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Greek and the Anatolian Languages of the First Millennium: Lycian, Lydian, and Carian

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This chapter addresses language contact between Late Anatolian languages and Greek from a synchronic perspective, that is, it considers the material that roughly corresponds with the written stages of Lydian, Lycian, and Car- ian. The denomination of Late Anatolian languages responds to the dating of their corpus of inscriptions, attested only during ...
Stella, Merlin   +1 more
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The Trilingual Inscription from Letôon of Xanthos and the Present State of Study of the Lycian Language, with special reference to its syntactic structure

open access: yesBulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 1983
The discovery of the trilingual inscription from Letoon by H. Metzger, 1973, has made a new epoch in the long history of the study of the Lycian language. This paper aims to clarify the main characteristics of Lycian and its position among the Anatolian languages chiefly through a syntactic analysis of the Lycian text.
Katsumi MATSUMOTO
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Palaeographic Dating of Lycian Inscriptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The aim of this article is a critical examination of earlier palaeographic studies of Lycian inscriptions. The starting point is the corpus of inscriptions whose contents provide information on their dating.
Christiansen, Birgit
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The Lycian toponym Κάδρεμα and the Anatolian wheat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The paper provides an etymological explanation for the Lycian toponym Κάδρεμα, attested in the "Ethnika" of Stephanus of ...
Valerio Pisaniello
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Onomastic interferences in Lycia: Greek reinterpretation of Lycian personal names

open access: yes, 2021
As is well known, Lycia, located on the south-western coast of Asia Minor, was a multicultural and polyglossian area, especially during the second half of the Ist millennium B.C. From the 4th century B.C.
Réveilhac, Florian
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Le statut du lycien et du grec dans les inscriptions pré-hellénistiques de Lycie

open access: yes, 2021
International audienceAramaic was used in Lycia as the official language of the Achaemenid Empire, whereas Lycian remained the main communication language as well as the language of the local power.
Réveilhac, Florian
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Rock-Cut Tombs and Two Lycian Inscriptions from Karabel-Çamdağı

open access: yes, 2021
A survey-based project on Byzantine settlements around Alacadag in Lycia has continued since 2014. It has aimed to identify and document late antique and medieval rural settlements located in the northern mountainous area of Demre ( Myra), a town in the ...
TEKOĞLU, ŞEYHMUS RECAİ   +3 more
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A Sketch of Lycian Historical Phonology (handout)

open access: yes, 2015
A basic sketch of the historical phonology of the Lycian language from Proto-Indo-European, originally compiled for a "Lycian Self-Help" reading group at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (Easter Term 2015), organised by Dr.
Matthew Scarborough
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On the interchange between 'l' and 'r' in Lycian and the case of Pinara

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, we will discuss some linguistic evidence that seems to point to an occasional alternation between /l/ and /r/ in Lycian. Particularly, we will focus on the correspondence between the Lycian toponym Pinale and its Greek equivalent Πίναρα ...
Valerio Pisaniello, Stella Merlin
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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