Position:

Jill Hart / Wolfson Fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Wolfson College

Email:

sogdiana783.AT.gmail.com

Research Interests:

I am a specialist in Ancient Anatolian and Old/Middle Iranian Languages, also working on more general issues in the field of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Language Contact in the Ancient Near East.

My recent book, entitled Sociolinguistics of the Luvian language, features a corpus-based study of structural interference, lexical borrowings, code-switching, and code alternation involving Luvian, an Indo-European language spoken in Bronze Age Asia Minor, and its geographic neighbors, such as Hittite, Hurrian, and Greek. I classify these data according to the existing typologies of language contact in order to reconstruct the sociolinguistic situation in Ancient Anatolia. It is concluded that Luvian was originally spoken in the central part of Asia Minor. Subsequent Luvian migrations were connected with the expansion of the Hittite state, where Hittite was the socially dominant language, but the Luvian speakers were more numerous. The unstable balance between the Hittite and the Luvian speakers continued to shift in favor of the second group, to the point that the Hittite elites were fully bilingual in Luvian.

My work in the field of Iranian philology has been thus far mainly focused on the study of the Sogdian language and the philological edition of Sogdian texts. Sogdian is an Indo-European Iranian language that was spoken in Central Asia, in the area of Samarkand and Bukhara, in the first millennium AD. For many centuries Sogdian merchants controlled the central part of the Silk Road and thus they extended their influence far beyond the area of their original habitation. During my stay in Oxford I intend to continue to contribute to the study of Sogdian, touching at the same time upon broader issues of Iranian historical linguistics. Among the problems I am currently working on are the historical development of Middle Iranian consonant clusters and the Iranian reflexes of Indo-European statives.

Courses Taught:

• Old Persian, Avestan, Middle Persian
• Luvian, Hittite  

Recent Publications:

Monographs:

• Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Circa 450 pp.

Journal Articles:

• “The Luvian Enemy”. Kadmos 47/1-2 (2009): 1-19.
• “Hittite-Luvian Bilingualism and the Origin of Anatolian Hieroglyphs”. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 4/1 (2008): 9-36.
• “Free-standing genitive and hypostasis in Hittite”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 65/1 (2006): 39-49.
• “Were Hittite kings divinely anointed?” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 5 (2005): 107-37.
•  “The Syntactic Evolution of Aramaic ZY in Sogdian”. Studia Iranica, 34/2 (2005): 199-230.
• “Lydian Etymological Notes”. Historische Sprachforchung, 118/1-2 (2005): 75-91.
• “Mugh 1.I. Revisited”. Studia Iranica 31/2 (2002): 231-53.
• “Nugae Sogdicae”. Bulletin of the School of the Oriental and African Studies, 65/3 (2002): 543-9.
• “Morphological Negation in Urartian”. Aramazd, forthcoming.

Papers in Honorary, Memorial, and Ad Hoc Volumes:

• (with M. Valério) “Semitic Word for Iron as Anatolian Loanword”. Исследования по лингвистике и семиотике: сборник статей к юбилею Вяч. Вс. Иванова (ed. T.M. Nikolaeva). Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, pp. 108-16.
• (with contributions by Th. van den Hout) “Anatolian Hieroglyphs”. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Near East and Beyond (ed. Ch. Woods). Chicago: Oriental Institute, 2010, pp. 203-14.
• “Hittite aniye/a- ‘to do’ ”. Ex Anatolia Lux: Anatolian and Indo-European studies in honor of H. Craig Melchert on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (ed. R. I. Kim, E. Rieken, N. Oettinger, and M. J. Weiss).  Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 2010, pp. 375-84.
• (with E. Rieken) “The New Values of  Luwian Signs L 319 and L 172”. Ipamati kistamati pari tumatimis: Luwian and Hittite Studies presented to J. David Hawkins on the occasion of his 70th birthday (ed. I. Singer). Tel-Aviv: Institute of Archaeology, 2010, pp. 199-219.
•  “West Semitic god El in Anatolian hieroglyphic Transmission”. Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer (ed. Y. Cohen et al.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, рp. 385-98.  
• “Two Armenian Etymologies”. Giorgi Melikishvili Memorial Volume (ed. I. Tatishvili et al.). Tbilisi: Logos, 2009, pp. 266-72. 
• (with A. Kassian) “Muršili II’s Prayer to Telibinu”. Tabularia Hethaeorum: hethitologische Beiträge Silvin Košak zum 65th Geburtstag (ed. D. Groddek and M. Zorman). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007, pp. 423-54.
• (with Y. Yoshida)  “The Sogdian fragments of  Sam­ghāta Sūtra in the German Turfan Collection”. Languages of Iran: Past & Present. A Volume of Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil MacKenzie (ed. D. Weber). Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2005, pp. 239-268.
• “Carian monument”.  Hr̥dā manasā. Сборник статей к семидесятилетию со дня рождения Леонарда Георгиевича Герценберга (ed. N. Kazanskij). Saint-Petersburg: Nauka. 2005, pp 240-251.
• (with A. Kassian) “DUTU-AŠ in Hittite Texts”. Šarnikzel. Hethitologische Studien gewidmet an Emil Orgetorix Forrer (ed. D. Groddek and S. Rössle). Dresden: Technische Universität Dresden, 2004, pp. 395-407.
• (with A. Kassian). “The reflexes of IE initial clusters in Hittite”. Anatolian Languages (ed. V. Shevoroshkin and P. Sidwell). AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 6. Canberra: Association for the History of Language, 2002, pp. 10-49.
• “Nugae Luvicae”. Anatolian Languages (ed. V. Shevoroshkin and P. Sidwell). AHL Studies in the Science and History of Language 6. Canberra: Association for the History of Language, 2002, pp. 189-209.
• “Labyrinth for tyrants”. Studia Linguarum 3(1) (Gs. A. A. Korolev). Moscow: Languages of Slavonic Culture, 2002, pp 93-116.

Papers in Conference Proceedings:

• “Indo-European mā ‘to grow’”. Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология. XIV. чтения памяти И.М. Тронского (ed. N.N. Kazanskij et al.). St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010, pp. 478-92.
• “Anaptyxis in Hitt. *spand- ‘to libate’: One More Case of Luvian Influence on New Hittite”. Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология. XIII. чтения памяти И.М. Тронского (ed. N.A. Bondarko and N.N. Kazanskij). St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2009, pp. 545-57.
• “Luwian Migrations in Light of Linguistic Contacts”. Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks, and their neighbors (ed. B. J. Collins et al.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008, pp. 123-34.
• “The Origin of Luvian Possessive Adjectives”. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual UCLA IE conference (ed. K. Jones-Bley et al.). Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2008, pp. 193-217.  
• “Head-noun Ellipsis in Hittite and Elsewhere: A Study in Recoverability Conditions”. CLS 40-2: The Panels / Papers from the panels of the fortieth annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (ed. N. Adams et al.). Chicago Linguistic Society 2008, pp. 37-53.   
• “Prehistoric Contacts between Hittite and Luwian: the Case of Reflexive Pronouns”.  Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA IE conference, Los-Angeles, October 27-28, 2005 (ed. K. Jones-Bley et al.). Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2006, pp. 77-106. 
• “Marriage Sogdian Style”. Iranistik in Europa - gestern, heute, morgen (ed. H. Eichner  et al.). Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2006, pp. 307-44.  
• “Nugae Sogdicae II”. Turfan Revisited – The First Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road (ed. D. Durkin-Meisterernst et al.).  Berlin: D. Reimer. 2004,  pp. 420-4