Fenomeni di interferenza greco-anatolica nel II millennio a.C.: l'ittito come mediatore tra mondo indoeuropeo e mondo non indoeuropeo

The present paper aims at investigating the potential role played by Hittite as intermediary between the Semitic languages (particularly Akkadian, in the light of its prestige, its official character and its wide diffusion), and Mycenaean Greek. The interference phenomena seem to occur at a twofold level: on the one hand, we can analyze lexemes directly borrowed from Hittite into Mycenaean (e.g. Myc. ka-ko and di-pa); on the other hand, we can record terms with a Semitic derivation on which Hittite acts as an intermediary (e.g. Myc. ku-pe-ra, ku-wa-no, ke-ra-so, e-re-pa). Although the geographical contiguity between Semitic and Anatolian languages and that between Anatolian and Mycenaean is already in itself a diatopic indicator, which allows us to evaluate the intermediary role played by Hittite between some Greek terms and their more distant Semitic antecedents, this hypothesis can also be corroborated by the linguistic analysis

Il contributo si propone di dimostrare il ruolo di mediazione svolto dall'ittito tra l'accadico, lingua semitica, e il greco-miceneo, lingua indoeuropea, nel corso del II millennio a.C. Analizzando strutturalmente i prestiti anatolici in miceneo, sarebbe possibile, secondo le autrici, retrodatare l'ipotesi di un contatto greco-anatolico.