Edgar Howard Sturtevant
Edgar Howard Sturtevant | |
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Born | |
Died | July 1, 1952 | (aged 77)
Known for | Indo-Hittite hypothesis Founding member of the Linguistic Society of America |
Children | Julian M. Sturtevant |
Academic background | |
Education | Indiana University University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Sub-discipline | Hittite language |
Institutions | Columbia University Yale University |
Edgar Howard Sturtevant (March 7, 1875 – July 1, 1952) was an American
Biography
Sturtevant was born in
Besides research on Native American languages and field work on the Modern American English dialects, he is the father of the Indo-Hittite hypothesis, first formulated in 1926, based on his seminal work establishing the Indo-European character of Hittite (and the related Anatolian languages), with Hittite exhibiting more archaic traits than the normally reconstructed forms for Proto-Indo-European.
He authored the first scientifically acceptable Hittite grammar with a
Sturtevant was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1939 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1940.[2][3]
Sturtevant died in Branford, Connecticut. His son, Julian M. Sturtevant, was a chemist and molecular biophysicist at Yale University.[4]
Bibliography
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1931). Hittite glossary: words of known or conjectured meaning, with Sumerian ideograms and Accadian words common in Hittite texts. Language, Volume 7, Number 2, pages 3–82., Language Monograph No. 9.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1932). "The Development of the Stops in Hittite". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 52 (1). Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 52, Number 1: 1–12. JSTOR 593573.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. A. (1933, 1951). Comparative Grammar of the Hittite Language. Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951 (with E. Adelaide Hahn). First edition: 1933.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. A., & George Bechtel (1935). A Hittite Chrestomathy. Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1940). The pronunciation of Greek and Latin. 2d. ed. Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, 1940. Review at Whatmough, J., "The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin by Edgar H. Sturtevant", Classical Philology, Volume 36, Number 4 (October 1941), pages 409–411.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1940). "Evidence for voicing in Hittite g". Language. 16 (2). Language, Volume 16, Number 2: 81–87.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1942). Linguistic Change: An Introduction to the Historical Study of Language. New York: Stechert.
- Sturtevant, Edgar H. A. (1942). The Indo-Hittite laryngeals. Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America.
References
- "Sturtevant, Edgar Howard". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970–1979).
- Hoffner, Harry and Melchert, H. Craig, 2008. A Grammar of the Hittite Language, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.
External links
- Edgar Howard Sturtevant at the Database of Classical Scholars
- ^ Gordon, Laura. "STURTEVANT, Edgar Howard". dbcs.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ^ "Edgar Howard Sturtevant". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ^ "Yale Bulletin and Calendar". archives.news.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-28.