Luwic dialects and Anatolian: Inheritance and diffusion

Luwic dialects and Anatolian: Inheritance and diffusion
Author: Ignasi-Xavier Adiego
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-03-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 8491683755

This book focuses on Luwic languages, bringing together approaches from Indo-European linguistics and language reconstruction and also from other intrinsically related disciplines such as epigraphy, numismatics and archaeology, and shows very clearly how these disciplines can benefit from each other. The volume gathers together the most recent results of investigation in the field, and is the natural extension of recent work completed by a research group on Luwic dialects over a number of years. Among the thirteen contributions, fitting neatly within the Luwian and other Anatolian languages, a rich variety of subjects are covered: epigraphy, grammar, etymology, textual interpretation, and archaeological context.

Studies in the languages and language contact in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia

Studies in the languages and language contact in Pre-Hellenistic Anatolia
Author: Federico Giusfredi
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2021-10-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 8491687386

This volume focuses on contacts between Anatolian languages within and outside Anatolia. The selected essays, written by members of ongoing research projects on Anatolian languages, present case studies from both the first and second millennia. These include etymological and morphophonological investigations within the framework of Graeco-Anatolian contacts, as well as a critical essay on the possible Anatolian-Etruscan contacts. Alongside strictly linguistic analysis, the essays cover different aspects of cultural contacts (the origin of the word for ‘salt’ in Luwian), toponyms (in Lycia), and religion (the god called King of Kaunos), and are introduced with a detailed overview of the origins of the Anatolian linguistic landscape.

New approaches on Anatolian linguistics

New approaches on Anatolian linguistics
Author: José Virgilio García Trabazo
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2023-07-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 8491689370

This volume brings together the culmination of philological and linguistic work undertaken by a wide range of experts in the Anatolian languages. The research papers published here cover practically the entire linguistic and chronological spectrum of the Anatolian group of Indo-European languages, without neglecting important interactions with languages from other cultural environments, among which the Semitic group stands out. The publication can therefore be regarded as a valuable contribution to Anatolian and Indo-European studies, reflecting the persistant and sustained efforts of a group of researchers with a broad array of interests, some of whom have many years of research behind them and are well known in the field. They have now been joined by new scholars, who enable us to foresee a promising future for our disciplines.

Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation

Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation
Author: David Sasseville
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004436294

In Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation, David Sasseville provides a full analysis of the Luwian, Lycian and Lydian verbal stem classes and their pre-history in relation to Hittite.

Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts

Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts
Author: Szilvia Sövegjártó
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2024-05-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111381056

This book explores multilingualism and multiscriptism in a great variety of writing cultures, offering an in-depth analysis of how diverse languages and scripts seamlessly intertwine within written artefacts. Insights into scribal practices are particularly illuminating in that respect, especially when exploring artefacts originating from multicultural communities and regions where distinct writing traditions intersect. The influence of multilingualism and multiscriptism on these writing cultures becomes evident, with essays spanning various domains, from the mundane aspects of everyday life to the realms of scholarship and political propaganda. Scholars often relegate these phenomena, despite being frequently encountered, to the status of exceptions compared to the more prevalent monolingualism and monoscriptism. However, in daring to challenge this viewpoint, this book emphasises the profound significance and relevance of multilingualism and multiscriptism in shaping the development of languages, cultures, and societies across Asia, Africa, and Europe. It caters to a diverse readership keen on delving into the intricacies of these phenomena within this rich tapestry of writing cultures.

Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean

Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean
Author: Philippa M. Steele
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1789258529

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European
Author: Alwin Kloekhorst
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004409351

The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European contains sixteen contributions that offer the newest insights into the prehistory of Proto-Indo-European, taking the Indo-Anatolian and the Indo-Uralic hypotheses as their point of departure.

100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen

100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen
Author: Elisabeth Rieken
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2018
Genre: Hitita (Lengua).
ISBN:

"Unter dem Titel "100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen. Morphosyntaktische Kategorien in Sprachgeschichte und Forschung" sind 25 Beiträge versammelt, die einerseits Bilanz ziehen und andererseits zukunftsorientiert aktuelle Forschungsfragen verfolgen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen morphologische und morphosyntaktische Themen, welche die Bedeutung des Hethitischen für die Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, besonders im Hinblick auf die Rekonstruktion der Grundsprache und möglicher Stammbaummodelle, würdigen. Daneben bietet der Tagungsband Beiträge mit syntaktischen, syntaktisch-semantischen, methodologischen und philologischen Fragestellungen und präsentiert somit ein breites Spektrum neuer Denkanstösse und Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Anatolistik und Indogermanistik."--

A Study in the Syntax of the Luwian Language

A Study in the Syntax of the Luwian Language
Author: Federico Giusfredi
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020-08-19
Genre: Luwian language
ISBN: 9783825347253

The Ancient Anatolian corpora represent the earliest documented examples of the Indo-European languages. In this book, an analysis of the syntactic structure of the Luwian phrases, clauses, and sentences is attempted, basing on a phrase-structural approach that entails a mild application of the theoretical framework of generative grammar. While obvious limits exist as regards the use of theory-driven models to the study and description of ancient corpus-languages, this books aims at demonstrating and illustrating the main configurational features of the Luwian syntax.

Anatolian Historical Phonology

Anatolian Historical Phonology
Author: Harold Craig Melchert
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1994
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789051836974

This study represents the first comprehensive treatment of the sound system of the Hittite language and its historical development in a quarter-century. It is the very first attempt at a systematic description of the sound systems of all the ancient Indo-European languages of Anatolia. It codifies the results of a generation of collective scholarship which has made some dramatic advances, offers a number of new hypotheses, and frames the problems which remain to be solved. The contents will be of interest to Indo-Europeanists for the new perspectives on the crucial Anatolian subgroup and to scholars of second-millennium Anatolia for the up-to-date descriptions of the extant Indo-European languages of that era.