Edgar H. Sturtevant

Edgar H. Sturtevant

Edgar H. Sturtevant (1875–1952) was an American linguist.

Biography

Sturtevant was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. He studied at the University of Chicago receiving there in 1901 a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Latin case forms. He became an assistant professor of classical philology at Columbia University in New York before joining the linguistics faculty at Yale University in 1923. In 1924, he was a member of the organizing committee for the founding, with Leonard Bloomfield and George M. Bolling, of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

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 chrestomacy and a glossary, formulated the so-called Sturtevant's law (doubling of consonants representing IE voiceles stops) and laid the foundations to what later became the Goetze-Wittmann law (spirantization of palatal stops before "u" as the focal origin of the Centum-Satem isogloss). The 1951 revised edition of his grammar is still authoritative today.

Bibliography

*Surtevant, Edgar H. (1931). "Hittite glossary: words of known or conjectured meaning, with Sumerian ideograms and Accadian words common in Hittite texts". "Language", Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 3-82., "Language Monograph" No. 9.
*cite journal | author=Sturtevant, Edgar H. | title=The Development of the Stops in Hittite
journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=52|pages=1–12|year=1932 | doi=10.2307/593573
*Sturtevant, Edgar H. A. (1933, 1951). "Comparative Grammar of the Hittite Language". Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First edition: 1933.
*Sturtevant, Edgar H. A. (1940). "The Indo-Hittite laryngeals". Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America.
*cite journal | author=Sturtevant, Edgar H. | title=Evidence for voicing in Hittite g
journal=Language |volume=16|pages=81–87|year=1940 | doi=10.2307/408942 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-8507(194004%2F06)16%3A2%3C81%3AEFVIIG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M]
*Sturtevant, Edgar H. A., & George Bechtel (1935). "A Hittite Chrestomathy". Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America.


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