Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, PhD, is Full Professor of Historical and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy, and a scientific and editorial member of Hethitisches Wörterbuch, Munich. Her main research interests are Indo-European linguistics and culture, Hittitology, lexicography, onomastics and the Italian advertising language, history of linguistics, old writing systems, and the metalanguage of linguistics.Federico Giusfredi, PhD, is Associate Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Verona, Italy, and Principal Investigator of the Horizon 2020 ERC Project “Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact”. His research is mostly focused on the languages, philology and history of Ancient Anatolia and, more generally, on the languages and cultures of the Ancient Near East.