Hoffner and Melchert’s long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual examples. Moreover, the authors take into account a vast array of studies on all aspects of the Hittite language. In the five decades since the publication of the second edition of Johannes Friedrich’s Hethitisches Elementarbuch (1960), our knowledge of Hittite grammar has become more detailed and nuanced, especially because of the number of new texts available and the growing body of secondary literature. This first volume in the LANE series fills a serious gap and offers a comprehensive reference for decades to come. The second volume is a tutorial that consists of a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for the student to translate. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and provides extensive notes. The printed grammar volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM that contains the entire text of the grammar and tutorial in searchable, cross-referenced, and hyperlinked form.

The second volume of Hoffner and Melchert's Grammar, this tutorial consists of a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for the student to translate. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and provides extensive notes. To get maximum use out of the Tutorial, we recommend purchasing the Grammar, which also contains a CD-ROM of both texts with hyperlinks.

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies. Brian Agbayani and Chris Golston: Phonological Movement in Greek and Latin; Vaclav Blaek: On 'horse' in Slavic; Chiara Bozzone: New Perspectives on Formularity; Andrew Miles Byrd: Motivating Sievers' Law; Jose L. Garcia Ramon: Reconstructing IE Lexicon and Phraseology: Inherited Patterns and Lexical Renewal; Adam Hyllested: The Precursors of Celtic and Germanic; Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Distributive Numerals in Tocharian B and Balto-Slavic; Paul Kiparsky: Compositional vs. Paradigmatic Approaches to Accent and Ablaut; Melanie Malzahn: All Indo-European Compounds Are Derived from a Common Origin: New Evidence for a Darwinian View of IE Nominal Compounding; Alexander Nikolaev: Time to Gather Stones Together: Greek la: as and Its Indo-European Background; Birgit Anette Olsen: Martinet's Rule of Laryngeal Hardening: A Reappraisal; Jens Elmegard Rasmussen: Some Debated Hittite Verbs: Marginalia to Recent Scholarship; Kazuhiko Yoshida: 1st Singular Iterated Mediopassive Endings in Anatolian

The Program in Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsors an Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The Conference, held on campus every fall, welcomes participation by linguists, philologists, and others engaged in all aspects of Indo-European studies. Contents: Chundra Cathcart: RUKI in the Nuristani Languages: An Assessment; Michael Ellsworth: The First Palatalization of Greek; Randall Gordon: Verbal Arguments and the Verbal Noun in Old Irish; Dieter Gunkel and Kevin Ryan: Hiatus Avoidance and Metrification in the Rigveda; Gary Holland: Active and Passive in Hittite Infinitival Constructions; Mattyas Huggard: On Wh-(Non)-Movement and Internal Structures of the Hittite Preposed Relative Clause; Alexander Lubotsky: The Origin of Sanskrit Roots of the Type s?v- 'to sew', d?v- 'to play dice', with an Appendix on Vedic i-Perfects; H. Craig Melchert: The PIE Verb for 'to pour' and Medial *h3 in Anatolian; Gregory Nagy: The Aeolic Component of Homeric Diction; Kanehiro Nishimura: On the Chronology of Vowel Contraction in Latin Marc Pierce: The Status of the ONSET PRINCIPLE in Early Germanic; Ryan Platte: Pindaric Mythopoesis; Ryan Sandell: The Morphophonology of Reduplicated Presents in Vedic and Indo-European; Christopher Wilhelm: The Aeneid and Italian Prehistory