32.819, Books: Voices in Stone: Vertegaal

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:53:42
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Voices in Stone: Vertegaal

 


Title: Voices in Stone 
Subtitle: Studies in Luwian Historical Phonology 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/voices-in-stone-studies-in-luwian-historical-phonology 


Author: Alexander Vertegaal

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933493 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

The Luwian language belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European
language family and was spoken around 3000 years ago (approx. 1500 – 700 BCE)
in an area that nowadays covers large parts of Turkey and northern Syria. Even
though this language has no living descendants and left no significant traces
in any language currently spoken in the area, we do have a steadily growing
corpus of texts, written on clay, stone and metal, in two different writing
systems: cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing.

This dissertation is concerned with the question how Luwian must have sounded
(phonetics) and how its sounds were systematically organised (phonology). It
also treats the language’s history, tracing the origins of its sounds back to
Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European. Five chapters, each of which has been
published in a peer-reviewed journal or offered for publication, cover the
most important domains of Luwian phonology: vowels, consonants and syllable
structure. At the same time, this thesis illustrates various methods used to
retrieve phonetic and phonological details from a dead language. These involve
etymology, diachronic and synchronic typology and rigorous orthographical
study. Along the way, various proposals are made to refine our phonetic
interpretation of the writing systems in which the language was documented, as
these are still imperfectly understood.

As we face a steady increase of new textual material, Luwian is becoming more
and more important as an object of study for Anatolianists and
Indo-Europeanists alike. This thesis is part of a broader movement that
involves a shift of scholarly focus away from Hittite to the lesser known
‘minor’ Anatolian languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Language Family(ies): Anatolian


Written In: English  (eng)

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