Lecture | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
Anatolian evidence for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European 1st and 2nd plural personal pronouns
- Date
- Friday 15 December 2023
- Time
- Explanation
- Online participants, please email spierscs@vuw.leidenuniv.nl for the Zoom link.
- Series
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 2.06
Abstract
The interpretation of the Anatolian material for the reconstruction of the 1pl. and 2pl. personal pronouns has been debated. In this talk I will discuss the attestations of these pronouns in the Anatolian languages, with an emphasis on Cuneiform Luwian and Hieroglyphic Luwian. I will use them for a bottom-up-reconstruction of the Proto-Anatolian paradigms of the 1pl. and 2pl. personal pronouns, and compare these to the information that we have from the other Indo-European languages. It will be argued that Anatolian provides some crucial new insigths into the Proto-Indo-European state of affairs.
*Online participants, please email spierscs@vuw.leidenuniv.nl for the Zoom link.