Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology

Joseph M. Tronsky Memorial Annual International Conference


June 21–23, 2021

Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Classical Philology — XXV

The conference is dedicated to a wide range of topics related to the fields of Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology.

The published materials of the previous conferences are in open access at the web-site of the journal Indo-European Linguistics and Classical Philology: https://tronsky.iling.spb.ru/en/issues.html?en.

This year the conference will be held on June 21–23, 2021 at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Due to the epidemic the conference will be held in a hybrid mode with a limited number of participants present at the conference hall and at the on-line sessions on the Zoom platform. The links to the conference sessions will appear in the updated conference program that will become available on this web-page on June 20.

Conference Program

Please check updates of the program below. Changes may occur due to unexpected technical issues. In order to facilitate search the information about terminated sessions will be removed from the program below in the course of the conference.

Please find the conference program and published conference materials in the .pdf format at the bottom of this page.


INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS AND CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY – XXV

in Memory of Professor Joseph M. Tronsky


June 21

1100–1400, Plenary Session


Kazansky N. N. Greetings.

Mavrogiannis Th. The Mosaics of the «House of Aion» at Nea Paphos: The Palingenesia of the Roman Empire in 348 A.D. during the conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the East.

Zheltova E. V., Zheltov A. Ju. Towards the asymmetry between nominal and pronominal paradigms in Latin.

Kassian А. S. Classification of IE languages.

June 21

1500–1800, Classical Philology


Kruglova K. V. Word order in the noun phrase in Mycenaen Greek.

Evdokimova A. A. Accentuation systems in Greek Athos manuscripts.

Bolotov S. G. «...an armlet ornèd / With dragon of enamel»: to the etymology of Finist [the brave falcon].

Hill E. The inessive case of Lithuanian ‘long’ (determinate) adjectives and the phonetic realisation of the acute intonation in Proto-Baltic.

Salbiev T. K. Indo-European merism «men and cattle» in Ossetian poetics (mythological aspect).

Duvakin E. N. Your house is on fire! The European motif in light of Siberian and American data.

Solopov A. I. On the declension of Latin place-names, homonymous with the appellative nouns (of the type ‘Trēs Tabernae’).


June 21

1500–1800, Medieval Studies


Ivoška D. Russische Personennamen in den finanziellen Dokumenten des Deutschen Ordens. https://youtu.be/2bTB_Q88U3M

Chernoglazov D. A. «O muses, mourn for the golden-tongued!»: some notes on Constantine Manasses’ «Monody on the death of the goldfinch». https://youtu.be/kX6N76E47pw

Ivanov S. V. Latin and vernaculars in a medieval monastery.

Jackson T. N. On the Old Norse place-name Haraldseið ‘Harald’s Isthmus’. https://youtu.be/KTN878e1tY4

Kuzmenko E. A. Purgatorium and Refrigerium in the Eschatological Space of “Dialogus miraculorum” by Caesarius of Heisterbach and “Liber revelationum” by Richalm of Schöntal.

Bondarko N. А. Sayings of spiritual teachers in German manuscript anthologies of the XIV century: defining the genre.

Andreev A. V. M. Daukša’s spelling principles: on the problem of relative chronology of Postilla and Cathecism.

Sharikhina M. G. Formation of the tradition of using forms izhe, yazhe, ezhe in place of the Greek article in Church Slavonic liturgical literature (based on the Books of Needs of the 13th-17th centuries). https://youtu.be/GouihYa_x-8


June 21

1500–1700, Ancient East


Alexandrov B. E. Zu-Ba‘ala’s Family of Diviners and Its Status in Emar of the 14th–13th centuries BCE.

Bogdanov I. V. Egyptian kinship term mwt «mother» as a metaphor for an object or concept.

Safronov A. V., Karlova K. F. The Nubian Expedition of Ptolemy, son of Lagos.

Karlova K. F. Restoration of Ramesside royal ideology in Roman Egypt: interpretation of the relief from Hibis temple.

Bratukhin A. Yu. The writings of Clement of Alexandria as «theological panspermia».

Zinovkin A. Hebrew lexicon according to the Ishodad of Merv's commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.


