LING 4900/6900

The synchronic and diachronic grammar of an older Indo-European language. Possible offerings include Avestan, Hittite, Lithuanian, or topics such as Indo-European phonology, morphology, or syntax.

For the Spring 2026 semester, this course will focus on Hittite:

Known to be Indo-European since 1915, the Hittite language of central Anatolia represents a later stage of a branch of the family that may have broken away from the original proto-speech community up to a thousand years earlier than any of its other branches. This class will study the grammar of Hittite in and will involve readings in Hittite texts in transliteration. At the end of the course students will be able to read transliterated Hittite texts.