The Elements of Hittite
by Theo van den HoutFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-01-09
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Hittite is one of the earliest attested Indo-European languages and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor particularly in the second millennium BC. This exciting and accessible new introductory course, which can be used in both trimester and semester systems, offers in ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite language with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. It includes a separate section of paradigms, an index of syntactic and semantic topics, as well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in the book. A full glossary can be found at the back. The book has been designed so that the cuneiform is not essential and can be left out of any course if so desired. The introduction provides the necessary cultural and historical background, with suggestions for further reading, and explains the principles of the cuneiform writing system.
Author Biography
Theo Van Den Hout is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) since 2000. Besides his work on the dictionary, his current personal interests focus on ancient record management and literacy in Hittite society. He has over twenty years of experience teaching Hittite and other Anatolian languages at the universities of Amsterdam and Chicago.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Abbreviations | p. xiv |
| Map | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Lesson 1 | p. 16 |
| Case endings of noun and adjective; a-stems | p. 16 |
| Pronoun generalities: personal pronoun first person; enclitic personal pronoun | p. 18 |
| Verb generalities: person, number, voice, tense, mode, aspect; conjugations; present active indicative; verbs with unchanging stem | p. 20 |
| Syntax: case functions; connectives nu, ¿u, ta; conjunction -a/-ya; sentence particles; future; article | p. 23 |
| Phonology: dentals *-TT- > -TsT-; vowels; plene spellings; bound transcription | p. 26 |
| Sumerian and Akkadian: Sumerian plural; genitival relations; Akkadian prepositions | p. 28 |
| Cuneiform signs: aeiuúa¿ pát/BE nu hal tar an/DINGIR, determinatives: m LÚ fMUNUS d KUR URU É | p. 29 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 i 1-7 | p. 30 |
| Lesson 2 | p. 35 |
| i-stem nouns and adjectives | p. 35 |
| Third person enclitic pronoun | p. 37 |
| Preterite indicative active | p. 37 |
| Syntax and word formation: subject clitic ûa¿ and transitive verbs; -nu- and -ahh- causatives, -e¿¿- fientives and statives; verbal tense system; clitic conjunctions -ma- and -a-; stem forms of names | p. 39 |
| Phonology: -aya- > -a-, sonorants, and glides | p. 40 |
| Akkadian: noun cases masculine | p. 41 |
| Cuneiform signs: ka/qa pár/ma¿ iz/Gi¿ pa/hat ti en/EN na ARAD/¿ ni D¿ir, determinatives: HUR.SAG ¿ P¿GI¿ NA4 UEUDU DUG | p. 41 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 i 8-18 | p. 42 |
| Lesson 3 | p. 46 |
| u-stem nouns and adjectives | p. 46 |
| Second person personal pronoun: free-standing personal pronoun; enclitic pronoun | p. 48 |
| Present and preterite indicative medio-passive | p. 48 |
| Syntax and semantics: particles -za, -wa(r-); slots in the clitic chain; particle -pat; neuter plural subject = singular verb | p. 51 |
| Phonology: -uw- > -um-, -wu- > -mu- | p. 53 |
| Akkadian: noun cases feminine | p. 54 |
| Cuneiform signs: LÚ ¿E¿ LUGAL up p¿A¿ GU4 ga DUG ¿a ta ap at la, determinatives: T¿ S¿ GADA KU¿ IM | p. 54 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 i 16-35 | p. 54 |
| Lesson 4 | p. 60 |
| ai- and aw-noun diphthong stems | p. 60 |
| Demonstrative pronoun ka-; tamai- | p. 61 |
