tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69624872011-12-13T19:54:51.215-08:00An Austronesian’s Adventures in Altertumswissenschaft and Indogermanistiksauvagenoblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07573601637170576616noreply@blogger.comBlogger3911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6962487.post-67594662801398902032010-01-30T18:23:00.000-08:002010-01-30T20:03:20.769-08:00

Rogueclassicist (30 January 2010) points to a blog post on seattle pi (25 January 2010 12:06 a.m.) on an exhibit of portraits of writers, one of whom is John Milton:Milton wasn’t so fond of the engraver William Marshall’s result, as evidenced by the subscribed four lines of Greek in iambic trimeter, which I attempt to render in English in iambic pentameter:Ἀμαθεῖ γεγράφθαι χειρὶ τὴνδε μ̣ὲ̣ν̣

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... quod contrā saepius illareligiō peperit scelerōsa atque impia facta.But ’tis that same religion oftener farHath bred the foul impieties of men;—William Ellery Leonard, trans.

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“Septem diebus, praeferamus spem metui, concordiam disiunctioni, mutationem promissam perstanti statui rerum. Septem diebus, una conveniamus una res publica, unusque populus, et iterum malimus meliora de nobis narretur”—B. Obama, 27 October 2008, Canton, Ohio.

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As reported previously, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, in addition to availability on line and via listserv, is now available via RSS feed at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.xml. However, the links to the on-line articles are incorrectly coded. E.g., the feed points to my fellow alumnus’s review of Faraone 2008 at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008.08.30 but should point to http://

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Via rogueclassicism, the newest issues of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review will now be available via RSS feed at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.xml. I used to be a subscriber to the listserv, but I quickly tired of the spam and irate unsubscribe reply-alls. The RSS feed, which nicely contains books’ full titles and bibliographic information, is a vastly superior method of delivery.

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The Classics and Archaeology Department at Loyola Marymount held its 2nd Annual Classics and Archaeology Symposium and published video + audio recordings on iTunesU. Among the faculty and undergraduate presenters, I am especially fond and proud of Dr. Matthew Dillon, my metrical father, who won an APA Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics in 2006, and Stephen Blair, an extremely

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Enthusiasts and professionals of the Latin language, as well as politicos and journalists, are abuzz about a piece of verbal art on the person of Ms. Ashley Dupre, the meretrix of former Governor of New York, Mr. Eliot Spitzer. Attention has focused on translating the phrase, “Tutela valui” (cf. rogueclassicism, 12 June 2008, 4:57 a.m., and Campus Mawrtius, 13 June 2008, 8:47 and 8:51 a.m.).With

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Or, “when a student of linguistic structures in poetry reads prose”. So, I’m teaching letters of Cicero and Pliny the Younger this quarter, and I was struck by the final sentence of Pliny 1.6.3:I’m not sure whether this has been pointed out before (tacet Sherwin-White ad loc.), but .... First, note the word order. The indirect statement opens with the negative adverb nōn that modifies inerrāre,

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My friend and colleague Mary-Kay Gamel has written Helen of Egypt, an adaptation of Euripides’ Helen for the modern stage. It runs Friday–Sunday, 29 February–2 March, and Thursday–Sunday, 6–9 March. Shows are at 7:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. on Sundays) at the Mainstage Theater on the UCSC campus. The Saturday shows on 1 and 8 March will be followed by talk-backs. Tickets are available on line at

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We were just in Chicago, but we must now think of Philadelphia:GREEK AND LATIN LINGUISTICSSponsored by The Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics; Jeremy Rau, Harvard University and Benjamin W. Fortson, University of MichiganThe Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics solicits submission of abstracts for its panel session at the Philadelphia

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Available on line is a stream [slides + audio] of a recent UCSC Physics colloquium given by Uwe Bergmann (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), titled “Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin: Archimedes’ Oldest Writings uncovered with X-ray Vision”. Abstract:Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC) is considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of all times. The

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Thursday, 3 January 2008. Check in. I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by Prof. Helma Dik, a Classical linguist at UChicago. Of course, I was but a database entry to her, but I wasn’t expecting faculty to be helping with such tasks as conference registration.Besides hitting the Placement Service and book exhibit—where I scored hardcover copies of Colvin’s Historical Greek Reader and

