Petra Goedegebuure

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Petra Goedegebuure Assistant Professor of Hittitology	Office: The Oriental Institute 1155 East 58th Street, 306 Chicago, IL 60637 773-702-9550 Fax: 773-702-9853
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 2003. Teaching at Chicago since 2006.	Email: pgoedegebuure@uchicago.edu
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Hittite and Luwian Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Information Structure, Historical Pragmatics, Functional Discourse Grammar, Early Hittite History. Academic contributor to the Chicago Hittite Dictionary.

Education

2003 Ph.D., awarded cum laude, University of Amsterdam. Dissertation: Reference, Deixis and Focus in Hittite. The demonstratives ka- “this”, apa- “that” and asi “yon”.
1994 M.A. North-West Semitics, awarded cum laude, University of Amsterdam, department of Semitic Languages & Cultures. Thesis: Werken met Woorden in Karatepe (Working with verbs in Karatepe).
1993 M.A. Hittitology, awarded cum laude, University of Amsterdam, department of Anatolian Languages & Cultures. Thesis: De instructie voor de commandant van het grensdistrict. Een nieuwe bewerking van CTH 261.3. (The Instruction for the Commander of a Border district. A new edition of CTH 261.3).
1987 Propedeuse Astronomy, awarded cum laude, University of Amsterdam, department of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy.

Awards & Grants

2006 - 2009 Grant from the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Awarded to research proposal “ Exploring the Outer Limits: from Sentence to Discourse in Hittite”. €200,000. Declined for position at the Oriental Institute.
1994 - 2000 Full research grant, University of Amsterdam. Scholarship for six years of graduate study.
1996 Travel grant, Stimuleringsgelden voor internationalisering, the University of Amsterdam and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek. For participation at a conference in Turkey. ƒ1,040.
1995 Travel grant, awarded by the University of Amsterdam. For a short study visit to the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. ƒ935.
1989 - 1994 Grant from the Groesbeek van Assenbroek foundation. Fellowship for five years of undergraduate study.

Positions

2006 - present Assistant Professor in Hittitology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
2006 Post-doctoral Researcher, Leiden University.
2004 - 2006 Lecturer Anatolian Languages and Cultures, Leiden University.
2003 - 2006 Lecturer evening courses Hittite language and Culture, Leiden University.
2001 Lecturer Classical Hebrew, University of Amsterdam.
2000 - 2001 Teacher Mathematics, Vossius Gymnasium, Amsterdam.
1997 - 1999 Supervising of M.A. students Hebrew studies, University of Amsterdam.
1997 Lecturer Classical Hebrew, University of Amsterdam.

Publications

Books

(in prep) The use of demonstratives in Hittite: deixis, reference and focus ( Studien zu den Boghazköy-Texten 49). Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden.

Chapters in books

(2006) ‘The Bilingual Testament of Hattusili I’. In: Mark Chavalas (ed.), The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation. (p. 222 – 228). Blackwell Publishing.
(2006) ‘The Proclamation of Telipinu’. In: Mark Chavalas (ed.), The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation (p. 228 – 235, 250 – 252). Blackwell Publishing.

Refereed journal articles

(in prep) ‘The Luwian Demonstratives of Space and Manner’. For a Festschrift.
(subm) ‘Hattian origins of Hittite religious concepts: the syntax of ‘to drink (to) a deity’ and other phrases’. For Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions. 8pp.
(accepted) ‘Focus Structure and Q-word Questions in Hittite’. In: Evelien Keizer and Mirjam van Staden (eds.), The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar. Thematic issue of Linguistics. 19 pp.
(2002) ‘KBo 17.17+: Remarks on an Old Hittite Royal Substitution Ritual’. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 2, pp. 61-73.

Articles

(subm) ‘Central Anatolian languages and language communities in the Colony period: The Luwian substrate of Hattian and the independent Hittites’. In: Acts of the Third Leiden Symposium ‘ Anatolia and the Jazira during the Old Assyrian Period’, December 15, 2005. 38 pp.
(in press) ‘The Hieroglyphic Luwian demonstrative ablative-instrumentals zin and apin.’ In: Acts of the VIth International Congress of Hittitology, September 6, 2005, Rome. 18 pp.
(2007) ‘ “Let only Nesa become populous!”, and more. Philological notes on Old Hittite’ . In: Detlev Groddek and Marina Zorman (eds.), Tabularia Hethaeorum. Hethitologische Beiträge, Silvin Ko åak zum 65. Geburtstag. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, pp. 305-312.
(2007) ‘The original function of the Hittite sentence particle - kan: topic reinforcer or marker of spatial relations?’ Review article of Jacqueline Boley, Dynamics of Transformation in Hittite. The Hittite Particles - kan, -asta and -san. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 97), Innsbruck 2000. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis 64/1-2, pp. 31-63.
(2006) ‘A New Proposal for the Reading of the Hittite numeral ‘1’: sia-’. In Theo van den Hout (ed.), The Life and Times of Hattusili III and Tudhaliya IV. (Festschrift Han de Roos) (p. 165 - 188). Publications de l'Institut Historique-Archéologique Néerlandais de Stamboul: Leiden.
(2004) ‘Troonsopvolging in het Oud-Hettitische Rijk: patrilineair, matrilineair of avunkulair?’ (Succession to the Throne in the Old Hittite Kingdom: patrilinear, matrilinear or avuncular?). Phoenix 50/1, pp. 5-21.
(2004) ‘The Hittite 3 rd person/distal demonstrative asi (uni, eni etc.)’. Die Sprache. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 43/1 (2002/2003), pp. 1-32.
(2002) ‘Reinheid bij de Hettieten’ (Purity in Hittite Society). Phoenix 48/2, pp. 93-103.
(1998) ‘The Hieroglyphic Luwian Particle rel-i-pa’. In: Acts of the IIIrd International Congress of Hittitology, Çorum, September 16-22, 1996, pp. 233-245.

