(Ebook) Indo-European Origins of Anatolian Morphology and Semantics: Innovations and Archaisms in Hittite, Luwian and Lycian by Stefan Norbruis ISBN 9789460933738, 9460933734

(Ebook) Indo-European Origins of Anatolian Morphology and Semantics: Innovations and Archaisms in Hittite, Luwian and Lycian by Stefan Norbruis ISBN 9789460933738, 9460933734

<p><b>Indo-European Origins of Anatolian Morphology and Semantics</b></p><b>
</b><p>Innovations and Archaisms in Hittite, Luwian and Lycian</p>
<p>Anatolian is an extraordinary branch of the Indo-European language
family. Attested in cuneiform, hieroglyphic and alphabetic texts dating
back to the first two millennia BCE, it is intriguing already by itself.
But Anatolian is also of central importance for the reconstruction of
Proto-Indo-European, the last common ancestor of the Indo-European
language family. Not only is it the earliest attested branch, it has
also long been suspected that Anatolian reflects an earlier stage of the
proto-language than that underlying the other members of the family.</p>
<p>Focusing on the three best-attested Anatolian languages, Hittite,
Luwian and Lycian, this book aims to further our knowledge and
understanding of Anatolian, and by extension Proto-Indo-European, by
offering in-depth analyses of essential issues in Anatolian historical
morphology and semantics. Various well-known debated issues as well as
several newly adduced topics are scrutinized in detail to determine
whether the innovations leading to the discrepancies with the rest of
Indo-European took place on the Anatolian or on the non-Anatolian side.</p>
<p>The present study suggests that Anatolian is in many respects closer
to the ancestor of the other Indo-European languages than it is often
claimed to be. Nevertheless, the investigation has also led to new
evidence in favor of the hypothesis that Anatolian was the first branch
to split off from the family.</p>