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A report on my experience of the APA’s annual meeting in Chicago is in preparation. Alibi:Day 0: Thursday, 3 January“APA Pre-game” and “APA: Opening Salvo”, WM BlathersDay 1: Friday, 4 January“AIA/APA Chicago Report no. 1” and “AIA/APA Chicago Report no. 2”, Tria Cordia“APA Friday, Jan 4th — Oh, the hand-outs”, WM BlathersDay 2: Saturday, 5 January“AIA/APA Chicago Report no. 3”, Tria Corda“ APA

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’Tis the season to be ... preparing for the annual meeting. Members will have gotten the final program (a PDF is on line; cf. electronic abstracts) in the mail today, and, as Danno notes, the AIA’s Annual Meeting Custom Schedule Tool is now also available.Here’re the talks I’d be interested in hearing, whether for my own interests or in moral support of past and present colleagues:Thursday, 3

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One of my Latin 1 students showed me Harry Mount’s OpEd in the New York Times before class today, and I was gratified by the attention to the subject in the popular press, as well as my student’s enthusiasm for it. But happening upon a Mawrticampian post, I just found out about the Latin version.I must say of (I assume) Mr. Mount’s Latin: vae mē! Behold, the first paragraph:Primum, duces nostros

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... are up at institutions of higher learning in the last four years, according to the Modern Language Association’s recent survey [PDFs]:Fall 1998, 2002 and 2006 Language Enrollments at U.S. Colleges2006 Ranking and Language19982002% Change ’98–’022006% Change ’02–’068. Latin26,14529,841+14.1%32,191+7.9%11. Ancient Greek16,40220,376+24.2%22,849+12.1%Though the growth rate is not as high as

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Heartfelt to Classicist Ralph Hexter, President of Hampshire College, and Mr. Manfred Kollmeier, as well as to their family, on recently doing something they “could only do in Massachusetts” (Scott Jaschik, “A Gay President Says ‘I Do’”, Inside Higher Ed 19 September 2007).

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With condolences to their families and friends, I pass along notice (via LINGUISTList 18.2306) of the passing of Profs. Carol Justus and Winfred Lehmann, emeritus, of the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Justus coordinated the extensive Indo-European Documentation Center, and Prof. Lehmann’s works remain useful for students of Indo-European.

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Congratulations to my UCLA Classics colleagues, Lorenzo Garcia and Chris Eckerman, who were hooded a couple of weeks ago.I would’ve been there with you, but I had to go to a conference. But I was there in spirit via webcast. May our paths cross again and soon! (APA 2008 in Chicago? When and where, by the way, the LSA is meeting.)I also want to wish Prof. Michael Haslam all the best in emeritude.

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Check out iTunes U, a new section of Apple’s iTunes Store, where audio (and video) of university lectures are available for free. Lo, some Classics offerings!On the language side, take Elementary Greek from James Voelz (Concordia Seminary). iTunes U has audio, video, and “Pronunciation Helps”.Hear about ancient Mediterranean history from Owen Ewald (Seattle Pacific University). Two lectures are

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Our friend and colleague, Joe Eska, is safe. As is now known, the shooter majored in English, Joe’s home department. I caught sight of Joe being interviewed on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Here’s a snippet of the podcasted version of Ray Suarez’s report [MP3]: Joe and a colleague are being interviewed about the shooter, and you can hear Joe’s voice briefly at the start, responding to the first

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While I’m relieved to report that two friends and colleagues who teach at Virginia Tech are safe, my mind and heart stir nonetheless for them and everyone else there. A number—if not all—of us, especially those at large public universities, have been shaken.Today was a difficult day to teach, especially if what you assigned for class was this:[485] heu, terrā ignōtā canibus date praeda

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(In honor of Stephen Carlson.) I recently happened upon the History Channel’s “Banned from the Bible” while channel-surfing. It made me curious about apocrypha. Googling turned up the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. My eyes then lighted on Philo the Epic Poet, whose work survives in a few fragments quoted by Eusebius (9:20.1–2, 24.1, 37.1–3). Lo, hexameters! though the OCP lays the text out as if

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Upcoming, a workshop I’ve been helping put together, at which I’m also presenting:

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Quantitative, but in English:If I sit here in | my chair and think of a futurewhich I may not have, | what have I of the present?In transcription, with syllable boundaries:/ɪf . a͡ɪ . sɪt . hi͡ɪ.ɹ ɪn . ma͡ɪ . t͡ʃɛɹ . ənd . θɪŋk . ə.v ə . fju͡ʊ.t͡ʃɹ̩wɪt͡ʃ . a͡ɪ . me͡ɪ . nɑt . hæv . wʌt . hæ.v a.ɪ əv . ðə . prɛ.zənt/I wrote this as a model for my students for their own composition assignment (

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Circle of life on the front lawn yesterday:(Full size on Flickr.)

