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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kloekhorst, Alwin, author.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental studies. Ancient Near East ; Section 1, v. 132.

Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der orientalistik. Section one, Ancient Near East ; volume 132

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hittite language--Dialects--Turkey--Kanesh (Extinct city).

Hittite language.

Turkey.

Turkey--Kanesh (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kanis (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 the personal names of local individuals attested in Old Assyrian documents from Kanis, Alwin Kloekhorst demonstrates that the main language spoken there was a dialect of Hittite that was closely related to but nevertheless distinct from the Hittite language as spoken in the later Hittite Kingdom. This book offers a full account of all onomastic material and other linguistic data of Kanišite Hittite, which constitute the oldest attested record of any Indo-European language.

Contents:

Part 1. Methodology and Analyses

Personal Names in the Old Assyrian Texts from Kanis

The Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names : Methodological Preliminaries

Phonological Interpretation of the Kanisite Names

Identifying the Linguistic Background of the Kanisite Personal Names

Part 2. Kanisite Hittite Personal Names: the Material

Kanisite Hittite Compound Names

Other Kanisite Hittite Names

Excursus 1: Kanisite asie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) and the Hittite Verbal System

Excursus 2 : Kanisite -asue and the Feminine Gender in Hittite and Proto Indo_European

Part 3. The Linguistic Status of Kanisite Hittite

Comparing Kanisite Hittite to Hattusa Hittite

Two Hittite Dialects : Historical Reality

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004397910

9004397914

OCLC:

1098217221