The Ancient Languages of Asia MinorRoger D. Woodard This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language. |
Contents
Language in ancient Asia and | 1 |
Hittite calvert watkins 551 | 6 |
Luvian h craig melchert 576 | 31 |
Middle Indic stephanie w jamison | 33 |
Palaic h craig melchert 585 | 40 |
Lycian h craig melchert 591 | 46 |
Old Tamil sanford b steever | 50 |
Lydian h craig melchert 601 | 56 |
Urartian | 105 |
Pahlavi mark hale | 123 |
Latin james p t clackson 789 | 124 |
Ancient Chinese alain peyraube | 136 |
Etruscan helmut rix 943 | 145 |
9Mayan victoria r bricker | 163 |
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Carian h craig melchert 609 | 64 |
Attic Greek roger d woodard 614 | 69 |
Old Persian rudiger schmitt | 76 |
Hurrian | 81 |
Avestan mark hale | 101 |
IndoEuropean henry m hoenigswald | i |
Reconstructed ancient languages don ringe 234 | v |
List of abbreviations | xi |
Preface to the first edition roger d woodard | xix |
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a-stems absolutive accusative adjectives affricate Akkadian allophonic alphabet anaphoric Anatolian languages animate aorist attested bilingual Brixhe Carian century BC class-marker Classical Armenian clauses clitics clusters conjunctive consonant consonantal cuneiform dative dative-locative declensions definite derivational dialect diphthongs Early Georgian Eichner enclitic endings ergative example final first fricative function geminate gender genitive Greek Gusmani Hattusa head noun Hieroglyphic Hittite identified imperative imperfect indicative Indo-European languages infinitive inflectional inscriptions intr intransitive Kadmos lexicon linguistic locative logograms Luvian Lycian marked marker Melchert millennium BC Mittani Mittani Letter morpheme morphology nasal Neo-Phrygian obstruent Old Hurrian Palaic Paleo-Phrygian paradigms participle particles phonemes PHONOLOGY Phrygian position prefix present preterite pronominal Proto-Anatolian Proto-Indo-European reflects reflexive root root-complements script Series signs singular and plural spelling stem stops suffix syllable synchronic syntactic syntax tense texts thematic third singular transitive verbs transliterated Urartian verbal voiced voiceless vowel word-final words writing system written