H. Craig Melchert – författare

Hoffner and Melchert’s long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual examples. Moreover, the authors take into account a vast array of studies on all aspects of the Hittite language. In the five decades since the publication of the second edition of Johannes Friedrich’s Hethitisches Elementarbuch (1960), our knowledge of Hittite grammar has become more detailed and nuanced, especially because of the number of new texts available and the growing body of secondary literature. This first volume in the LANE series fills a serious gap and offers a comprehensive reference for decades to come.The second volume is a tutorial that consists of a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for the student to translate. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and provides extensive notes.The printed grammar volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM that contains the entire text of the grammar and tutorial in searchable, cross-referenced, and hyperlinked form.

Since its publication in 2008, A Grammar of the Hittite Language has been the definitive Hittite reference and teaching tool. This new edition brings Hoffner and Melchert’s essential work up to date, incorporating the dramatic progress achieved in the field over the past fifteen years.Heavily revised and expanded, the second edition recasts the discussion of topics to better serve the linguistically informed reader. A reorganized presentation of the synchronic facts makes them accessible to both Hittitologists and linguists interested in Hittite for historical or typological purposes. Part 1 provides a thorough overview of Hittite grammar that is grounded in abundant textual examples. Part 2 is a tutorial that guides students through a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for translation. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and includes extensive updated notes. Taken together with Part 2: Tutorial, which guides students through a series of graded lessons keyed to this reference grammar, the work remains the most comprehensive and detailed Hittite grammar ever produced.

Designed to accompany A Grammar of the Hittite Language, Part 1: Reference Grammar, this tutorial guides language learners through a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for translation drawn from actual Hittite texts. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and provides extensive and updated notes, a vocabulary list for each lesson, and a comprehensive glossary.

Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston: Phonological Movement in Greek and Latin; Vaclav Blazek: On 'horse' in Slavic; Chiara Bozzone: New Perspectives on Formularity; Andrew Miles Byrd: Motivating Sievers' Law; Jose L. Garcia Ramon: Reconstructing IE Lexicon and Phraseology: Inherited Patterns and Lexical Renewal; Adam Hyllested: The Precursors of Celtic and Germanic; Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Distributive Numerals in Tocharian B and Balto-Slavic; Paul Kiparsky: Compositional vs. Paradigmatic Approaches to Accent and Ablaut; Melanie Malzahn: All Indo-European Compounds Are Derived from a Common Origin: New Evidence for a Darwinian View of IE Nominal Compounding; Alexander Nikolaev: Time to Gather Stones Together: Greek ???????? and Its Indo-European Background Birgit Anette Olsen: Martinet's Rule of Laryngeal Hardening: A Reappraisal; Jens Elmegard Rasmussen: Some Debated Hittite Verbs: Marginalia to Recent Scholarship; Kazuhiko Yoshida: 1st Singular Iterated Mediopassive Endings in Anatolian

Chundra CATHCART: RUKI in the Nuristani Languages: An Assessment Michael ELLSWORTH: The First Palatalization of Greek Randall GORDON: Verbal Arguments and the Verbal Noun in Old Irish Dieter GUNKEL and Kevin RYAN: Hiatus Avoidance and Metrification in the Rigveda Gary HOLLAND: Active and Passive in Hittite Infinitival Constructions Mattyas HUGGARD: On Wh-(Non)-Movement and Internal Structures of the Hittite Preposed Relative Clause Alexander LUBOTSKY: The Origin of Sanskrit Roots of the Type si:v- 'to sew', di:v- 'to play dice', with an Appendix on Vedic i-Perfects H. Craig MELCHERT: The PIE Verb for 'to pour' and Medial *h3 in Anatolian Gregory NAGY: The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction Kanehiro NISHIMURA: On the Chronology of Vowel Contraction in Latin Marc PIERCE: The Status of the ONSET PRINCIPLE in Early Germanic Ryan PLATTE: Pindaric Mythopoesis Ryan SANDELL: The Morphophonology of Reduplicated Presents in Vedic and Indo-European Christopher WILHELM: The Aeneid and Italian Prehistory

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies. Content: Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston: Clitic Order in Hittite; Václav Blažek: Hittite wakšur; Chundra Cathcart: Vedic Labial Dissimilation Revisited; Adam Catt: The Particle *h2(é)u in Vedic and Beyond: A New Proposal on Its Function and Etymology; Steven Faulkner, Jr.: On "Wheeler''s Law Generalization" and the Accentuation of Greek Verbal Governing Compounds in *-o-; Adam Hyllested: Albanian hundë ''nose'' and Faroese, SW Norwegian skon ''snout''; John J. Lowe: Caland Adjectives and Participles in the ?gveda: The Case of -ana-; Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead: Stem Composition: The Morphosyntax of Determinative Compounds and Bahuvrihis; Birgit Anette Olsen: Contributions to Armenian Etymology; Andrew Paczkowski: Investigating Vedic íd; Matthias Passer: Diffugere niues …: Frame Semantics Supporting the Information-Structural Analysis of Historical Texts; Michael Weiss: Italo-Celtica: Linguistic and Cultural Points of Contact between Italic and Celtic; Mark Wenthe: On the Syntax of Rigvedic Accusative Enclitic Pronouns; Sabine Ziegler: "Blood and Thunder" in Celtic, Hittite, and Sanskrit Law.

Chiara Bozzone: Initial "e;Yod"e; in Greek and the Etymology of Gk. ?pp?? 'horse' Petra Goedegebuure: Hittite Noun Phrases in Focus Hans Henrich Hock: Come and Get It: The Indo-European Background of the Vedic eta ... stavama Construction Cynthia A. Johnson: Multiple Antecedent Agreement: A Comparative Study of Greek and Latin Joshua T. Katz: The Hymnic Long Alpha: ???sa? ?e?d? and Related Incipits in Archaic Greek Poetry Daniel Kolligan: PIE *seh1- 'let loose, unharness', *seh1?- 'arrive' and Greek ??a, ???, Armenian hasanem John J. Lowe: Indo-European "e;Transitive"e; Nouns and the Accusative of Experiencer H. Craig Melchert: Ablaut Patterns in the Hittite ?i-Conjugation Sarah Morris: From Kizzuwatna to Troy? Pudu?epa, Piyamaradu, and Anatolian Ritual in Homer Norbert Oettinger: Before Noah: Possible Relics of the Flood-Myth in Proto-Indo-Iranian and Earlier Alexander Piperski: Vowel Lengthening in Slavic Nominal Prefixes Thomas Steer: Some Remarks on the Derivation of Amphikinetic Collectives Yasuko Suzuki: Clitic Verbs in Early Germanic: Evidence from Old English Beowulf vi Contents Elizabeth Tucker: Old Persian asabara- 'horse-borne', RV k?irapaka- 'cooked in milk', and the Restructuring of Vowel Quantities in Indo-Iranian Thematic Verbal Nouns Calvert Watkins: Aspects of the "e;Expressive Dimension"e; in Indo-European: Toward a Comparative Grammar of Speech Registers

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies.

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies.

Cuneiform Luvian was a language spoken in the second millennium B.C. in ancient Anatolia, or what is now Turkey. It is preserved in documents written in cuneiform script that are important for our knowledge of language, religion, and culture during the Hittite Empire. A Dictionary of Cuneiform Luvian offers the most up-to-date synthesis of scholarly research on this language's vocabulary, our understanding of which has substantially expanded in recent decades. Every occurrence of every word is presented, together with a grammatical introduction, extensive linguistic and textual commentary, and a full bibliography.