On September 11th and 12th, 2007, an international conference on Indo-European studies, organized by the co-editors of this volume and generously funded by the Mitsubishi Foundation, was held on the campus of Kyoto University. Scholars from East and West (Europe, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan) met to share their research on Indo-European Studies. The papers themselves reflect a conjunction of the far-flung nature of linguistic documentation in Indo-European, from its easternmost reaches (Ronald I. Kim on Tocharian) to the far west (Celtic material and data from elsewhere by Calvert Watkins), and many points in between: work on Greek (Jose Luis Garcia Ramon, Jeremy Rau, Brent Vine), Italic (Kanehiro Nishimura, Michael Weiss), Anatolian (H. Craig Melchert), Indo-Iranian (Stephanie W. Jamison, Werner F. Knobl, Masato Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kumamoto, Aurelijus Vijunas, Yutaka Yoshida), and on fundamental problems of Proto-Indo-European itself (Jay H. Jasanoff, Kazuhiko Yoshida).

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies. Contents: Chundra Cathcart: RUKI in the Nuristani Languages: An Assessment; Michael Ellsworth: The First Palatalization of Greek; Randall Gordon: Verbal Arguments and the Verbal Noun in Old Irish; Dieter Gunkel and Kevin Ryan: Hiatus Avoidance and Metrification in the Rigveda; Gary Holland: Active and Passive in Hittite Infinitival Constructions; Mattyas Huggard: On Wh-(Non)-Movement and Internal Structures of the Hittite Preposed Relative Clause; Alexander Lubotsky: The Origin of Sanskrit Roots of the Type s?v- 'to sew', d?v- 'to play dice', with an Appendix on Vedic i-Perfects; H. Craig Melchert: The PIE Verb for 'to pour' and Medial *h3 in Anatolian; Gregory Nagy: The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction; Kanehiro Nishimura: On the Chronology of Vowel Contraction in Latin Marc Pierce: The Status of the ONSET PRINCIPLE in Early Germanic; Ryan Platte: Pindaric Mythopoesis; Ryan Sandell: The Morphophonology of Reduplicated Presents in Vedic and Indo-European; Christopher Wilhelm: The Aeneid and Italian Prehistory