LuwGramm: A Grammar of the Luwian Language

卢维亚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年之间有书面证明。它属于印欧语系的安纳托利亚语系，因此是赫梯人的近亲。它用两种文字证明：安纳托利亚象形文字和美索不达米亚楔形文字。对卢维亚语的解读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公共意见的阶段。因此，值得注意的是，除了有50年历史的意大利语语法外，没有对卢维亚语的全面语法描述，这一语法仅限于象形文字文本，并早于破译这些文本的主要步骤。本世纪出版的卢维亚语语法调查都不超过100页，强调其语法结构的各个方面。卢维亚语语法研究项目的主要目的是编写一本卢维亚语的参考语法，对古代文明的语言学家和专家同样有用。语法的核心应该包括对卢维亚语语音、词法和句法的同步描述，并用非语言学家可以理解的语言编写。由于对卢维亚语的解读还远远不够完善，因此增加了书目部分，以反映对卢维亚语语法中更具争议性的方面的不同意见。比较历史部分将迎合历史学家和印欧语言学专家的兴趣。预计我们的联合工作将导致新的发现，因此，计划项目的额外目标是准备6-8篇专门研究卢维语语法具体问题的研究论文。LuwGramm项目被认为是基于语料库的语法研究。拟议手册的一个创新特点是与卢维亚语的计算机语料库相结合。我们打算以纸质书的形式出版语法及其电子版。在音译和转录(形式、从句等)中引用的所有例子。将被链接到带注释的卢维亚语语料库中的各个标记。这种语料库已经在(http://web-corpora.net/LuwianCorpus/search/)，项目框架内编写，但将根据在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所引用形式的更广泛的背景，而语法的文本可以更紧凑，而不需要过多的注释。

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.