| Ablauting verbs lb (type epp-lapp-) | p. 62 |
| Syntax: el-1 as- "to be"; nominal sentences; possessive constructions | p. 63 |
| Phonology: double vs. single writing of consonants (Sturtevant's Law) | p. 64 |
| Akkadian: status constructus | p. 65 |
| Cuneiform signs: am ne e kal/dan un/uN ma ku ba URU i ia, determinatives: NINDA URU TU7 U GI | p. 65 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 i 36-ii 6 | p. 66 |
| Lesson 5 | p. 72 |
| -nt- and -t- noun stems | p. 72 |
| Demonstrative pronoun apa- | p. 74 |
| Thematic verb stems Ic, including -sfce-imperfectives; participles | p. 74 |
| Semantics: -¿ke-imperfectives | p. 77 |
| Phonology: -¿ke-imperfectives | p. 78 |
| Akkadian: possessive suffixes | p. 78 |
| Cuneiform signs: GAM tén hi im e¿ ¿e pu zi uz ah/eh/ih/uh har/hur/mur, determinatives: SAR KAM MU¿EN KI | p. 79 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 ii 7-32 | p. 79 |
| Lesson 6 | p. 85 |
| n-stem nouns | p. 85 |
| Relative and interrogative pronoun kui- | p. 86 |
| Ablauting verbs: Id (type huek-/huk-) and Ie (type link-/lik-); If (har-/hark- "to have, hold"), and hark- "to perish" | p. 87 |
| Syntax and semantics: relative clauses; periphrastic perfect | p. 89 |
| Phonology: nasals | p. 90 |
| Akkadian: some verb forms | p. 91 |
| Cuneiform signs: tu te li in ¿ar me ME¿ a za ha | p. 91 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 ii 33-56 | p. 91 |
| Lesson 7 | p. 97 |
| -r-/-n- or heteroclitic noun stems | p. 97 |
| Indefinite pronoun kui¿ki | p. 99 |
| Ablauting verbs: IIb (type ¿akk-/¿ekk-); Ig (type tama¿¿-/tame¿¿-); infinitive II | p. 100 |
| Syntax and semantics: conditional clauses and indefinite pronouns; relative pronouns; modal particle (-)man (optative, irrealis, potentialis) | p. 101 |
| Phonology: /r/, -tn- > -nn- | p. 104 |
| Numerals: 1,2,3 | p. 104 |
| Cuneiform signs: i¿ u¿ du da it hu ri ar kán 1 2 3 | p. 105 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 ii 57-78 | p. 105 |
| Lesson 8 | p. 110 |
| r- and l-stem nouns | p. 110 |
| Distributive pronoun kui¿¿a | p. 111 |
| Half-consonantal verb stems: IIc (type i¿sa-/ e¿¿a-); Ih (pai-) and Ii (uwa-); imperative active and medio-passive | p. 112 |
| Syntax and semantics: prefixes u- and pe-; phraseological construction; prohibitive; indefinite kui¿=a¿ imma kui¿ | p. 115 |
| Phonology: abl. -z and particle -za + conjunction ûa/-ya | p. 117 |
| Numerals: 4-10 | p. 117 |
| Cuneiform signs: ra al ka ¿i wa ul kum ru ut di ki 45678910 | p. 118 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 iii 10-38 | p. 118 |
| Lesson 9 | p. 124 |
| s-stem nouns | p. 124 |
| Suffixed possessive pronoun | p. 124 |
| Verb class IId (pai-, dai-, nai-), IIe (mema-); Ij (te-/tar-), IIIa (au¿-/au-/u-); supinum | p. 126 |
| Syntax and semantics: supinum; ergative in -ant- | p. 129 |
| Numerals: higher than 10 | p. 130 |
| Cuneiform signs: mu mi lum lam dam ¿u ik/G¿L ak ¿ir lu/UDU kat mar az/uk hé zé | p. 131 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 iii 39-72 | p. 131 |
| Lesson 10 | p. 136 |
| Irregular nouns ker, per, utne | p. 136 |
| Demonstrative and anaphoric pronoun a¿i | p. 136 |
| Verb class IIf (type da-); infinitive I, verbal noun; infinite verb | p. 137 |
| Syntax and semantics: verbal noun; genitivus quasi gerundivalis; infinitives; similes; comparative and superlative; adverbs in -ili; local or dimensional adverbs | p. 139 |
| Cuneiform signs: rad gi nam pal/BAL li¿ t¿¿ ib ur gur zu ki¿ | p. 146 |
| Exercises; KBo 3.4 iii 73-95, iv 22-48 | p. 146 |
| Paradigms | p. 152 |
| Sources of exercise material | p. 177 |
| Grammatical index | p. 179 |
| Cuneiform sign list | p. 183 |
| Glossary | p. 189 |
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