Grupo de Investigación

Estudos Clásicos e Medievais

USC (Santiago/Lugo)

Grupo de Investigación

Estudos Clásicos e Medievais

USC (Santiago / Lugo)

The Research Group “Classic and Medieval Studies” at the USC (GI-1908) is formed by researchers on Greek and Latin texts at the Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology at the University of Santiago (in its campuses of Santiago de Compostela and Lugo)
Since 2015 is a Competitive Reference Group recognized by the Xunta de Galicia. This website is intended to serve as a way of communicating research results, as a presentation space of its activities and as a space for connection among researchers

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New Doctoral Thesis on Emotions in Hittite Texts

Tesis Doctoral Joao Paulo Galhano

On Thursday 2 March, João Paulo Galhano defended his PhD Thesis on “Hittite Emotions in Lexical and Semantic Grounds. A research into the history of emotions through the hittite records”, supervised by José Virgilio García Trabazo (Univ. of Santiago) and Nuno Simões Rodrigues (Univ. of Lisbon). The examining board, composed of doctors José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln), Alberto Bernabé Pajares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Mariona Vernet Pons (Universitat de Barcelona), awarded the thesis the grade of Outstanding cum laude.

In his research, João Paulo Galhano observes and evaluates Hittite lexical sensitivity to the semantic field of emotions. In this way, the ability to lexicalise what is modernly included under the lexical category of emotions is examined.

This is the first time that a thesis on the Hittite language has been defended at the University of Santiago. The importance of the study of Hittite lies in the fact that it is the Indo-European language with the oldest documentation of the whole linguistic group. Therefore, its study is irreplaceable for the reconstruction of the common prehistoric IE language, and therefore to know the evolution of our linguistic family.

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