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Title: Not as good as it could have been
Review: This book was definitely for beginning Hittite. As a linguist, I was disappointed with how it began its introduction to the Hittite language. The authors gave a decent intro. to grammar, but not to the mechanics of the cuneiform. All of the conjugations and declensions were transliterations, leaving the student with no way to deal with actual Hittite texts. Further, many of the linguistic tidbits that the authors offered amounted to "that's just the way it is." Rarely do such excuses give the only available explanation; in spite of potential evidence that would avoid such sidestepping, the authors did not comment on more concrete theories.To limn: this book is okay as a beginning, as the barest beginning, but you'll have to spend hundreds of dollars on additional texts and do your own linguistic analyses if you're serious about learning the language.
