Hittite i-stems revisited – from Hrozný to the present day : preliminary study

Dita Frantíková

doi:10.5817/LB2019-2-3

Hittite i-stems revisited – from Hrozný to the present day : preliminary study

Vol.67,No.2(2019)

Dita Frantíková

https://doi.org/10.5817/LB2019-2-3

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/141960

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Abstract

Though the Hittite i-stems were examined by several scholars in the last and in the beginning of this century, the available material calls for revision of the provisional conclusions. While the basic features were recognized by Hrozný in 1917 and elaborated later by others, generalizations were based on restricted data sets which from then are being enlarged almost every year by new word forms found on cuneiform tablets. The i-stem class is the Hittite second largest nominal class, with over a thousand recorded lexemes. It is unique for the high number of borrowings and words of unknown origin, as shown in comparison with the u-stem class. Its reassessment is necessary, as pointed out by the discrepancies between what is expected to be known about this class and what seems to be an outcome of data analysis.

Keywords:
Hittite morphology; i-stems; nominal class

Pages:
31–37

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