Re: [tied] hittite nouns

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:23:20 +0000, squilluncus
<grvs@...> wrote:

>I would be grateful to know a site on the web where I can find
>paradigms for Hittite nouns.

I've only skimmed it briefly, seems to be OK:

http://o.lauffenburger.free.fr/en_index_grammaire.htm

>In Szemerényi's Einführung ... from 1980 there the conjugation of hi-
> and mi-verbs are given and discussed, but nothing about declension.
>It seems that declension is of no interest for comparative IE
>research.
>I would also be grateful if somebody could explain why Hittite
>declension is uninteresting and irrelevant.

Judge for yourself.

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