THE MACRO-COMPARATIVE JOURNAL
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Volume
3 No. 2
December
2012
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CONTENTS
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A Survey of the Hatti Language from an
Indo-European Perspective
Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The paper is a phonological
introduction to Hatti together with a compilation of Hatti words with
well-established meanings and a comparative survey of Hatti morphology. It is
shown that Hatti is genetically related to Proto-Indo-European.
About the names of Kassite kings
Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The Kassites were a people of the
Ancient Near East. The aim of the paper is to propose etymological meanings for
the names of Kassite kings on the basis of what little is known of Kassite with
the help of Hurrian, which is one of the closest relatives of Kassite.
A Tentative Etymological Glossary
of Etruscan
Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The paper is a linguistic and
historical introduction to Etruscan together with a compilation of Etruscan
words with well-established meanings. It is shown that the Etruscan vocabulary
is made up of Hurro-Urartean cognates, together with Indo-European and Semitic
loanwords.
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Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The paper first makes an
assessment of a number of arguments about the linguistic or purely semiotic
status of the Indus Valley Signs. According to the author it is hard to believe
that a well organized society with precise weights could not have some kind of
writing system at the same time. It is shown that the basic units of linguistic
description: words, phonemes and syllables, can be distinguished by their
statistical signatures. As a consequence, if a writing system is embedded in
the Indus Signs corpus then it should be a syllabary with a high number of
syllables (several hundreds as in Dravidian syllabaries or the Yi
syllabary).