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Deriving preverbal position in a verb-final language: the case of Hittite
Glossa, 2021 The paper presents an analysis of clause structure in Hittite, a coherently head-final language with SOV word order and an elaborated preverbal position hosting various functional elements of the clause. We argue that the best approach to capturing these
Andrei V. Sideltsev, Ekaterina Lyutikova
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The Ahhiyawa Question: Reconsidered
Belleten, 2021 Since Hrozny deciphered the Hittite language, nearly thirty thousand Hittite texts have been translated. About thirty of these texts directly or indirectly refer to the “Ahhiyawa” Kingdom and its king.
Cenker Atila
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Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
ALAC, 2023 Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples – Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans – and non-Indo-European ones – Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians – coexisted with each other for extended periods of time during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important ...
Giusfredi Federico +2 more
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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2023 The emergence of new languages out of languages in contact is a phenomenon that can be observed with a naked eye on the African terrain (see Abidjan French, Sango, Swahili for example).
Cyril Aslanov +2 more
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Desquamation mechanism of the gothic preterite-present verb origin
Актуальні проблеми української лінгвістики: теорія і практика, 2023 The article describes the attempt to process reconstruction which caused the formation of the preterite-present verb subgroup in the Gothic language. The reconstruction was based on the primary supposition of relationship and correlation of the preterite-
Andriy Botsman +2 more
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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 ...
Bürde +39 more
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Review of H. Marquardt, Hethitische Logogramme. Funktion und Verwendung. (DBH 34, Wiesbaden, 2011). [PDF]
, 2012 A review of H. Marquardt's book on the function and use of logograms in Hittite cuneiform, which isolates two main motivations for logogram-use: tachygraphy and the avoidance of varying syllabic writings. Broad agreement is found with these results.
Weeden, Mark
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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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Banber Arevelagitut'yan InstitutiAram Kosyan’s "The Hittite Kingdom (Political History)" presents the military and political history of the Hittite Empire from the moment of its beginning (18th-17th centuries BC) until its disintegration in the late 13th century BC.
Hasmik Hmayakyan
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The Spread of ‘Heavenly Writing’
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2014 Cuneiform is the name of various writing systems in use throughout the Middle East from the end of the fourth millennium BCE until the late first century CE.
Marina ZORMAN
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