Preface Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Methodology and Analyses 1 Personal Names in the Old Assyrian Texts from Kanis 1.1 Dating of Texts 1.2 Old Assyrian Texts from Outside Kanis 1.3 Men's vs. Women's Names 1.4 Family Relations 1.5 Names Attested in Other Sources2 The Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names: Methodological Preliminaries 2.1 Kanisite Names 2.
2 Methodological Difficulties3 Phonological Interpretation of the Kanisite Names 3.1 The Transliteration of the Cuneiform Signs 3.2 Spelling Alternations in Names4 Identifying the Linguistic Background of the Kanisite Personal Names 4.1 The Term nuwa'um 4.2 Influence of the Local Language(s) of Kanis on Old Assyrian 4.3 Arguments for a Hittitoid Identification 4.4 Arguments for a Luwic Identification 4.5 Arguments for a Hurrian Identification 4.
6 Arguments for a Hattic Identification 4.7 Names of an Unclear Origin 4.8 Conclusions: Kanisite Hittite Part 2: Kanisite Hittite Personal Names: the Material 5 Kanisite Hittite Compound Names 5.1 The Linking -a- 5.2 The Final Elements of the Kanisite Hittite Compound Names 5.3 The Initial Elements of the Kanisite Hittite Compound Names 5.4 Summary: an Overview of Elements6 Other Kanisite Hittite Names 6.1 Relatively Certain Cases 6.
2 Less Certain Cases 6.3 Excursus: the Alleged(?) Kanisite Name labarna(s)7 Excursus 1: Kanisite asie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) and the Hittite Verbal System 7.1 asie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) 7.2 A Morphological Analysis 7.
3 asie/at and na/ikilie/at as Original Verbal Forms 7.4 Other Names in -iet / -iat8 Excursus 2: Kanisite -asue and the Feminine Gender in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European 8.1 -asu-e and PIE *-ih- 8.2 Feminine Gender in Anatolian? 8.3 The Original Function of PIE *-ih- 8.4 The Element -e in -asue: a Motion Suffix or an Agreement Marker? Part 3: The Linguistic Status of Kanisite Hittite 9 Comparing Kanisite Hittite to attusa Hittite 9.1 Epenthesis in */sp-/ 9.2 Kanisite Hitt.
-su(sar) vs. attusa Hitt. assu(sra)- 9.3 Kanisite Hitt. ispud- / supud- vs. attusa Hitt. ispant- 9.4 Kanisite Hitt.
ispun- / sapun- / supun- vs. attusa Hitt. ispant- 9.5 Two Different Dialects: Kanisite Hittite vs. attusa Hittite10 Two Hittite Dialects: Historical Reality 10.1 The Language Situation in attusa in the Early 2nd Millennium BCE 10.2 Dating the Hattic-Hittite Language Shift in attusa 10.3 The Place from Where Hittite was Introduced into attusa 10.
4 Problem: attusa Hittite is not Kanisite Hittite 10.5 Conclusions Bibliography Index.