture series), Kyoto University, Kyoto,
Japan, June 28-July 7,
2000
'The Current State of the
"Indo-Hittite" Hypothesis,' Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, July 1,
2000
'Sociolinguistics in the
Hittite Empire. Hittite and Luvian,' University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC, February 16,
2001
'Readings in
Hieroglyphic Luvian of the First Millennium,' Università degli Studi di Roma
"La Sapienza", Rome, Italy,
April 2,9,18,23, 2001
'Introduction to the
Anatolian Languages,' Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza",
Rome, Italy, April 10, 2001
'Problems of Nominal and
Verbal Morphology in the Anatolian Languages,' Università degli Studi di Roma
"La
Sapienza", Rome, Italy, April 18&23, 2001
'Hittite harp(p)-
and Derivatives,' Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, April 26,
2000 and
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, May 3,
2001
'Comparative and
Historical Grammar of Anatolian' (lecture series),
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-
Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, March 11-15, 2002
'Topics in Anatolian
Historical Grammar,' Universität Köln, Cologne, Germany, June 13, 2002
'Introduction to
Luvian,' Universität Köln, Cologne, Germany, June 14, 2002
'Historical and
Comparative Grammar of the Anatolian Languages,' École Pratique des Hautes
Études, Paris,
France, June 17-18, 2002
'Latin īnsolēscō,
Hittite šulle(šš)- and PIE Statives in -ē-,'
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, May 1, 2003
'Sex, Lies, and Clay Tablets:
What the Hittites Have to Tell Us,' Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA,
November 13, 2003
'Fosterage in Lycian and
Luvian Societies,' Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, January
28, 2005 and
University of
California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, March 1, 2006
'Indo-European Linguistics: a
19th-Century Science in the 21st Century,' Collitz Lecture, Summer Institute of
the
Linguistic Society of America, Masachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
MA, July 28, 2005
'Anatolian Local Adverbs from an IE Perspective,'
Public lectures:
'Language and
Prehistory: Who Were the Indo-Europeans and Why Do We Care?' Mensa
Regional Gathering,
Burlington, NC, May 25, 1996
'Chinese Dialects,' part
of UNC-CH University Center for International Studies presentation at
Multicultural Day,
Westlake Middle School, Wake County, November 21, 1997
'Chinese Dialects,'
Chinese Language Seminar, North Carolina School for Science and Math, Durham
NC, March 24,
1998
'Latin and Indo-European,'
Latin Class in Virgil, Chapel Hill Central High School, Chapel Hill NC, October
19, 2005