The precursors of Proto-Indo-European: the Indo-Hittite and Indo-Uralic hypotheses

Book of abstracts. — Leiden University, 2015. — 32 p.From 9 up to and including 11 July 2015 Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) will organize a workshop on the precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Hittite and Indo-Uralic hypotheses.Like any other language, Proto-Indo-European must have had its relatives and precursors. One theory that operates with such a precursor is the Indo-Hittite hypothesis. Its proponents argue that the Anatolian branch occupies such a special place in the Indo-European language family that it must be seen as a sister of Proto-Indo-European rather than as a daughter of it. This implies that Proto-Indo-European and Anatolian derive from an earlier mother language, which tentatively has been called ‘Proto-Indo-Hittite’. Another theory dealing with the prehistory of Proto-Indo-European goes even beyond Indo-Hittite, and argues for a genetic relationship with the Uralic language family, assuming the existence of a so-called ‘Indo-Uralic’ mother language.
This workshop aims at discussing the possibility of reconstructing one or more precursors of Proto-Indo-European, both from an empirical as well as a methodological point of view.Gilles Authier (Paris). Reconstructible typological features of Proto-East Caucasian.
Stefan Bauhaus (Berlin). PIE *-r as a locative case marker.
Harald Bichlmeier (Erlangen). On the history of the question of the existence of a Pre-Indo-European subtratum in Germanic.
Václav Blažek (Brno). Indo-European dendronyms in perspective of external comparison.
Allan Bomhard (Charleston). The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis.
Gerd Carling (Lund). Testing the Indo-Hittite-(Tocharian) hypothesis against various types of data sets: sound change, basic vocabulary, cultural vocabulary, and grammatical typology.
Dag Haug (Oslo) & Andrej Sideltsev (Moscow). Indo-Hittite Syntax?
Paul Heggarty (Leipzig). The Indo-Hittite and Indo-Uralic questions: Perspectives from archaeology, genetics, and Bayesian phylogenetics.
Adam Hyllested (Copenhagen). Indo-Uralic: opinions, methods, and results.
Vyacheslav Ivanov (Los Angeles). Traces of Indo-Uralic or Nostratic in Anatolian.
Petri Kallio (Helsinki). Internal and external evidence for the Pre-PIE conditioned sound change *t > *s.
Simona Klemenčič (Ljubljana). Bojan Čop’s Indo-Uralic hypothesis and its plausibility.
Alwin Kloekhorst (Leiden). The Indo-Hittite hypothesis: methods and arguments.
Frederik Kortlandt (Leiden). Indo-European o-grade presents and the Anatolian hi-conjugation.
Guus Kroonen (Copenhagen). Indo-Uralic lookalike sets, an etymological quick scan.
Martin Kümmel (Jena). Thoughts about Pre-Indo-European stop systems.
Milan Lopuhaä (Leiden/Nijmegen). Prehistory of the Anatolian ‘ergative’.
Alexander Lubotsky (Leiden). The Indo-European suffix *-ens- and its Indo-Uralic origin.
Rosemarie Lühr (Jena). Headedness in Indo-Uralic.
Tom Markey & John Colarusso (Hamilton). Supplementing the Comparative Method: Exaptation and Proto-Indo-European as a Caucasian Language.
Ranko Matasović (Zagreb). Clause alignment in Proto-Indo-European and the Indo-Uralic hypothesis.
Veronika Milanova (Vienna). The Proto-Indo-European kinship terms in *-ter and Anatolian.
Michaël Peyrot (Berlin). Indo-Uralic, Indo-Hittite and Indo-Tocharian.
Georges-Jean Pinault (Paris). About the “distant” relationships of Tocharian.
Roland Pooth (Cologne). Is the “tēzzi principle” a plausible inference?
Kirill Reshetnikov (Moscow). Indo-European and Uralic: separated twins, children from a large family or just stepbrothers?
Elisabeth Rieken (Marburg). More on „Western Affinities” of Anatolian.
Zsolt Simon (Munich). The alleged Proto-Indo-European loanwords in Proto-Uralic.
George Starostin (Moscow). Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Uralic among other proto-languages of Eurasia: a lexicostatistical evaluation.
Michiel de Vaan (Lausanne). Proto-Indo-European *sm and *si ‘one’.
Christoph Wenger (Berlin). Old, Really Old or Really, Really Old – Loan Relations between (P)IE and Uralic.
Mikhail Zhivlov (Moscow). Indo-European laryngeals and their Indo-Uralic and Nostratic precursors.