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The "handedness" of language: Directional symmetry breaking of sign usage in words. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 Language, which allows complex ideas to be communicated through symbolic sequences, is a characteristic feature of our species and manifested in a multitude of forms.
Ashraf MI, Sinha S.
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Hi-inflected verbal *CóC-stems in Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luwian [PDF]
Journal of Language Relationship, 2017 In Luwian, as in Hittite, the *CóC-stem formation is the counterpart of PIE. perfect *C1e-C1óC2-. In Proto-Anatolian the PIE. perfect shows hardly any traces of a reduplication syllable (although there are examples); principally, it shows only the o-ablaut. Structurally, the Hittite hi-verbs are best compared to the isolated PIE. verb *u̯eid- 'to know',
Vernet Pons, Mariona
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A New Funerary Stele from Karkemish and New Values for Some Anatolian Hieroglyphic Signs
Belleten, 2023 Karkemish is located on the West bank of Euphrates River, about 60 kilometres southeast of Gaziantep, Turkey, and 100 kilometres northeast of Aleppo, Syria.
Hasan Peker
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Gephyra, 2022 In this article, an edition of an unpublished inscription (MARAŞ 16) on a basalt bull statue of the 8th century BCE from Maraş is presented. Unlike the two rulers by the name of Larama known in Gurgum history, the author of the inscription is a third ...
Hasan Peker
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Syllable Weight Gradation in the Luwic Languages
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 118, Issue 2, Page 211-236, July 2020., 2020 Abstract This paper offers a new perspective on Čop's Law and Open Syllable Lengthening, two commonly accepted sound laws that lengthened both consonants and vowels in the Luwic languages. It is proposed that both developments take similar inputs and ultimately yield the same effect: neutralisation of the syllable weight opposition in accented ...
Alexander Vertegaal
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After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria [PDF]
, 2013 The disappearance and weakening of the Late Bronze Age territorial empires in the Eastern Mediterranean shortly after 1200 BC is traditionally held to be followed by a so-called Dark Age of around 300 years, characterized by a lack of written sources ...
Weeden, Mark
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Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]
, 2011 This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
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Gephyra, 2019 After the discovery of the long Phoenician and Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions of Karatepe (Cilicia), which mention a certain Muksas or MPŠ as the founder of a dynasty, this name was immediately linked with a fabled Greek seer named Mopsos, because ...
Diether Schürr
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Tuwati and Wasusarma: Imitating the behaviour of Assyria [PDF]
, 2010 This essay reviews the evidence concerning the Tabalian king Wasusarma and his father Tuwati, who appear in Neo-Assyrian and Urartian annals. The context for the removal of Wasusarma (Uassurme) from power by the Assyrian king is assumed to have lain in ...
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On the Extinction of the Luwian ziti-Names, on Lycian Ipresida and the Caunian Imbros
Gephyra, 2017 The Luwian personal names formed with -ziti ‘man’ did not survive into the later hieroglyphic inscriptions; the latest clear example is attested at Carchemish around 975 BC.
Diether Schürr
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