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I haven’t yet recovered from San Diego, but it’s already time to think about Chicago! From Prof. Rau:GREEK AND LATIN LINGUISTICSSponsored by The Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics;Jeremy Rau, Harvard Universityand Benjamin W. Fortson, University of MichiganThe Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics solicits submission of abstracts for

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A message on the impending closure of Indology in Berlin:[A]s you might have heard, Indological studies in Berlin are in danger of being closed down. Prof. Michael Witzel is currently organising a letter campaign to relevant authorities in an attempt to prevent this from happening. Everyone is very much invited to join this campaign! Below is Witzel's own sample letter, from which you can choose

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As of today, 267 e-abstracts are available for the upcoming 2007 Annual Meeting in San Diego (more and more e-abstracts have become available in the last five years, with a marked increase from 2003 to 2004: 247 in 2006 (Montréal); 230 in 2005 (Boston); 220 in 2004 (San Francisco); 131 in 2003 (New Orleans); 109 in 2002 (Philadelphia)). A quick skim brings these to SN’s attention, among several

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A sequel to the first conference on “Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective” at Cambridge in 2005 (cf. “LSA 3.2”, SN 12 July 2005, 2:54 p.m.) will take place in Oslo in July 2007. See the announcement/call for papers.

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A guilty pleasure: watching ... popular programs. I happened upon reruns of “Beauty and the Geek 2” on MTV. Lo, a former student of mine is one of the geeks! Congratulations, Tyson! Cf.:youtube clipWikipedia article on “Beauty and the Geek”Tara Merrin, “Hip to be square” (Calgary Sun 12 January 2006)Tyson on:WikipediaIMDB!!!

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At least 12 years ago: linguistics (#4: UCLA) and classics (# 13: UCLA).

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Blue is a little bluer, and green is a little greener. I can hold my head up, and my shoulders feel lighter! Just a quick post, long overdue—after an intensely disadventurous summer—before new busyness goes into full swing.Tuesday, 12 SeptemberAround 1:00 p.m., at the recommendation of a colleague, I stopped by the Thesis Advisor’s office in the library to obtain “pre-approval” of my dissertation

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A brief reply to Laudator Temporis Acti on the formation of agent nouns in Latin: †videtor is not possible, for -tōr- m. is essentially suffixed to the perfect passive participle stem, formed the same way as the supine (Leumann § 319), so *vīsor (unatttested, historically *vid-t-). Compare victor but not †vincitor. So also monitor, †monetor.

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The OUP people are busy! Again via LINGUIST List 17.2213:Ringe, Donald. 2006 [forthcoming]. A History of English, Volume I: From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [hardback]Sure to be a great series!

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Via LINGUIST List 17.2207:Mallory, J. P., and D. Q. Adams. 2006 [forthcoming]. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and The Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [hardback; paperback]Chapter 9 “Indo-European Fauna” (pp.133–155) is available as a PDF (required proxy server login for me). A quick skim of which reveals that they use a four-laryngeal system for PIE,

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Usually refers to hexameters, but mucking around in fragmenta turned up Naevius, fragment 27 (trochaic septenarius) from an unknown comedy (Warmington p.146, with his translation):līberā linguā loquēmur | lūdīs Līberālibus– ⋃ –⋮– –⋮⋃ – – | – –⋮– ⋃ – ⋃ –At Liber’s Games we’ll talk with tongues at liberty.Just lovely. Syntactically: adjective₁ + noun₁ + verb + noun₂ + adjective₂. Phonologically,

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In Plautus, Bacchides 892–895 Lindsay (= Leo apud Perseus; trans. Riley apud Perseus), in iambic senarii:... :: ita mē Iuppiter, Iūnō, CerēsMinerva, Lātō, Spēs, Opis, Virtūs, VenusCastor Pollūcēs, Mārs, Mercurius, Herculēs,Summānus, Sōl, Sāturnus dīque‿omnēs amentIn Ennius, Annales 240–241 Skutsch, in hexameters:Iūnō Vesta Minerva Cerēs Dīāna Venus MārsMercurius Ioviˢ Neptūnus Volcānus Apollō(In

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Those with the luxury of sleep but the leisure of insomnia can entertain themselves with the handout and text of my talk on South Picene, my favorite Sabellian language. I’m off to Columbus, OH, in a couple of days for the East Coast Indo-European Conference (my first time!). I’ll do my best to write précises of the papers post reditum starting next weekend.[UPDATE: Good conference. Paper was

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Just arrived in the mail today, after ordering it a while ago. I saw it on Michael Weiss’s desk and had to have it:Cupaiuolo, Fabio. 1995. Bibliografia della metrica latina. Studi Latini 15. Naples: Loffredo.222 pages of annotated bibliography. Get it via Abebooks.

