Elements of Hittite

Informationen zum Autor 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 early literacy in Hittite society. He has over twenty years of experience teaching Hittite and other Anatolian languages at the Universities of Amsterdam and Chicago. Klappentext This textbook teaches Hittite grammar in stages, using genuine material throughout, and is the first to introduce the cuneiform script. Zusammenfassung Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This introductory course comprehensively introduces Hittite grammar in ten lessons and provides ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3; Lesson 4; Lesson 5; Lesson 6; Lesson 7; Lesson 8; Lesson 9; Lesson 10; Appendix 1. Paradigms; Appendix 2. Sources of exercise material; Appendix 3. Index of syntax and phonological phenomena; Appendix 4. Cuneiform sign list; Appendix 5. Glossary.

Product details

• Authors: Theo P. J. Van Den Hout, Theo van den Hout, HOUT THEO P J VAN DEN, Theo van den Hout
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9780521115643
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11564-3
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 255 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Archaeology by period / region, Language teaching and learning material and coursework, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Other Indo-European languages