CHANGE    PRIN Progetto di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale        Contact and History in Ancient Grammar of Europe

Linguistic and cultural contacts between archaic Greece and pre-classical Anatolia

The Siena Research Unit endeavours to study the linguistic and cultural relationships between the Greek and Anatolian worlds in the second and first millennia BCE. About a century after the decipherment of Hittite and the identification of Greek names in cuneiform documents, this research field has received a new impulse, mainly thanks to the advnances in or understanding of the so-called “minor” Anatolian languages (especially Luwian, Carina, and Lycian).

Our studies within the PRIN project will deal with all levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics/phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon and semantics) and will also focus on the cultural context by using linguistic and philological methodologies.

Select bibliography

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Bianconi, M. 2015, Contatti greco-anatolici e Sprachbund egeo-micrasiatico. Stato della ricerca e nuove prospettive, «AGI» 100/2: 129-178.

Bianconi, M. 2019, The Linguistic Relationships between Greek and the Anatolian Languages, DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford.

Bianconi, M. (ed.) 2021, Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia. In Search of the Golden Fleece, Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Collins, B.J. – Bachvarova, M.R. – Rutherford, I.C. (eds.) Anatolian Interfaces: Hittite, Greeks and their Neighbours. Proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction (September 17-19, 2004, Emory University, Atlanta, GA): Oxford : Oxbow: 135-141.

Cotticelli-Kurras, P. – Giusfredi, F. 2018, Ancient Anatolian languages and cultures in contact: some methodological observations, «JLR» 16/3-4: 172-193.

Dardano, P. 2013, Lingua omerica e fraseologia anatolica: vecchie questioni e nuove prospettive, in M. Mancini – L. Lorenzetti (edd.), Le lingue del Mediterraneo antico. Culture, mutamenti, contatti, Roma: Carocci: 125-150.

Dardano, P. 2015, Le iscrizioni bilingui licio-greche: tipi e funzioni a confronto, «SSL» 53: 207-226.

Dardano, P. 2017, Hittite and Homeric phraseology compared: introducing the soliloquy in the Homeric and Near Eastern epic, in F. Logozzo – P. Poccetti (edd.), Ancient Greek Linguistics: New Perspectives, Insights, and Approaches, Berlin: de Gruyter: 791-809.

Dardano, P. 2020, The accusative of respect in Homeric Greek as evidence for language contact, in M. Leiwo – M. Vierros – S. Dahlgren (eds.), Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 9). 30 August – 1 September 2018, Helsinki, Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica: 1-29.

García Ramón, J.L. 2011, Idiome in der hethitischen Literatur und in der griechischen Dichtung: anatolische Lehnübersetzungen oder indogermanische Phraseologie?, in M. Hutter & S. Hutter-Braunsar (Hrsg.), Überlieferungsprozesse, Textstrukturen, Ausdrucksformen und Nachwirken. Akten des Symposiums vom 18. bis 20. Februar 2010 in Bonn, Münster: Ugarit Verlag: 83-97.

García Ramón, J.L. 2012, Eredità, prestiti, mutamenti comuni nel lessico e nella morfosintassi delle lingue indoeuropee: il caso di anatolico e greco, «SILTA» 41/3: 425-439.

Gasbarra, V. — Pozza, M. 2019, Percorsi lessicali nel Mediterraneo orientale antico, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.

Gusmani, R. 1968, Il lessico ittito, Napoli: Libreria scientifica editrice.

Hajnal, I. 2018, Graeco-Anatolian Contacts in the Mycenaean Period, in M.A Fritz – J. Klein et al. (eds.), Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European, Berlin : de Gruyter: 2036-2055.

Lazzeroni, R. 2006, La codifica dell’allativo in greco e in ittita. Contributo allo studio dell’area linguistica circumegea, «AGI» 91: 106-111.

Melchert, H.C. 2014a, Greek and Lycian, in G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia Of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, vol II, Leiden/Boston: Brill: 67-70.

Melchert, H.C. 2014b, Greek and Lydian, in G. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia Of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, vol II, Leiden/Boston: Brill: 70-71.

Oettinger, N. 2002, Die griechische Psilose als Kontaktphänomen, «MSS» 62: 95-101.

Oreshko, R. 2018, Anatolian Linguistic Influences in Early Greek (1500-800 BC)? Critical Observations against Sociolinguistic and Areal background, «Journal of Language Relationship» 16/2: 93-118.

Puhvel, J. 1991 Homer and Hittite, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.

Rutherford, I.C. 2020, Hittite Texts and Greek Religion Contact, Interaction, and Comparison, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Simon, Z. 2018, Anatolian influences on Greek, in Ł. Niesiołowski-Spanò – M. Węcowski (eds.), Change, Continuity, and Connectivity. North-Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz: 376-418.

Skelton, C. 2017, Greek-Anatolian Language Contact and the Settlement of Pamphylia, «CA» 36: 104-129.

Watkins, C. 2001, An Indo-European Linguistic Area and its Characteristics, in A. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (edd.), Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance. Problems in Comparative Linguistics, Oxford : Oxford University Press: 44-63.

Watkins, C. 2007, The Golden Bowl: thoughts on the New Sappho and its Asianic Background, «CA» 26/2: 305-324.

Online resources

https://www.ediana.gwi.uni-muenchen.de

https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/index.php

https://www.hittitemonuments.com

https://hittitetexts.com

http://luwian.web-corpora.net/luwian_corpus/search