H Craig Melchert

Biographic Data

ID712638
NAMEH Craig Melchert
GIVEN NAMESH Craig
FAMILY NAMEMelchert
SIGNATUREMELCHERT H C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ORCID0000-0003-0180-5030
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Hittite UZUmu/aḫḫ(a)r(a)i- “Flesh of the Thigh, Ham

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of Cuneiform Studies2024References: 1

    Hittite UZUmu/aḫḫ(a)r(a)i- is a body part belonging to various mammals, including humans, but almost exclusively attested as a component of cooked meat offerings to deities. New evidence supports its identification as the fleshy part of the thigh, thus English “ham” in the anatomical sense, but when served as food in Hittite removed from the thigh bone. A recent text join furnishes not only a further instance of juxtaposition with the expression …

  • Binding and Smiting

    H Craig Melchert, Ilya YakubovichARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2022

    The purpose of this paper is to offer evidence for a set of related formulaic expres- sions meaning 'bond and blow', 'of binding and smiting', and 'the substitute for binding and smiting' in Luvian cuneiform texts of the second millennium bCe. The passages where the relevant formulae are attested have resisted a coherent interpretation thus far. Our argumentation is three-pronged. First, we resort to the combinatorial method to show that these fo…

  • Hethitisch ◦̯uant- und Verwan(d)tes

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021

    Hethitisch ◦̯uant- und Verwan(d)tes: Untersuchungen zur Vertretung des indogermanischen Possessiv- suffixes *-went- in den anatolischen Sprachen. By Michael Georg Maier. Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie, vol. 42. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. Pp. xix + 304. €78

  • Accent in Hittite

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021

    Accent in Hittite: A Study in Plene Spelling, Consonant Gradation, Clitics, and Metrics. By Alwin Kloekhorst. Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, vol. 56. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. Pp. xxv + 716. €98

  • Hittite Historical Phonology after 100 Years (and after 20 Years)

    H Craig MelchertCHAPTERHrozný and Hittite2019

    On the centennial of Hrozný’s identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language I review the major issues in Hittite historical phonology, in comparison not only with his sketch of 1917 but also with my own treatment of 1994. After some methodological preliminaries and an overview of major revisions required by the last two decades of scholarship, I focus on the PIE syllabic sonorants. already tentatively concluded that their regular outcome…

  • Schrift und Schriftlichkeit

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2018

    Schrift und Schriftlichkeit: Die anatolische Hieroglyphenschrift. By Annick Payne. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. Pp. xvii + 232, illus. €68 (paper

  • Marginalia to the Myth of Telipinu

    H Craig MelchertCHAPTERAudias fabulas veteres2016

  • “Narten formations” versus “Narten roots”

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEIndogermanische Forschungen2014

    Since the existence of a PIE “acrostatic” present formation with descriptive *ḗ/é ablaut was first established by Narten (1968), there has been an ongoing debate regarding the status of this type of inflection in the overall PIE morphological system. Is it a lexically determined feature, by which certain roots consistently (at least typically) display ablaut one degree higher than “standard” roots in a given morphological category? Or do “Narten …

  • Munus amicitiae

    H Craig Melchert, Beech Stave Press et al.BOOKMunus Amicitiae2014

  • Naming Practices in Second- and First-Millennium Western Anatolia

    H Craig MelchertCHAPTERPersonal Names in Ancient Anatolia2013

    This chapter provides a systematic survey of naming practices in the Indo-European languages of Western Anatolia in the second and first millennia, showing that essentially all types known from elsewhere in Indogermania are attested: Lallwörter , theophorics, determinative compounds of various kinds, and possessive compounds (bahuvrihis). Only Kurznamen and hypocoristica are surprisingly rare. The extent to which the above types reflect inherited…

  • Hittite and Hieroglyphic Luvian arha ‘away’

    Open AccessH Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of Language Contact2013Cited by: 1References: 1

    Yakubovich (2010), in arguing convincingly that Hittite borrowed its enclitic reflexive particle from Luvian, emphasizes that this contact-induced change in the pronominal system was due not only to close and prolonged contact between speakers of the two languages, but also to the structural (in this case genetic) similarity of the respective systems (2010: 197ff.). Most discussion by Yakubovich and others has focused on Luvian influence on Hitti…

  • Indo-Europeans

    H Craig Melchert, Gregory Mcmahon et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ancient…2012

    This article presents an overview of the arrival and florescence of the Indo-European languages in Anatolia, the most famous of which is Hittite. The weight of current linguistic evidence supports the traditional view that Indo-European speakers are intrusive to Asia Minor, coming from somewhere in eastern Europe. There is a growing consensus that the differentiation among the Indo-European Anatolian languages begins at least by the mid-second mi…

  • Dative-Locative Objects of Infinitives in Anatolian

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEHistorical Linguistics2012

  • Local Adverbs in Hittite

    Open AccessH Craig MelchertARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2009

    Words expressing spatial relationships in Hittite are synchronically adverbs, not case forms of nouns as sometimes alleged. They are attested in three distinct syntactic roles: postpositions, preverbs, and freestanding adverbs. Some of these local adverbs are inherited from Proto‐Indo‐European, while others reflect petrified case forms of nouns. Postpositions from inherited local adverbs originally were construed with the dative‐locative, while t…

  • Historical linguistics

    Open AccessH Craig MelchertARTICLELanguage2009

  • Carian

    Open AccessH Craig MelchertCHAPTERAncient Languages of Asia Minor2008

    HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS The land of Caria lay during the first millennium BC in the southwest of Anatolia between Lydia and Lycia. A few dozen texts in the epichoric language, mostly very short or fragmentary, have been found in Caria itself or on objects likely to have originated there. These are dated very approximately to the fourth to third centuries BC. There is also a very fragmentary Carian–Greek bilingual from Athens, dated to th…

  • The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor

    Open AccessCalvert Watkins, H Craig Melchert et al.BOOKAncient Languages of Asia Minor2008

    This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonolog…

  • Le funzioni sintattiche degli elementi avverbiali di luogo ittiti anda(n), appa(n), katta(n), katti-, peran, para, ser, sara

    H Craig Melchert, Rita FranciaARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • Dynastic Lycia

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2002

  • Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen

    H Craig Melchert, Gerd CarlingARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

  • Sanskrit sardigrdi

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

    H. Craig Melchert, Sanskrit sárdigr̥di-, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 325-328

  • Jahre Indogermanistik in Graz

    H Craig Melchert, Michaela Ofitsch et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

  • Hittite Damnaššara- ‘Domestic’/dDamnaššareš ‘Household Deities’

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of Ancient Near Eastern…2001

  • Hittite Damnaššara- 'Domestic'/D Damnaššareš 'Household Deities

    H Craig MelchertARTICLEJournal of Ancient Near Eastern…2001

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  • Untersuchungen zur nominalen Stammbildung des Hethitischen

    H Craig Melchert, Elisabeth RiekenARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2001