June 22

1000–1400, Classical Philology


Shumilin M. V. Linguistic peculiarities in the Passio Susannae (BHL 7937).

Koshevskaia A. Yu., Davydov T. G. Specifics of Metrics and Phonotactics of the Preposition ἕνεκα in Aristophanes’ Comedies

Sharshukova O. N. Labor improbus (Verg. Georg. I 145–146)

Davydov T. G. Greek Word End Rule and the Formation of the Standart Spelling of Proclitics ἐκ (ἐξ) and ἐν

Kotova A. V. On sources of the similes in Statius’ “Achilleid”: 1, 159–166, 823–826

Prikhodko E. V. «Pydnae» of Stadiasmus and «Cydna» of Ptolemy: if there are any grounds for identification?

Egorova S. K. Horace’s edition by Fr. Vollmer



June 22

1000–1400, Onomasiology and Iranian studies


Gorlov N. G., Konyor D. V., Sobolev A. N., Esher A. L. The dialectal profile of a speaker of the East Serbian idiom (on the basis of the data from Topli Do).

Ivanenko O. V. The Cimmerian kings’ names (mTe-uš-pa-a и mDug-dam-me-i).

Iliadi A. I. «Iranica» in the Dnieper Region Toponymy.

Giunashvili E.D. Middle Iranian Onomastics in the Epigraphy of pre-Christian Georgia.

Lebedev A. V. Indo-Aryan names in the saga of Argonauts, onomastics of Colchis and Greek inscription of the Northern Black Sea region.

Dzitstsoity Y. A. On the Ossetian «Zoroastrianism» (the Alanian dualism).

Falileyev A. Miscellanea Venetica III.

Petrosyan A. Primary homeland of Armenians.

Lemeškin I. An Old Baltic text from Crete. Reading specifics and reading sequence.

Blažienė G. Baltic onyms in time and space.

June 22

1000–1400, Reception of Antiquity


Eloeva F. A., Vorobyev G. M., Gogoleva K. A. The reception of Luigi Groto’s Isac (1586) in the anonymous Η Θυσία του Αβραάμ (late 16th–early 17th century).

Bratuchina L. V. Ancient myth as the basis of the mythologism in The Cantos by E. Pound.

Kurilova A. D. Rhetoric Latin manuscript of the 18th century from Smolensk in the context of development of rhetorical education in Russia.

Matveev E. M., Smirnova A. S. Characters of the same name in M. Lomonosov’s “Brief guide to eloquence”: the foregoing rhetorical tradition and the poetical practice in the 2nd part of the 18th century.


June 22

1500–1800, German Studies


Kuzmenko Yu. K. Tyr on Scandinavian bracteates.

Eseleva A. A. The Old English translation of Gregory’s Dialogues (correspondences for Latin causal structures).

Kleiner S. D. Bodley version of Mandeville’s Travels: problems of translation.

Yatsenko M. V. Motifs of Death and Exile in the Old English poem “Exodus”: Principles of the use of epic narration techniques in the Christian epic.

Gavrichenkov A. N. On the meaning of the German term *līhvan.

Kryukova D. B. The two-component verb complex in the Middle Low German translations of the Psalter: to the problem of variation.

Khorkov M. L. On the question of authorship of the «Little Book of Love» («Minnebüchlein») in the light of its Latin version.

Naiditch L., Libert E. A. Plaut or Plot? Studying the development of the vowel system in the Mennonite Low German dialects.


June 22

1500–1800, Classical Philology


Zeltchenko V. V. "All are at home": Sapph. fr. 104a Voigt and Theocritus. https://youtu.be/2HGw2sxMnc4

Nikolsky B. M. Peace, Sex, and Grapes: interpreting a stasimon from Aristophanes' Acharnians 988-999. https://youtu.be/UX1mhxZJt5A

Kazanskaya M. N. Βαθύπεπλος Ἑλένη and συρίζουσα… λόγχη: on two ‘Homeric’ quotations in Servius (ad Aen. 7, 275 and 12, 691). https://youtu.be/KuahttTmFfQ

Musbakhova V. T. Two traditions of Amazonomachy in Plutarch (Thes. 27). Preliminary observations. https://youtu.be/RDUVxJ-FTFA

