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Etymological dictionary of the Hittite inherited lexicon by Kloekhorst, Alwin

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Abbreviations and symbols -- General introduction -- Aim of this work -- The study of Hittite -- Dating of texts -- Methods of transcription --Anatolian language family -- The place of the Anatolian branch within PIE -- Towards a Hittite historical grammar -- Historical phonology -- Proto-Indo-European phoneme inventory -- Proto-Anatolian phoneme inventory -- Hittite phoneme inventory -- Cuneiform script -- Stops -- Glottal stop -- Affricate -- Fricatives -- Resonants -- Syllabic resonants -- Semi-vowels -- Vowels -- Plene spelling -- Ambiguity --Plene spelling of E and I -- The signs U and U -- Word-initially before vowels -- Word-initially before --Consonants -- Word-internally between consonant and vowel -- Word-internally between vowels -- Word-internally between vowel and consonant -- Word-internally between consonants -- overview of interconsonantal reflexes -- Word-finally after --Consonants -- Word-finally after vowels -- Conclusions -- Regarding U and U -- Epenthetic vowels -- Overview of the Hittite phoneme -- Inventory -- Changes from PIE to Hittite -- Lenition -- Fortition -- Stops.…”
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