Events

• Tue

  05

  Dec

  2023

  Liliane Haegeman (UGent) – “Subject drop and a narrative garden path in Christie’s Murder is Easy”

  2:30 pmBlandijn Faculteitszaal
• Tue

  12

  Dec

  2023

  Leonid Kulikov (UGent) – “Gandharva and Njörðr: an etymological and comparative-mythological perspective”

  2:00 pmBlandijn room 0.2

  In my talk I will discuss some minor deities (demons) of the Indo-Iranian pantheon such as Gandharva(s) and their possible Indo-European parallels outside Indo-Iranian. In particular, I will focus on some features of Njörðr and other Nordic Vanir gods in order to show their structural similarities with the Gandharva(s), foremost, their importance for such issues as sexuality and fertility. Special attention will be paid to the etymology of the names of these gods. I will further demonstrate that this comparison may shed some light on the anthropogonic views of the Proto-Indo-Europeans and to figure out how they envisaged the origin of humankind and the role of (minor) gods in this emergence of humans.

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• Tue

  22

  Sep

  2015

  What speakers know — or don't know — about history and about typology

  Blandijnberg 2

  Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University): What speakers know — or don't know — about history and about typology

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