Edited Volumes

(2002) Reinheid in het Oude Nabije Oosten (Purity in the Ancient Near East), Thematic issue of Phoenix 48, 48 pp.

Reviews

(2006) Review of H. Craig Melchert (ed.), The Luwians (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/68). Brill: Leiden, Boston 2003. In Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49.3, pp. 364-366.
(1999) Review H.A. Hoffner, The Laws of the Hittites: A Critical Edition. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.4, pp. 705-707.

Conference Talks and Invited Lectures

(2007) Keynote lecture: Linguistics and long-extinct languages: a case study of Focus in Hittite. September 24, 2007. Pragmatische Kategorien. Form, Funktion und Diachronie . Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Marburg, 24.-26. September 2007.
(2007) Invited lecture:The syntactic alignment of Hattian. July 25, 2007, Workshop Limited Corpus Languages, Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 53, Moscow.
(2007) Hittite-Hattian contacts. March 23, 2007, Historical Linguistics Discussion Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
(2007) On Hittite and Linguistics. January 17, 2007, Franke Institute, University of Chicago.
(2006) De zekerheid van de toekomst in het Hettitisch: relatieve bijzinnen en onvoorwaardelijkheid (Certainty of the future in Hittite: relative clauses and unconditionality). Hettitologen-convent, February 7, 2006, University of Amsterdam.
(2006) Frames in Hittite . Functional Discourse Grammar Colloquium, March 10, 2006, University of Amsterdam.
(2005) The languages and peoples of Central Anatolia. The Third Leiden Symposium ‘Anatolia and the Jazira during the Old Assyrian Period’, (Organized by the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Mesopotamia and Anatolia (TCMA), Leiden University), December 15, 2005. To be published in the conference proceedings.
(2005) The Hieroglyphic Luwian pronominal demonstrative ‘ablatives’ zin ‘from this’ and apin ‘from that’. The VIth International Congress of Hittitology, September 6, 2005, Rome.
(2004) The use of demonstratives in Hittite. Amsterdam Center of Language and Communication, February 20, 2004, Amsterdam.
(2004) The interpersonal level in Hittite, Functional Discourse Grammar Colloquium, February 13, 2004, University of Amsterdam.
(2002) The Demonstrative Functions of the Pronoun asi (uni, eni etc.), Vth International Congress of Hittitology, September 10, 2002, Çorum, Turkey.
(2000) Coordinatie in het Hettitisch (Coordination in Hittite). Functional Grammar seminar, March 3, 2000, University of Amsterdam.
(1999) The Use and Non-use of the Enclitic Subject Pronoun in Old Hittite, IVth International Congress of Hittitology, October 7, 1999, Würzburg, Germany.
(1998) Emfase in the Karatepe-bilingue (Fenicisch-Luwisch) (Emphasis in the Karatepe bilingual (Phoenician-Luwian)). Institute for Mediterranean Studies, October 16, 1998, Amsterdam.
(1998) De ‘werkelijke’ functie van het Anatolische pronomen relativum (The ‘real’ function of the Anatolian relative pronoun). Colloquium of the Department of Indo-European Studies, February 19, 1998, Leiden University.
(1996) The Hieroglyphic Luwian Particle rel-i-pa, IIIrd International Congress of Hittitology, September, Çorum, Turkey.

Professional activities

Editorial activities

2000 - 2006 Member of the editorial board of Phoenix, Bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap EX ORIENTE LUX.
1993 - 1995 Corrector of the Dictionary of the North-West-Semitic Inscriptions, by prof. J. Hoftijzer & dr K. Jongeling. Brill: Leiden.

Seminar organisation

2002 Organisation of international seminar ‘Dreams in the Hittite world and the rest of the Ancient Near East in the 2 nd millennium B.C.’. Universiteit Leiden, NINO. January 17, 2002.

Boards & advisory committees

2005 - 2006 Member of the Benelux Board of the scholarly society het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap EX ORIENTE LUX.
2000 - 2006 Chair EX ORIENTE LUX, division Amsterdam.
1999 - 2000 Secretary EX ORIENTE LUX, division Amsterdam.
1997 - 2003 Graduate student member of the University of Amsterdam in the advisory body to the University Library of Amsterdam.
1996 - 1998 Vice-President, then President of the Board of Graduate Students of the University of Amsterdam.
1995 - 1998 Graduate student member of the Sub-committee on Research, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam.