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Type: Doctoral Thesis Title: The Hittite inherited lexicon Author: Kloekhorst, Alwin Publisher: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University Issue Date: 2007-05-31 Keywords: Ancient Near East
Comparative Indo-European linguistics
Etymological dictionary
Historical linguistics
Historical phonology
HittitologyAbstract: Hittite was the language of the Hittite Empire that ruled over vast parts of Turkey from 1650 - 1180 BC. It was written in the cuneiform script on clay tablets. Linguistically, it belongs to the Anatolian language group, which is one of the twelve branches of the large Indo-European language family. Within the Indo-European language family, Hittite is the oldest attested language. In over 1200 pages this dissertation describes the history of Hittite in the light of its Indo-European origin. It consists of two parts. Part One, 'Towards a Hittite Historical Grammar', contains a description of the Hittite phoneme inventory and a discussion of the sound laws and morphological changes that have taken place between the Proto-Indo-European and the Hittite language stage. Part Two, 'An Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon', contains etymological treatments of all Hittite words of Indo-European origin. One of the most important conclusions of this dissertation is that the Anatolian language group was the first one to split off from Proto-Indo-European and that all other Indo-European branches have undergone a period of common innovations. Therewith Anatolian, and especially Hittite, occupies a very important position within comparative Indo-European linguistics as it sometimes has retained linguistic information that has been lost in all other Indo-European languages. Description: Promotor: J.J.S. Weitenberg
With summary in DutchFaculty: Faculteit der Letteren Citation: Kloekhorst, A., 2007, Doctoral thesis, Leiden University Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/11996 
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The Hittite inherited lexicon
The Hittite inherited lexicon
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