Kanisite Hittite : : the earliest attested record of Indo-European /

Kanisite Hittite : : the earliest attested record of Indo-European / / by Alwin Kloekhorst.

In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kaniš (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kültepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE), when Assyrian merchants dominated the trade in Anatolia. Especially by analysing th...

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Superior document:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 132
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Kloekhorst, Alwin,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 132.
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East Online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (315 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Methodology and Analyses
  • 1 Personal Names in the Old Assyrian Texts from Kaniš
  • 1.1 Dating of Texts
  • 1.2 Old Assyrian Texts from Outside Kaniš
  • 1.3 Men's vs. Women's Names
  • 1.4 Family Relations
  • 1.5 Names Attested in Other Sources
  • 2 The Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names: Methodological Preliminaries
  • 2.1 Kanišite Names
  • 2.2 Methodological Difficulties
  • 3 Phonological Interpretation of the Kanišite Names
  • 3.1 The Transliteration of the Cuneiform Signs
  • 3.2 Spelling Alternations in Names
  • 4 Identifying the Linguistic Background of the Kanišite Personal Names
  • 4.1 The Term nuwā'um
  • 4.2 Influence of the Local Language(s) of Kaniš on Old Assyrian
  • 4.3 Arguments for a Hittitoid Identification
  • 4.4 Arguments for a Luwic Identification
  • 4.5 Arguments for a Hurrian Identification
  • 4.6 Arguments for a Hattic Identification
  • 4.7 Names of an Unclear Origin
  • 4.8 Conclusions: Kanišite Hittite
  • Part 2: Kanišite Hittite Personal Names: the Material
  • 5 Kanišite Hittite Compound Names
  • 5.1 The Linking -a-
  • 5.2 The Final Elements of the Kanišite Hittite Compound Names
  • 5.3 The Initial Elements of the Kanišite Hittite Compound Names
  • 5.4 Summary: an Overview of Elements
  • 6 Other Kanišite Hittite Names
  • 6.1 Relatively Certain Cases
  • 6.2 Less Certain Cases
  • 6.3 Excursus: the Alleged(?) Kanišite Name labarna(š)
  • 7 Excursus 1: Kanišite ašie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) and the Hittite Verbal System
  • 7.1 ašie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.)
  • 7.2 A Morphological Analysis
  • 7.3 ašie/at and na/ikilie/at as Original Verbal Forms
  • 7.4 Other Names in -iet / -iat
  • 8 Excursus 2: Kanišite -ašue and the Feminine Gender in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European
  • 8.1 -ašu-e and PIE *-ih₂-
  • 8.2 Feminine Gender in Anatolian?
  • 8.3 The Original Function of PIE *-ih₂-
  • 8.4 The Element -e in -ašue: a Motion Suffix or an Agreement Marker?
  • Part 3: The Linguistic Status of Kanišite Hittite
  • 9 Comparing Kanišite Hittite to Ḫattuša Hittite
  • 9.1 Epenthesis in */sp-/
  • 9.2 Kanišite Hitt. -ḫšu(šar) vs. Ḫattuša Hitt. ḫaššu(šra)-
  • 9.3 Kanišite Hitt. išpud- / šupud- vs. Ḫattuša Hitt. išpant-
  • 9.4 Kanišite Hitt. išpun- / šapun- / šupun- vs. Ḫattuša Hitt. išpant-
  • 9.5 Two Different Dialects: Kanišite Hittite vs. Ḫattuša Hittite
  • 10 Two Hittite Dialects: Historical Reality
  • 10.1 The Language Situation in Ḫattuša in the Early 2nd Millennium BCE
  • 10.2 Dating the Hattic-Hittite Language Shift in Ḫattuša
  • 10.3 The Place from Where Hittite was Introduced into Ḫattuša
  • 10.4 Problem: Ḫattuša Hittite is not Kanišite Hittite
  • 10.5 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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