LuwGramm: A Grammar of the Luwian Language

卢维语是前古典安纳托利亚和叙利亚的一种语言，在公元前1500年至公元前700年之间有文字记载。它属于印欧语系的安纳托利亚群，因此代表了赫梯人的近亲。它有两种文字：安纳托利亚象形文字和美索不达米亚楔形文字。卢威语的破译是在过去的一百年里完成的，现在已经达到了对其语法结构基础的广泛共识的阶段。因此，值得注意的是，除了50年前的意大利语语法之外，没有关于卢威语的全面语法描述，而意大利语语法仅限于象形文字文本，并且在其破译的主要步骤之前。本世纪出版的Luwian语法综述都不超过100页，强调其语法结构的各个方面。LuwGramm项目的主要目的是编写一个Luwian参考语法，这对语言学家和古代文明专家同样有用。语法的核心应该包括对卢威音系、形态和句法的共时描述，并以非语言学家可以理解的语言编写。由于卢威语的破译还远未达到完美的程度，因此增加了书目部分，以反映对卢威语语法更具争议性方面的不同意见。比较历史的部分将面向两个Hittitologists和印欧语言学专家的利益。预计我们的联合工作将导致新的发现，因此，计划项目的另一个目标是准备6-8篇研究论文，致力于卢威语法的具体问题。LuwGramm项目被认为是基于语料库的语法研究。拟议的手册的一个创新特点是将其与卢威语计算机语料库相结合。我们打算出版的语法作为一本纸质书连同其电子版本。所有引用的例子都是音译和转写的（形式，条款等）。将链接到卢威语言注释语料库中的相应标记。已经在法语国家法律咨询委员会项目的框架内编制了这样一个语料库（http：//web-corpora.net/LuwianCorpus/search/），但将根据LuwGramm项目过程中达成的新解释加以修改。因此，数字版本的用户将获得引用形式的更广泛的上下文，而语法的文本可以更紧凑，没有过多的注释。

Luwian is a language of Pre-Classical Anatolia and Syria, which is attested in writing between 1500 and 700 BC. It belongs to the Anatolian group of the Indo-European family and thus represents a close relative of Hittite. It is attested in two scripts: Anatolian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform. The decipherment of the Luwian language was accomplished over the last hundred years and has now reached the stage of a broad communis opinio on the basics of its grammatical structure. it is, therefore, remarkable that there is no comprehensive grammatical description of the Luwian language, except for a fifty-year old Italian grammar, which is limited to hieroglyphic texts and predates major steps in their decipherment. The grammatical surveys of Luwian published in this century are all no more than 100 pages long and emphasize various aspects of its grammatical structure.The main purpose of the LuwGramm project is writing a reference grammar of Luwian, which could be equally useful for linguists and specialists in ancient civilizations. The core of the grammar should comprise the synchronic description of Luwian phonology, morphology and syntax and be written in a language that is understandable to non-linguists. Since the decipherment of the Luwian language is still far from being perfect, the bibliographic sections are added in order to reflect the difference of opinions on the more controversial aspects of the Luwian grammar. The comparative-historical sections will be geared to the interests of both Hittitologists and specialists in Indo-European Linguistics. It is expected that our joint work will lead to new discoveries, and therefore, the additional objective of the planned project is preparing 6-8 research papers devoted to specific problems of the Luwian grammar. The LuwGramm project is conceived as corpus-based grammatical research. An innovative feature of the proposed handbook will be its integration with the computer corpus of the Luwian language. We intend to publish the grammar as a paper book together with its electronic version. All the examples cited there in transliteration and transcription (forms, clauses, etc.) will be linked to the respective tokens in the annotated corpus of the Luwian language. Such a corpus has already been prepared within the framework of the ACLT project (http://web-corpora.net/LuwianCorpus/search/), but it will be modified in the light of the new interpretations reached in the course of the LuwGramm project. Thus, the users of the digital version will obtain access to the broader context of the cited forms, while the text of the grammar can be made more compact without excessive annotations.