Corpus of the lycian and hieroglyphic luwian kinship lexicon

Resumen

This dissertation provides a philological corpus of the kinship lexicon attested in the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian sources with an evaluation of their semantic, morphological and epigraphic aspects. The present study is based on an updated compilation of the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions and attempts to describe, synchronically and diachronically, the linguistic nature of the terms under discussion. The analysis resorts to the Comparative Method of Historical Linguistics, as well as to the internal comparison of the different indicators that each type of composition presents. Research on kinship lexicon is especially fruitful in terms of addressing the fragmentary condition of the Lycian and Luwian languages. This is due to the significant volume of attestations that their corpora present concerning the family vocabulary, which turns it into a suitable material for applying combinatory analysis. Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian languages are mostly contained in compositions of funerary and administrative nature, which greatly comprises vocabulary of the family semantic domain. On the one hand, Lycian is attested during the 5th and 4th BC in the south-west Anatolia in funerary epitaphs and some dynastic propaganda texts. On the other, Hieroglyphic Luwian was used during both the second and the first millennium BC, roughly from the 14th to the 7th BC, in a vast part of Anatolia and Syria, and its inscriptions contain decrees and commemorative or funerary compositions. Both the common dialectal identity as Luwic languages and the similarity of the textual genres turn the investigation of the family vocabulary into an insightful material for contributing to the better understanding of these languages. Besides, the investigation contributes to the genealogical information of the rulers that commissioned the inscriptions, useful for the reconstruction of the History of this period, as well as with sociological aspects of the family structure, especially regarding the Lycian sources.