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Here’s an idea that didn’t get past my professors. I may do the philological digging at some point—which is like moving mountain!—so I’m not sure if this has already been thought of. But I thought it was pretty cool, so here you go.Fragment 18 of the Andronicus, Odysseia, is the longest fragment we have of the Saturnian translation/paraphrase of the Homer. It reads:namque nullum peius || mācerat

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Found while mucking around in fragments, one by Albinus (3rd c. CE), quoted by Marius Victorinus, on the hexameter cadence (fr. 2, Blänsdorf 1995: 377–378):vītēs spondēō tōtum conclūdere versum:posse 〈putā〉 fierī, iungēs sī dactylum aptē.avoid ending every verse with a spondee:〈consider〉 it can be done, (only) if you properly join (it with) a dactyl.(Never mind the hiatus in the second line,

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The fourth monthly Carnival of Blog Translation has come to a close. I am aware of three participants:Gabriele Campbell“Carnival of Blog Translation (May 06)”The Lost Fort (29 May 2006, 11:59 p.m.)—Gabriele translates the poem “Am grauen Strand” by Theodor Storm (1817–1888) from German to English.Liz Henry“Bossa Nova, Northern Soul, Boobs, and Comics”blogher (24 May 2006, 5:34 p.m.)—Liz

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Languagehat, “Coil!” (27 May 2006, 6:57 p.m.), from English to Latin:Etymologiae autem solent esse sobriae; quae, utrum eae sint longi catalogi formarum priscarum cognatorumque an eis breve originem esse incertam dicatur, sunt vacuae animo, lepore, punctis exclamationis. Immo vero in OED ea de coil2 “clamore, turba; tumultu, festinatione”:[Primo saec. XVI: originis incertae. Fort. verbum sermonis

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Had an absolutely lovely time at UCSC. I spent a day on campus, sitting in on graduate phonology where Lev Blumenfeld guest-taught, presenting on his dissertation (on the “too many solutions” problem in OT). Got a tour of campus and met a bunch of nice people.My talk was well attended and favorably received. I had never before presented to an audience of mostly theoretical linguists—there were

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Jack Mitchell, “A New Translation of Sappho 58”, Philolog: Classical Connections—Commentary and Critique 23 May 2006, 11:30 a.m., offers an alternative colometry and translation of Sappho 58. Jack is a Classics grad at Stanford, and his blog of nine months covers such topics as art/architecture, literature, philosophy, science, religion, pedagogy, and poetics.By the way, Calvert Watkins is

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So I’m giving a talk at UC Santa Cruz next Friday. I don’t feel worthy of this lovely flyer, created by Prof. Armin Mester:(click on the JPG for the full-size PDF)The text of the abstract is on my UCLA website (TXT). As you can surmise, I unveil my near-final Saturnian theory for the Santa Cruz linguists and Classicists to get a first crack at. Handout will go on my UCLA page as soon as I finish

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Dennis of Campus Mawrtius ponders a reader’s request for a proper Latin translation of “Is nothing sacred?” from Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, where it was regrettably rendered as “Nihilo sanctum estne” (I can’t recall the context: asked by Ms. Cross of Max Fischer after a particularly offensive stunt?). Dennis considers “Nihilne sanctum (est)?” for a literal rendering and the expletive “Mehercle!”

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I was flipping through Courtney’s Musa Lapidaria and came upon some funerary inscriptions for pets!:CIL X 659 (= Courtney no.203**; Salerno), in elegiac couplets:Portāvī lacrimīs madidus tē, nostra catella,     quod fēcī lustrīs laetior ante tribus.ergō mihi, Patricē, iam nōn dabis ōscula mīlle     nec poteris collō grāta cubāre meō.tristis marmoreā posuī tē sēde merentem          [5]     et

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One of my fellow dissertators Jay Kumar has carved out a niche as a linguistically informed yogi and runs Living Your Light, “an organization dedicated to promote Creative Conscious Living for the planet and for those of you who are committed to your spiritual journey and connection to your Higher Truth”. I was surfing the website recently and noticed it was redone. I found several resources now

