In Kanisite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kanis (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kueltepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the karum-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 Kanisite Hittite, which constitute the oldest attested record of any Indo-European language.
"The achievement of Kloekhorst's study is that it advances the case for classifying the local language as a predecessor of Hittite... the present
state of knowledge as presented by Kloekhorst is a huge step forward and he is to be congratulated with this important milestone in Old Assyrian and Hittite studies."
-J.J. de Ridder, BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS LXXVII 3-4 (2020)
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Höhe: 240 mm
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978-90-04-39791-0 (9789004397910)
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Alwin Kloekhorst, Ph.D. (2007), Leiden University, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at LUCL. He has published extensively on Hittite, including the monographs Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Brill, 2008) and Accent in Hittite (Harrassowitz, 2014).
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Methodology and Analyses
1 Personal Names in the Old Assyrian Texts from Kanis
?1.1?Dating of Texts
?1.2?Old Assyrian Texts from Outside Kanis
?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?Kanisite Names
?2.2?Methodological Difficulties
3 Phonological Interpretation of the Kanisite Names
?3.1?The Transliteration of the Cuneiform Signs
?3.2?Spelling Alternations in Names
4 Identifying the Linguistic Background of the Kanisite Personal Names
?4.1?The Term nuwa'um
?4.2?Influence of the Local Language(s) of Kanis 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: Kanisite Hittite
Part 2: Kanisite Hittite Personal Names: the Material
5 Kanisite Hittite Compound Names
?5.1?The Linking -a-
?5.2?The Final Elements of the Kanisite Hittite Compound Names
?5.3?The Initial Elements of the Kanisite Hittite Compound Names
?5.4?Summary: an Overview of Elements
6 Other Kanisite Hittite Names
?6.1?Relatively Certain Cases
?6.2?Less Certain Cases
?6.3?Excursus: the Alleged(?) Kanisite Name labarna(s)
7 Excursus 1: Kanisite asie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) and the Hittite Verbal System
?7.1?asie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.)
?7.2?A Morphological Analysis
?7.3?asie/at and na/ikilie/at as Original Verbal Forms
?7.4?Other Names in -iet / -iat
8 Excursus 2: Kanisite -asue and the Feminine Gender in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European
?8.1?-asu-e and PIE *-ih?-
?8.2?Feminine Gender in Anatolian?
?8.3?The Original Function of PIE *-ih?-
?8.4?The Element -e in -asue: a Motion Suffix or an Agreement Marker?
Part 3: The Linguistic Status of Kanisite Hittite
9 Comparing Kanisite Hittite to ?attusa Hittite
?9.1?Epenthesis in */sp-/
?9.2?Kanisite Hitt. -?su(sar) vs. ?attusa Hitt. ?assu(sra)-
?9.3?Kanisite Hitt. ispud- / supud- vs. ?attusa Hitt. ispant-
?9.4?Kanisite Hitt. ispun- / sapun- / supun- vs. ?attusa Hitt. ispant-
?9.5?Two Different Dialects: Kanisite Hittite vs. ?attusa Hittite
10 Two Hittite Dialects: Historical Reality
?10.1?The Language Situation in ?attusa in the Early 2nd Millennium BCE
?10.2?Dating the Hattic-Hittite Language Shift in ?attusa
?10.3?The Place from Where Hittite was Introduced into ?attusa
?10.4?Problem: ?attusa Hittite is not Kanisite Hittite
?10.5?Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
