atial cases in Hittite: 100 years since Bedřich Hrozný’s deciphering of the Hittite language

• Authors: Dita Frantíková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Hittite grammar has been of great interest to comparative linguistics ever since it was deciphered by Bedřich Hrozný in 1915 and published in 1917 as Die Sprache der Hethiter (SH). Here we find the first description of the Hittite nominal system. In this article, I focus on the spatial cases as described by Hrozný and as they are understood today. In Part 1, I present the background of Hrozný’s research. In part 2, spatial cases and their internal structure are outlined. In Part 3, I discuss the Hittite spatial cases as described in SH and as understood by contemporary researchers, with a focus on the basis for possible misunderstandings. Part 4 provides an overview of later research regarding the nominal system, and especially the spatial cases. The conclusion summarizes the comparison of Die Sprache der Hethiter and contemporary research.

Keywords

EN

spatial nominal case; Hittite; Bedřich Hrozný; Die Sprache der Hethiter

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 76
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 215-232

Contributors

author

Dita Frantíková

• USJ FF UK, Celetna 20, Praha 1, 116 38, Czech Republic