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Give meme fever! Well, I got tagged by Clint Hagen with the “Me, too, Meme” by name—no, I’m “not too ‘professional’ for this kind of thing”—and King Alfred tagged everyone who read his “Four Things” meme. Herewith:ME, TOOI AM: a grad student.I WANT: a tenure-track job to redeem my long, expensive education.I WISH: for a tenure-track job.I HATE: that I don’t have a tenure-track job lined up as I

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As King Alfred of The Bitter Scroll has announced, the fourth monthly Carnival of Blog Translation will be hosted apud SN! Readers are invited to spread the word and begin contemplating submissions.DetailsParticipants are invited to translate any blog entry of their own or another’s from May 2006, on any topic from any language to any other language (natural languages are assumed, though I

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A modest offering (or two) for this month’s Carnival of Blog Translation apud The Bitter Scroll:Original in EnglishLaudator Temporis Acti, “Birth of a Curmudgeon” (5:20 a.m., 28 April 2006):Dennis Lehane, Sacred (1977), chapter 1:“When you were born,” she said, “I bet your father held you up to your mother and said, ‘Look, hon, you just gave birth to a beautiful crabby old man.’”LatineLaudator

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The legacy of Jochem Schindler lives on through his students in numerous ways. A small one is the Round Table which, as I understand it, Schindler imported from Vienna to Harvard, and Harvard alumni who studied with him and are now established and active in the field have brought it to their own universities. The Round Table is an intimate informal gathering of professors and students interested

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In the mail yesterday: 639 pages of Latin-syntactic goodness in A. M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens, Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). (Perpetual APA discount doesn’t apply, and I couldn’t wait.) You may remember Devine & Stephens from such works as Language and Metre: Resolution, Porson’s Bridge, and Their Prosodic Basis and

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A while ago, I wrote about translating Hamlet III.64ff, the famous soliloquy, into ancient Greek. A commenter wondered, “if [I] were suitably rewarded or challenged”, whether I might have ”the Prince of Denmark dithering in PIE”. Well, behold, the product of inter-chapter procrastinatory efforts, an ambitious but, to be sure, sophomoric effort. I’m certain it’s rife with errors (let which not

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The underlying representation /diss. ch.n/ has seven surface forms in free variation: [diss. ch.1], [diss. ch.2], [diss. ch.3], [diss. ch.4], [diss. ch.5], [diss. ch.6], [diss. ch.7]. Four constraints govern their occurrence:PassChairA dissertation chapter /diss. ch.n/ must be approved by the dissertation advisor for it to surface as [diss. ch.n].WriteChA dissertation chapter /diss. ch.n/ must be

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I am sad to report that Mark Southern, Indo-Europeanist with interests in Classics and Germanic, recently passed away. Mark was only 45.I first became aware of his unexpected death through Googlings this way, confirmed by colleagues; further Googling turned up a Wikipedia article on Mark, which mentions his death, and an obituary is now on line at Addision Independent (PDF of the HTML from today

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The Harvard talk went fine. I had a nice audience, intimate from spring break. Seemed to have been well received. Had good discussion afterwards in Q&A on the epigraphy of AP 2, my current take on the Saturnian, if I see a historical relationship underlying the Italic data, and, if so, how I would take them back to the Indo-European Urvers (the talk itself is soon to be my dissertation ch.7, and

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Further on Academic Blogging RecommendationsIn response to the guidelines recently proposed, Rogueclassicist adds that the academic blogger should have a pre-/non-blog life to begin with and should adhere to a regular publishing schedule. As Laudator Temporis Acti notes, the autobiography can indeed be enjoyable to read, and gives added dimension to the blogger (I myself construe my guideline

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Via the ARLT blog:“Sappho, the Tenth Muse”Open Bookpresented by Mariella Frostrup; produced by Nicola HollowayBBC Radio 4, Sunday, 19 March 2006, 16:30[HTML ; HTML with embedded RAM ; RAM apud BBC vel SN]“Poet Jackie Kay travels to Oxford on the trail of the Ancient Greek poet described by Plato as the Tenth Muse, Sappho of Lesbos.”Kay talks to Drs. Margaret Reynolds (on the physical nature of

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Chris Sundita wrote recently about one etymology for the slang/hypocoristic ethnonym Pinoy/Pinay:Guillermo Gómez y Rivera [...] a retired(?) educator in the Philippines, originally from Iloilo [who] was involved somehow [in] the constitutional convention of 1973 and [has] been a very passionate advocate of reviving the Spanish language in Philippines [...] urges Filipinos to stop using [Pinoy]

