Petra Goedegebuure

Petra Goedegebuure’s research interests cover cultural and linguistic aspects of second and first millennium BCE Anatolia and Syria. Her linguistic work focuses on the meaning of word order variation and the function of case endings. Goedegebuure also works on the further decipherment of Anatolian hieroglyphs and on word meaning in Luwian, one of the indigenous languages of Anatolia. She published the monograph The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics, and Focus (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014) and is now working on a new project “Agency and Perspective.” Goedegebuure is Associate Professor of Hittitology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and senior editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary.