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Hittite and Areal Linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Edgar H. Sturtevant
Edgar H. Sturtevant*
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Yale University
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One of the European scholars that we have been fortunate enough to attract to this country is Giuliano Bonfante. The great importance of such newcomers for American scholarship is largely based upon the different scholastic traditions that they bring to us. Bonfante, for example, was trained in the Italian school of linguistics—neolinguistica, they call it—which was developed in sharp opposition to the doctrines of the German neogrammarians of the past seventy-five years or so. This neolinguistic method has until recently remained almost entirely unknown on this side of the ocean, and Bonfante's energetic support of it cannot fail to do us good.

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Language , Volume 23 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1947, pp. 376 - 382
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Copyright © 1947 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Die Verwantschaftsverhältnisse der indo-germanischen Sprachen; Weimar, 1872.

2 I have never seen a secondary first plural -man or -wan, but the primary -mani and -wani are so much rarer than -meni and -weni, and 2d plural -tani and -tan are so much rarer than -teni and -ten, that this is not surprising.

3 On Greek -μϵν, see Schyzer, Griechische Grammatik 662 and fn. 9.

4 Bonfante does not mention the fact that most Hittite verbs show -weni, -wen in the 1st plural. Perhaps he accepts my demonstration (IH Laryngeals §28a) that Indo-Hittite ъw and uw (or Indo-European əw and uw) became um.

5 Hittite Grammar 126.

6 KZ 30.566–91 (1890).

7 See Sturtevant, Lang. 18.181–8 (1942).

8 See Schwyzer, Griech. Gramm. 548.

9 Journal of the American Oriental Society 64.179 (1944).

10 Hittitisch und die anderen indoeuropaischen Sprachen 13–19, 29 (1938).

11 Lang. 14.245 f. (1938).

12 Lang. 10.266–73, especially 268 (1934).

13 MSL 21.249–56 (1920).

14 Sturtevant, Hittite Grammar 91, 97 (1933).