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I’m sorry to see that Lady Bane will soon be quitting her Demesne. She cites professional concerns and the need to lead a less virtual personal life. I encourage her to consider a compromise solution. (See, with references: Marcus O’Donnell, “Why academics blog”, marcusodonnell.com: blogsperiment [8:47 a.m., 15 October 2004], and “Academic blogging”, op. cit. [10:36 a.m., 28 November 2004];

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I heartily thank the respondents for contributing their thoughts on the recent NLTRW carnival themes (cf. an independent effort by Mark A. Keith, 10:21 p.m., 10 March 2006, “National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week 2006”, pro linguae Latinae magistris). After intense work on an upcoming presentation, I’ve finally been able to incorporate the responses that came in after my day 5 post:“NLTRW Day 1:

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A while ago, Ryan Overbey, blogging Buddhologist from Harvard, wrote about OPML and its potential academic implementations:3:44 p.m., 31 July 2005. “OPML for Mac released”. Ryan’s Lair: Adventures in Buddhology.7:07 p.m., 30 August 2005. “Jim Moore gets it”. Ryan’s Lair: Adventures in Buddhology.These since got me thinking on and off about implementing XML feeds in the publicizing of individual

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On this the last day of National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week, we turn our attention to our own promotion efforts.Consider your view of the future of the discipline, based on how you see its present state, and your place in it. How would you promote/have you promoted the study of Greek/Latin/Classics in your professional and non-professional spheres?I realize now that I conflated the promotion

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Prof. Vyacheslav Ivanov, through a classmate, alerts us to Ullikummi, a set of four TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows, which encodes the entire inventory of Hittite cuneiform signs (369 cardinal signs + variants and numerals!). Comes with a handy Word DOT file that lets you auto-insert:Much better and a little faster than handwriting and scanning. These will eventually be incorporated into

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National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week enters its penultimate day, and the carnival theme turns to the question of utility.How has training in Greek/Latin/Classics been of use and value to your professional and/or non-professional life?I find this question easier in the asking than in the answering. The utility and value of Greek/Latin/Classics training in my professional life are obvious, for I

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It’s day 3 of National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week. Today’s carnival theme:Discuss a memory or memories of something(s) cool you taught in a Greek/Latin/Classics class.It has to be from my Latin 3 class in spring quarter 2002 at UCLA. 9 May, to be exact, when I taught Catullus 8 (we were using Amor et Amicitia while finishing up with Wheelock). Each assigned reading was accompanied by a

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National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week continues, as does our carnival.Discuss a memory or memories of something(s) cool you learned in a Greek/Latin/Classics class.The coolest thing I remember learning comes from outside class. LMU Classics has for years put on a Dionysian Festival every March, which features recitations, skits, games, Greek food, music, and dancing. My freshman year, I decided

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(This is too funny, at least to me and a friend, to postpone to after NLTRW.) I was talking to a friend over the phone recently, and she was telling me about a conference she was to present at in Missouri. When she told me the title of the conference, which I heard as “Herbs and Roots”, I thought to myself, “Huh. Well, I guess she found something to present that somehow relates to ... botany in

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It’s the first day of National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week. Join the carnival!How did you get started in Greek/Latin/Classics? What influenced you to pursue more than one course?Now that I think about my history, I was attracted to Latin before high school began. However, at my mother’s recommendation, for practicality’s sake I elected to take Spanish instead of Latin in high school (the third

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We kick off our National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week carnival, set to begin tomorrow (see the post of 21 February for the particulars), with a contemplation on a basic question: why?Why promote the learning of Latin (and/or Greek and/or Classics)?Numerous testimonia are gathered on PromoteLatin.org’s “Why Study Latin?” page. These are framed in terms of direct and indirect benefits. The study

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I was in New York for a few days to visit friends. My first time in the city. We spent a few hours Saturday afternoon among mostly the Egyptian, Greek, and Near-Eastern antiquities at the Met. I took a few pictures:made with flagrantdisregard’s Mosaic MakerKey:Greek Funerary Sculpture IIGreek Funerary Sculpture IInscription (Photoshopped)InscriptionGreek Stele II: Upper HalfGreek Stele I: Base (

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Forwarded from Prof. Bernard Comrie (Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), 29 January 2006:Language and Genes (Santa Barbara, September 8–10)The University of California Santa Barbara will be hosting an inter-disciplinary conference “Languages and Genes” on September 8–10, 2006, which will bring together leading international specialists in the areas of

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Rogueclassicist is on board, and colleagues from the UK have also taken note. See the foregoing post.

