Conference Presentations by Xander Vertegaal
The spelling, phonetics and phonology of the Cuneiform Luwian dental stops , 2019
This paper investigates the use of the cuneiform signs TA and DA to spell dental obstruents in ou... more This paper investigates the use of the cuneiform signs TA and DA to spell dental obstruents in our Cuneiform Luwian corpus. It is argued that there are several spelling patterns, distributed across phonetic environments, and that this distribution is indicative of a phonetic contrast. Overall, the observed spelling patterns match those found in Hittite (Kloekhorst 2010, 2013, fthc.), and the differences between Hittite and Cuneiform Luwian are distributed themselves. One such difference involves the spelling of the intervocalic lenis stops in Cuneiform Luwian, suggesting that they were voiceless rather than voiced. This casts new light on the reconstruction of the Proto-Anatolian lenis stops.
Accompanying slides of a presentation delivered at the 10th International Congress of Hittitology... more Accompanying slides of a presentation delivered at the 10th International Congress of Hittitology (28 Aug. - 1 Sep.) at the University of Chicago.
Conference talk held at the 4th "Luwic Dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion" workshop in Barcelona... more Conference talk held at the 4th "Luwic Dialects: Inheritance and Diffusion" workshop in Barcelona on March 17th, 2017.
Papers by Xander Vertegaal
Hungarian Assyriological review, 2021
Altorientalische Forschungen, Dec 1, 2017
Bibliotheca Orientalis, Aug 31, 2017
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Feb 5, 2020
Historische Sprachforschung, Oct 12, 2020
Hungarian Assyriological Review
Altorientalische Forschungen, 2017
Kadmos, 2019
This paper investigates the distribution and use of the Hieroglyphic Luwian signs □ (L 100) and □... more This paper investigates the distribution and use of the Hieroglyphic Luwian signs □ (L 100) and □ (L 29), expanding on and reacting to Rieken 2010. It appears and are used contrastively not only in a select subset of texts from the Karkamiš region, but in large parts of the Hieroglyphic Luwian corpus in general. Word-internally, appears to be used wherever we expect to find a short stop (either voiced or voiceless), while is used for long (fortis) stops. This suggests that consonantal length was at least a phonetic feature in Hieroglyphic Luwian.
Indogermanische Forschungen, 2018
In Vertegaal 2017, it was argued that plene spellings(〈CV-V〉 sign sequences) in Hieroglyphic Luwi... more In Vertegaal 2017, it was argued that plene spellings(〈CV-V〉 sign sequences) in Hieroglyphic Luwian can be divided into two types: space-fillers on the one hand, and non-fillers on the other. This article focuses on plene spellings of the latter kind, as attested in texts from the Iron Age (CHLI). It is demonstrated that these non-filler plene writings are non-randomly distributed across morphemes and lexemes, indicating that this mode of spelling marks a phonetic feature. Using secure etymologies and analyses, it is proposed that non-filler (“linguistically real”) plene spellings mark the presence of long vowels or disyllabic sequences. The validity of this hypothesis is subsequently tested against less secure and doubtful etymologies as well as counterexamples. Finally, it is concluded that the hypothesis holds, thereby providing, for the first time, direct evidence for the writing of vowel length in Hieroglyphic Luwian.
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2020
Transactions of the Philological Society (Volume 118, Issue 2), 2020
This paper offers a new perspective on Cop's Law and Open Syllable Lengthening, two commonly acce... more This paper offers a new perspective on Cop's Law and Open Syllable Lengthening, two commonly accepted sound laws that lengthened both consonants and vowels in the Luwic languages. It is proposed that both developments take similar inputs and ultimately yield the same effect: neutralisation of the syllable weight opposition in accented (stressed) syllables. This development is in line with a tendency already observable in Proto-Anatolian, according to which unstressed syllables were made light, while stressed syllables were made heavy. Thus, it is argued, in the prehistory of the Luwic languages, vocalic length, consonantal length and syllable weight in general became increasingly dependent to the position of the stress and therefore became phonologically neutralised to a certain extent.
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Conference Presentations by Xander Vertegaal
Papers by Xander Vertegaal