Differing Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European's Accent and Ablaut System
University of Kentucky professors Karen Petrone and Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby have helped bring a distinctly Russian flavor to UK. In addition to their departments, they are both a part of the Russian Studies program and helped organize 2012's Russian-themed Passport to the World events.
Reconstructing the sound system of a long-dead language is not just a thing of the past. Come and see why the "Darth Vader" sound was unpalatable for the Indo-Europeans and explore the divine nature of vowels
Kentucky’s First Annual Japanese Speech Contest was held in Lexington on March 1st, 2014. The speech contest invited high school and college level students from around the state to compete in various categories, based on their level of Japanese study. One University of Kentucky student, Faiyad Mannan, a double major in Biology and Japanese Studies, won first place in the Advanced Speech category.
The National Conference on Undergraduate Research is an annual student conference dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity in all fields of study. Unlike meetings of academic professional organizations, this gathering of young scholars welcomes presenters from institutions of higher learning from all corners of the academic curriculum. This annual conference creates a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement, provides models of exemplary research and scholarship, and helps to improve the state of undergraduate education.
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Hosted as Natural Bridge State Resort Park on Saturday, March 29, the Cross Cultural Workshop will help students explore and understand intercultural experiences.
Do you want to improve your pronunciation in Russian and become a better Russian speaker?
An informal FREE course offered for the first time will help you: Sing in Russian (Поём по-русски)
Mondays 5:30-6:30 pm, Student Center Worsham Theater
Speakers of any level of Russian are welcome!
Professor Dennis Bender (School of Music) and Anna V. Voskresensky (MCL) will meet you TOMORROW, MONDAY, MARCH 24 at 5:30 PM.
Only once a week, one hour only!
It is uncontroversial that Proto-Indo-European *-nti# regularly becomes -t /d/ in Old Irish, as in berait ‧berat ‘(they) carry’ (< *bheronti). Nevertheless, my principal claim in this talk is that just in the copula, and under certain specifiable conditions, the same sequence results instead in -n. In the course of using this new phonological rule to uncover a couple of hitherto unnoticed copular forms, I also comment on morpho-phonological curiosities in the paradigm of the Old Irish copula more generally.
In an upcoming lecture titled "Chinese-American Educational Exchanges: A Window on the Bilateral Relationship," David Adams will explore the growing partnership between two of the world's largest powers.
Two UK students have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships to study Arabic and Turkish languages.