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Prof. Jenny Strauss Clay (Virginia), President of the APA, writes to the membership in an e-mail:National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week (March 6–10, 2006) is coming up. The APA, the American Classical League, and regional classical associations all join in sponsoring this critical initiative to strengthen the teaching of Latin nation-wide at the K–12 level. We are facing a scarcity of Latin

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It tends to be Latin-heavy here at SN. Chris having commented on the foregoing post, I was brought down memory lane to my days ... my unhappy days ... in Greek Prose Comp class. Each assignment was basically “Guess how Denniston would translate this (e.g., Bronte, Churchill) into Greek”. Weekly class consisted of three hours of belittlingly being told what we did wrong. (Hello? How about

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Here’s a Latin prose composition assignment. Render the following sentences:When I told the dean’s secretary what I was after, her voice closed up like a fat-laden artery and she said she’d get back to me. Hanging up without getting my number, I phoned Milo again.Jonathan Kellerman, The Clinic (Bantam 1997): 23Prof. Geoff Pullum doesn’t like the last sentence. But it struck me as perfectly fine

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Or, everything you ever wanted to know about the ancient (and modern?!) Indo-European word but were afraid to ask. Buddhologist Ryan Overbey reports on the appearance of:Heidermanns, Frank. 2005 . Bibliographie zur indogermanischen Wortforschung: Wortbildung, Etymologie, Onomasiologie und Lehnwortschichten der alten und modernen indogermanischen Sprachen in systematischen Publikationen ab 1800.

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So I’m filling in my language skills on my profile for this on-line teacher placement service, and I realize the pulldown menu o’ languages has some interesting items. For example, one can claim up to native speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in Aramaic and Avestan:Etruscan, Gaulish, and Gothic:Hittite, Indo-European—yes, Indo-European!—and Interlingua:Klingon—that’s two made-up languages

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In surfings and searchings, I came across a poem by Marcius Vates:Aquam Albānam, Rōmāne, cause lacū tenērī,cavē in mare mānāre flūmine sinās suō.ēmissam agrīs rigābis, dissipātam rīvīsextinguēs: tum tū īnsiste mūrīs hostium audax,memor, quam per tot annōs obsidēs urbem,ex eā tibi hīs quae iam nunc panduntur fātīsvictōriam oblātam. bellō perfectōdōnum peramplum victor ad mea templaportātō: patria

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Oh, King Alfred tagged me. Herewith, but keeping my answers as professional as I can:Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so.JeniAnastasiaHaligweorcKing Alfredsauvage nobleNext select five people to tag.Hmm ... those who I think to be unopposed to memes on their blogs:David RomanoHouse of Hagenilani

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Not one, but two summer elementary Sanskrit programs:Sanskrit InstituteUniversity of New Mexico, AlbuquerqueJune–July 2006Elementary level(via LINGUIST List 17.272)South Asia Summer Language InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison19 June–11 August 2006Elementary and intermediate levels(I lost track of how I found out about this)In addition to advanced historical phonology with Prof. Lubotsky at

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With the friends and families of ProfessorsGiuliano Bonfante(6 August 1904–9 September 2005)1,known to me for his work on Etruscan,Vladimir Nikolaevič Toporov(5 July 1928–5 December 2005)2,a long-time collaborator of Prof. Vyacheslav Ivanov, andPeter Ladefoged(1925–January 2006)3,phonetician, a wonderful man,I join in mourning.1 LINGUIST List 17.240; TITUS Necrologiae. Photo taken and modified

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From last night’s Bones:Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin)Bones: “The Woman at the Airport”(grabbed from the photo galleries, used without permission)Goodman, Zack and Brennan examine body remains, possibly from the Iron Age, 1500 years old. Is this the finest Iron Age specimen ever found, or inauthentic? [...] Goodman theorizes on the life of the Iron Age man. He fought in battle, had good

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Pg 10, an Oscan funerary lapis from Corfinium:|1 pes. pros. ecuf. incubat|2 casnar. oisa. aetate|3 c. anaes.solois. des. forte(s) |4 faberLatin:‘Pius, probus hīc iacetsenex, ūsā aetāte,C. ?Annaeus.Quibusque deus fortūnae faber.’English:‘A dutiful, righteous old manlies here, life having been enjoyed,G(aius) Annaeus.For each is god the fashioner of fortune.’(Cf. Rix’s edition [2002: 73].)

