25.5011, Books: Accent in Hittite: Kloekhorst

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:15:44
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: Accent in Hittite: Kloekhorst

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Title: Accent in Hittite 
Subtitle: A Study in Plene Spelling, Consonant Gradation, Clitics, and Metrics 
Series Title: Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 56  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
	   http://www.isdistribution.com

Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=54442 

Author: Alwin Kloekhorst

Hardback: ISBN:  9783447102087 Pages: 752 Price: U.S. $ 147.00

Abstract:

Although it is usually stated that nothing is known about accent in Hittite,
in the last decades, various bits and pieces of information about its accent
system have come about. This book provides, for the first time, a systematic
treatment of all these sources of information: the interplay between accent
and vowels (plene vs. non-plene spelling); the interplay between accent and
consonants (lenition and fortition); and the interplay between accent and
clauses (clitics and metrics). The result is a full description of the
synchronic Hittite accent system, its internal diachronic development, as well
as its Indo-European origins. The book is concluded by a word list in which
the phonological interpretation of all treated words is given, including the
place of their accent. One of the conclusions of this book is that the accent
system of Hittite is similar to, and sometimes even more archaic than the
accent systems of its cognates Ancient Greek and Vedic Sanskrit, and thus
provides a totally new and unique source of information for the reconstruction
of Proto-Indo-European accent. This book is therefore not only of interest to
Hittitologists, but certainly also to Indo-Europeanists. Moreover, the
methodology that is used in this book for extracting accentological
information out of texts written in the cuneiform script may also provide a
working tool for scholars interested in the accent systems of other cuneiform
languages. (Harrassowitz Verlag 2014)

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Hittite (hit)
                     Sanskrit (san)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Written In: English  (eng)

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