• New Phrygian (-)τετικμενος, Hittite tekri and other descendants of PIE *dei̯ ḱ-* 

  Nikolaev, Alexander (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2023)

• A note on καρπάλιμος ‘swift’ 

  Kölligan, Daniel (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2023)

• The prehistory of Ossetic verbal inflection (II): The copula 

  Kim, Ronald I. (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2023)

• The heuristic of Economy and Proto-Iranian stop clusters 

  Karim, Shuan Osman (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2023)

• On the Origins of the Hieroglyphic Luwian Writing System: The Chronological Problem 

  Simon, Zsolt (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

• The Anatolian Subgroup of Indo-European in the Light of the “Minor” Languages 

  Melchert, H. Craig (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

• Some remarks on multiple-term case labels: the Hittite dative-locative 

  Frantíková, Dita (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

• A “new” Semitic designation of ‘snake’ 

  Blažek, Václav (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

• On the Old Assyrian Letter Heading. Playing with Social Hierarchy for Rhetorical Effect 

  Adelhofer, Matthias (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

• The egg of the feet? Using the Sumerogram NUNUZ in the Amarna Correspondence 

  Tavernier, Jan (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2021)

• Languages, Peoples, and Power: Some Near Eastern Perspectives 

  Santini, Marco (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2021)

• Remarks on the left periphery in the medieval Brittonic languages 

  Eska, Joseph F. (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

  This paper proposes that the clausal configuration of affirmative root clauses in the medieval Brittonic languages is best characterised as a token of a relaxed verb-second (V2) language, in which the verb can appear as ...

• Death of an Old Assyrian Salesman 

  Anderson, Adam G. (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2020)

  Were it not for the death of the salesman, it would have been an otherwise mundane story. What made Death of a Salesman unique, was that it dealt respectfully with the decline of a generation, juxtaposed against the death ...

• Ein verkannter Beitrag der Prager Indogermanistik zur nominalen Wortbildung (Zur unpublizierten Dissertation von Jaromír Jedlička) 

  Kurzová, Helena (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2019)

  The unpublished dissertation of Jaromír Jedlička, O zvláštním případu parallelismu suffixů v jazycích indoevropských [On a Special Case of Suffix Parallelism in Indo-European Languages], Prague 1894 (178 pp.) investigated ...

• Spheres of interest: Hollow clay balls at the dawn of ancient Near Eastern history 

  Charvát, Petr (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2019)

  This paper discusses hollow clay spheres containing clay symbols (“tokens”) from sites of the prehistoric and early historic Near East. A list of them is provided, and an interpretation as information conveyors to sites ...

• Index of the verb forms in the Prague collection of Cappadocian tablets 

  Janský, Martin (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2019)

  When asked about Bedřich Hrozný, most laypeople with some knowledge of history will associate him with the decipherment of the Hittite language. Only a few will recall his other major achievement of great importance for ...

• Gutturals in phonetic terms 

  Hedánek, Jiří (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2018)

  “Guttural” is a vaguely or variably defined term in the phonology of ancient Semitic languages, especially Tiberian Hebrew. It can include laryngeals, pharyngeals, epiglottals, uvulars, and sometimes postvelars; pharyngealized ...

• Comparative perspectives on bee law in Indo-European 

  Joseph, Brian D. (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2018)

  An illuminating comparison can be made between Early Irish bee law, as reflected in the Bechbretha, and the bee section of the archaic Albanian law code, Chapter 53 of the Kanun of Lek Dukagjin, with reference as well to ...

• Yaghnobi: an example of a language in contact 

  Novák, Ľubomír (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2018)

  Yaghnobi, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in northern Tajikistan, shares many important features with Sogdian and is generally believed to be descended from a nonliterary dialect of Sogdian. The language has historically ...

• “Place in my hands the inexhaustible craft of medicine!” Physicians and healing at the royal court of Esarhaddon 

  Šašková, Kateřina (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Praha, 2018)

  The medicine of ancient Mesopotamia has long been the topic of investigation, but the texts explored within this field are mainly “handbooks” for persons practising medicine and lists of diseases. This medical literature, ...

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