Kanišite Hittite : the earliest attested record of Indo-European /

In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kanis (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kültepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the Kārum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE), when Assyrian merchants dominated the trade in Anatolia. Especially by analysing th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kloekhorst, Alwin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
Series:Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 132.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Methodology and Analyses
  • Personal Names in the Old Assyrian Texts from Kanis
  • The Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names : Methodological Preliminaries
  • Phonological Interpretation of the Kanisite Names
  • Identifying the Linguistic Background of the Kanisite Personal Names
  • Part 2. Kanisite Hittite Personal Names: the Material
  • Kanisite Hittite Compound Names
  • Other Kanisite Hittite Names
  • Excursus 1: Kanisite asie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) and the Hittite Verbal System
  • Excursus 2 : Kanisite -asue and the Feminine Gender in Hittite and Proto Indo_European
  • Part 3. The Linguistic Status of Kanisite Hittite
  • Comparing Kanisite Hittite to Hattusa Hittite
  • Two Hittite Dialects : Historical Reality