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, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, January 4, 2006

'On the Phonetics of the PIE "laryngeals",' Eleventh Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction,

      University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, April 8, 2006

'Hittite duwān (parā),' Twenty-Fifth East Coast Indo-European Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus OH,

     June 21, 2006

'Further Thoughts on Carian Nominal Inflection,' The First International Conference on Hellenistic Karia, Oxford, UK,

     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,' University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, March 2, 2006

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

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