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Hittite

SILVIA LURAGHI, Terza Universit` di Roma

Hittite belongs to the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language
family, which has become extinct in the first half of the first
millenium b.C. Among the Anatolian languages Hittite is the best
attested; for our knowledge of it we can relay on several thousands of
clay tables, dating back to about 1750 b.C. - 1150 b.C. One of the
biggest matters of interest concerning Hittite lies in its differences
from the ancient Indo-European languages. The author does not aim at an
evaluation of the relative antiquity of the Hittite features in
comparison to those of the other Indo-European languages, rather, the
author is going to highlight the pecularities which can be connected
with major typological issues. Topics related in this sketch include:

(1) the socio-linguistic situation of Anatolia in the second millenium
b.C.; (2) phoneme inventory; graphic problems connected with the use of
cuneiform and the evolution of scribal habits; (3) relative chronology
of Hittite texts and periodization of the Hittite language; (4)
morphology: word formation, parts of speech and their inflectional
categories; gender system; (5) syntax: noun and verb phrase; types of
adnominal modifiers; auxiliaries; use of cases; verbal voice; TAM
system; (6) word order within the simple sentence; sentence initial and
sentence final position; clitics; position of the finite verb; (7)
parataxis and hypotaxis; connectives and asyndesis; types of subordinate
clauses; infinitives; (8) anaphoric relations within the text.
        The text for analysis is from Old Hittite, particularly interesting for
what concerns word order and the use of connectives.


ISBN 3 89586 076 X.
Languages of the World/Materials 114.
64pp. EUR 25.46 / USD 32.50 / DM 49.80 / # 19.90.
2nd printing: 02/2000



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