Antonets E. V. The structure of the period in Cicero’s Aratea. https://youtu.be/wcNQOi8MjfE

Osipova O. V. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the presentation of the earliest history. https://youtu.be/2W-XmUuwAFg

Mezheritskaya S. I. “Κακοδαιμóνες σοφισταί”? Self-presentation of sophists in the Roman world. https://youtu.be/Esn0XgDIzY8

Mirolyubov I. A. Vita Saturnini: Commentary on a fictional biography. https://youtu.be/yC9DbyyOhUk


June 22

1500–1800, History of Philology


Voloshina O. A. Description metalanguage in Taittiriya Pratishakhya and Ashtadhyai Panini: continuity and innovation.

D’Antonio C. Buddhist Sanskrit and the invention of “gender” by pre-modern Japanese grammarians.

Kareva N. V., Kuznetsova N. A. Principal and auxiliary parts of speech in M.V. Lomonosov’s «Russian grammar».

Bondar L. D., Smirnov A. V. Lexical materials in the scientific heritage of D. G. Messer­schmidt and peculiarities of the interpretation of zoological vocabulary.

Svetozarova N. D. On the history of the “Lev Ščerba memorial conferences”.

Pankratova E. G. On the history of the development of Ancient archeology in the 1930s in the USSR (based on the materials of the investigative case of Grigory Borovka).

Andronov A., Suprunchuk M. From Evgenij Polivanov’s accentological heritage: «The functions of accent as a problem of general phonetics».

Slavyatinskaya М. N. Presentation of the newly published book on Isaiah M. Nakhov.


June 23

1100–1400, Classical Philology


Corso A. Praxiteles’ statue set up in Olbia Pontica.

Castrizio D. The problem of the identification of the Riace Bronzes: a literary approach.

Panteleev A. D., Ponikarovskaya M. V. Actors and Emperors: the Technitai of Dionysus in the 1st–2nd Centuries AD.

Kirillova M. N. Origins of limitatio in the Works of Roman Land Surveyors.

Khorkova I. V. Fragment on the renewal of Roman games: details and sources.

Novichkova O. A. About semantic differences of synonymous verbs with the meaning body weight loss in the Galen’s treatise “Hygiene”.

Yanzina E. V., Korneev O. V. Ancient athletic festivals: names, organization and procedures (lexical issues).

Zabudskaya Y. L. Functions of tragic quotations in Plutarch’s Lives.


June 23

1100–1400, Grammar and Semantics


Shlyakhter M. E. On the meaning of laoẙāno ‘to make (someone) take (something)’ in the 16th-17th century Bengali poetry and prose.

Chernysheva V. A. Use of terms dualis and communis in Cledonius and Sergius. https://youtu.be/-DFJzVib4x8

Popova I. D. Development of polysemy in the verbs of movement (Lat. ambire). https://youtu.be/d0AkQb1MfoQ

Braylovskaya A. A. Dative athematic ending -ι in Homeric poems and in Ancient Greek dialects. https://youtu.be/qUKVeFD2ujY

Lyutikova E. A., Sideltsev A. V. Bracketing paradoxes at clausal boundaries in Hittite. https://youtu.be/BXwlu58a0Vc

Shatskov A. V. On the valence orientation of the PIE language.


June 23

1500–1700, Final Plenary Session


Braginskaya N. V. Of What the Dove Sings?

Egorov Ι. Μ., Kazansky N. N, Kisilier M. L. Latin-Russian corpus. https://youtu.be/6_aXczERmkg

Rozhdestvenskaya T. V. Towards the Problem of Literacy of the XI–XIV Centuries in Old Russian Churches: the Sacred and the Profane. https://youtu.be/4AYQhJzqW8M


Program_en.pdf

Conference program

Conference materials, Part 1.pdf

Conference materials, part 1

Conference materials, Part 2.pdf

Conference materials, part 2

Contacts

Head of the organizing committee

Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Kazansky

E-mail: nkazansky@iling.spb.ru

This year the conference will be held in a hybrid mode with a limited number of participants present at the conference hall of the Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS, and at the on-line session on the Zoom platform.