presentations

Conference presentations in reverse chronological order.

2026

  1. Talk
    *dóru ‘oak’ & *h₁rewdʰ- ‘red’: The Caland System & the Kortlandt Effect
    John Clayton
    37ᵗʰ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 23–24, 2026
  2. Talk
    Plakṣa(prā̆)sravaṇa & Fīcus Rūminālis: When Ritual Meets Geography
    John Clayton
    236ᵗʰ Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Los Angeles, April 24–27, 2026

2025

  1. Talk
    The Etymology of ‘God’ in Luwic
    John Clayton and Melvin Pötzsch
    AnatoLinks: Connections within and beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford, December 4–5, 2025
  2. Talk
    New encoding protocols for Hittite transliteration & their applications
    John Clayton
    AnatoLinks: Connections within and beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford, December 4–5, 2025
  3. Poster
    The chronology of Indo-European */wr/ > */rw/ metathesis
    John Clayton
    7ᵗʰ Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh, December 1–2, 2025
  4. Talk
    The chronology and environments of *wr > *rw metathesis
    John Clayton
    Arbeitstagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Prague, September 15–17, 2025
  5. Talk
    Arundhatī́ ‘Wound-Setter’: Parasitism, Medicine, & Sexuality in Ancient India
    John Clayton
    235ᵗʰ Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Boston, MA, April 9–12, 2025

2024

  1. Talk
    Minerva, caterva, & sonorant metathesis: Arguments against a sound law by Rix
    John Clayton
    43ʳᵈ Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Athens, GA, July 1–3, 2024
  2. Talk
    A heteroclitic origin of Vedic -yu-stems?
    John Clayton
    234ᵗʰ Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Chicago, IL, March 22–25, 2024

2023

  1. Talk
    Vedic pīlu: The Galactic Tree of Revelation
    John Clayton
    34ᵗʰ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, October 27–28, 2023
  2. Talk
    A Marriage of Conveyance: urvárī- ‘bride’ (AV) and Its Etymology
    John Clayton and Alex Roy
    233ʳᵈ Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Los Angeles, CA, March 10–13, 2023

2022

  1. Talk
    A Männerbund for All Seasons: L Māvort-, Ved. śárdho mā́rutam, U Šerfus Martius, Gr. ἀμαυρός, and H mēḫur
    John Clayton
    33ʳᵈ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 12–13, 2022
  2. Talk
    The Lengthening of *i, *u > ī, ū / __rC in Sanskrit
    John Clayton
    232ⁿᵈ Annual Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia, Boston, March 18–21, 2022
    Handout

2021

  1. Talk
    The reconstruction of *-wr̥-/-wén-stems in Vedic
    John Clayton
    32ⁿᵈ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Virtual, November 5–7, 2021
  2. Talk
    Morphological change from allophonic asymmetry: Indo-Iranian nasals and directional remodeling
    John Clayton
    95ᵗʰ Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Virtual, January 7–10, 2021

2020

  1. Talk
    A reflex of the Indo-European dragon in Italy. The relationship of Lānuvium and *Déh2nu
    John Clayton
    39ᵗʰ Annual East Coast Indo-European Conference, Virtual, June 12–14, 2020

2019

  1. Talk
    Rhinoglottophilia in Avestan: Explaining Younger Avestan *h > ŋh
    John Clayton
    31ˢᵗ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 8–9, 2019

2018

  1. Talk
    Rounding of Indo-Iranian *R̥(H)
    John Clayton
    30ᵗʰ Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 9–10, 2018