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Edgar Howard Sturtevant

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and a glossary, formulated the so-called Sturtevant's law (the doubling of consonants representing Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops) and laid the foundations to what later became the
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Hittite glossary: words of known or conjectured meaning, with Sumerian ideograms and Accadian words common in Hittite texts
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languages and field work on the Modern American English dialects, he is the father of the
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in 1923. In 1924, he was a member of the organizing committee for the founding, with
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hypothesis, first formulated in 1926, based on his seminal work establishing the
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Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1932). "The Development of the Stops in Hittite".
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He authored the first scientifically acceptable Hittite grammar with a
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Linguistic Change: An Introduction to the Historical Study of Language
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Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1940). "Evidence for voicing in Hittite g".
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forms. He became an assistant professor of classical philology at
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Sturtevant, Edgar H. A., & George Bechtel (1935).
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(1933, 1951). 670:Indiana University Bloomington alumni 500:at the Database of Classical Scholars 314:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 7: 487:, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. 405:The pronunciation of Greek and Latin 348:, Volume 7, Number 2, pages 3–82., 630:People from Jacksonville, Illinois 14: 485:A Grammar of the Hittite Language 655:Linguists of Anatolian languages 640:Linguists from the United States 457:Sturtevant, Edgar H. A. (1942). 303:Grammar of the Hittite Language 310:American Philosophical Society 308:Sturtevant was elected to the 213:Indiana University Bloomington 1: 477:The Great Soviet Encyclopedia 450:Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1942). 402:Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1940). 340:Sturtevant, Edgar H. (1931). 245:Linguistic Society of America 223:with a dissertation on Latin 84:Linguistic Society of America 16:American linguist (1875–1952) 590:"Yale Bulletin and Calendar" 635:Columbia University faculty 459:The Indo-Hittite laryngeals 293:as the focal origin of the 691: 514:"STURTEVANT, Edgar Howard" 480:, 3rd Edition (1970–1979). 472:"Sturtevant, Edgar Howard" 219:receiving there in 1901 a 564:"Edgar Howard Sturtevant" 203:and grandson of educator 174: 112: 205:Julian Monson Sturtevant 665:Illinois College alumni 498:Edgar Howard Sturtevant 392:). First edition: 1933. 199:, the older brother of 195:Sturtevant was born in 181:Edgar Howard Sturtevant 82:Founding member of the 25:Edgar Howard Sturtevant 594:archives.news.yale.edu 397:A Hittite Chrestomathy 197:Jacksonville, Illinois 454:. 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Jacksonville, Indiana
Branford, Connecticut
Indo-Hittite
Linguistic Society of America
Sturtevant's paradox
Sturtevant's law
Julian M. Sturtevant
Indiana University
University of Chicago
Linguistics
Hittite language
Columbia University
Yale University
linguist
Jacksonville, Illinois
Alfred Sturtevant
Julian Monson Sturtevant
Illinois College
Indiana University Bloomington
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
case
Columbia University
Yale University
Leonard Bloomfield
George M. Bolling
Linguistic Society of America
Native American
Indo-Hittite
Indo-European

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