In order to meet the objectives of the project, the first research step consisted of a philological reading of Anatolian texts starting with the corpora of the ‘minor Anatolian languages’ (1st mill. BCE). This step aimed to make a selection of roots, suffixes and phraseological patterns that are attested in the Anatolian texts. In this way it has been possible to get an overview of Anatolian itself (1st objective). The most significant result of this phase has been published in 2017 and concerns the identification of a personal name diffused in all the best attested Anatolian languages, which also shows a semantic (but not a morphological) parallel outside of Anatolian. Then, I focused on the, in my view, more promising roots for comparison and I extended my analysis to Core IE by the comparative method (2nd objective), which enables historical linguists to reconstruct the structure of undocumented languages such as PIE. In particular, the comparative method has been applied to single root semantic developments and suffixes up to the level of phraseology, which allowed to add a stronger semantic element to the comparative linguistic analysis. In this phase the project lead to the identification of new semantic and morphological correspondences between Anatolian and some languages of Core IE, which will be published in two forthcoming papers. Moreover, the project lead to the support to the theory suggested by most archaeologists, which defines Anatolian as the first branch to split from the Proto-Indo-European. On the one hand, the identification of parallel semantic developments and, on the other hand, of certain morphological differences between Anatolian and some of the Core IE languages, which cannot be seen as independent innovations, strengthen the hypothesis whereby a significant amount of time occurred between the split of Anatolian from PIE and the split of the second IE branch from the residual PIE. In particular, the result of a study on the Anatolian Kinship lexicon and Marriage (forth.) offers some points of contact between the linguistic, literary, and archaeological findings on the Anatolian and PIE family structure. The results of the project have been disseminated and exploited: by giving a talk at 8 conferences; by submitting 3 papers (1 already published and 2 accepted for publication), 1 book chapter and 1 conference proceedings book; by organising an international conference; by undertaking two activities for the general public.