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The “A–Z Meme” apud House of Hagen reminds me of Oscan Alphabetarien (boldface Roman transcribes Etruscoid script; all taken from Rix’s edition):Fr 13Bronze cylinder, Casalbordino:a b g d v z ḥ [i] kAside from 〈a〉, all the letters are/can be consonantal, without regard for voicing. [UPDATE: See now “Catapult from Casalbordino”, Tria Corda. 8:15 a.m., 25 January 2006.]Po 93Wall graffiti, Pompeii:

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“Est autem carmen huius modī quō dī ēvocantur cum oppugnātiōne cīvitās cingitur” ‘Moreover, there is a prayer in this way whereby gods are called out when a state is surrounded by a siege’:Macrob. Sat. 3.9.7–8sī deus, sī dea est,cuī populus cīvitāsqueCarthāginiēnsis est in tūtēlā,tēque maximē,ille quī urbis huiuspopulīque tūtēlam recēpistī,precor venerorque veniamque ā vōbīs petō:ut vōs populum

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We’ve just been informed of three summer study opportunities:Leiden Summer School in Indo-European Linguistics31 July–11 August 2006Leiden University, Faculty of Arts[webpage in preparation]IntroductoryIntroduction to Tocharian (G.-J. Pinault, Paris)Introduction to Mycenaean (J. L. García Ramón, Köln)Introduction to Old Prussian (R. H. Derksen, Leiden)Introduction to PIE Phonology and Morphology

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The call for papers:Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics;Benjamin W. Fortson, University of Michigan and Jeremy Rau, Harvard UniversityThe Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics solicits submission of abstracts for its panel session at the San Diego meeting of the American Philological Association in 2007. Papers treating

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Dimanche le 8 janvier.Hung out with former classmate Sean Easton.Today I bounced around from one panel to another.Miles Beckwith (Iona)“Twenty-First Century Linguistics, Pedagogy and the Classical Languages” [abstract]Section 69—PedagogyMiles discussed theoretical and applied approaches to teaching Latin, drawing the distinction between language acquisition and language learning. There is a

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Samedi le 7 janvier.Cold morning with clear blue skyOcre FisieI forgot to mention yesterday that Danno Trium Cordum was in Montreal, and I hope he blogs the meeting so we can read his perspective on the talks we both heard and the others he went to.I am touched that he remembered me in Italy and brought back a little piece of it for me: a pebble from the Fisian Mount!Joint AIA/APA Annual Meeting

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Vendredi le 6 janvier.Section 5—LinguisticsRoger Woodard (Buffalo), PresiderThe panel was a mix of historical/comparative/IE linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax/semantics, and discourse/pragmatics.Mark R. V. Southern (Middlebury)“Mapping Roman Communities, Servants and Households, and Rethinking Inherited Italic Social Praxis: populus (Etruscan pupluna) and Cocles, famulus, and familia” [

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Jeudi le 5 janvier.ΔυσαστερίσκοιSo I’m shaving my sideburns before leaving for the airport. But I’d already packed my good razor. First pass with a disposable: right side was crooked. By the time right and left were even, they were too high, and the left was straight while the right was slightly not. Best to leave them alone. At the airport: flight was delayed an hour because of weather in

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To Jakob Grimm, bhorn this dhay in 1785 in Hanau (via rogueclassicism; cf. anggarrgoon).Das Porträt von Jakob GrimmOn the German philologist’s life, see the Answers.com article. (So there was a reason for that movie.)

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(OK, so I have some time and nervous energy to spend.) Recent websurfings and leisurely searchings turned up a recent write-up, featuring two cool colleagues, of the generosity of Prof. A. Richard Diebold, Jr., emeritus (Arizona) to UCLA Indo-European Studies and the Humanities Division:UCLA College Report 3 (Winter 2005): 30[PDF of full version; PDF of p.30; HTML of p.30]Some other scholarly

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Culled from the final version of the program [PDF], with links to electronic abstracts (unfortunately, the AIA on-line scheduling tool has not been working on any of my browsers [Mac OS X 10.3.9]; I wish there was an easy way for me to implement rogueclassicist’s suggestion):Section 5—LinguisticsRoger Woodard (Buffalo), PresiderMark. R. V. Southern (Middlebury), “Mapping Roman Communities,

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In my best Proto-Indo-European, Hittite, Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin:Image taken from janus-Verlag.

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It’s the penultimate day of the calendar year’s last month, so I take stock of the year’s efforts.Site StatisticsSauvage noble entered its adolescence in 2005, I think, after a blogging novitiate that lasted from August 2003 to mid-May 2004. Voice and scope found definition: autobiography with respect to professional activity; bibliography; etymology; popular-cultural commentary from the

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