The Problem of the Scholarly and Late Evidence: Anatolian Glosses in Greek.

This chapter deals with a specific type of lexical evidence—that deriving from the so-called glosses— which must be taken into consideration. In previous scholarly studies, in fact, it was often mixed with direct epigraphic evidence, even though an important epistemological difference clearly exists. In our perspective, the late evidence represents the written memory of Anatolian languages in a Greek text, considering that a target language can retain the memory of a model language for a given period for a number of different reasons that must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and which include scholarly tradition.