The paper deals with the syntax of man "if", namma "then", nasma "or", perfectivising kasa/ kasma, relative and indefinite pronouns as well as some subordinators in Hittite against the background of other Indo-European languages, particularly Latin and Greek. Sideltsev, or Phonology? Proclitics, Enclitics, and Stress in Hittite* + Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) t Moscow State University corresponding author: A. Andrej Sideltsev+, Maria Molina+, Alexius Belov t It is particularly noteworthy that from the IE perspective Hittite is radically different from Narrow IE languages (like Old Greek) where indefinite pronouns are normally unstressed: all the Hittite data which are at first sight similar to Narrow IE turn out to be secondary independent innovations of Hittite and cannot serve as the basis of Indo-Hittite reconstruction. A purely syntactic account is put forward to fully capture the data. We review the proposals and argue that purely phonological rules are highly unlikely for any of the constituents. It has been recently proposed that their position in the clause and syntactic behaviour are either partially or fully determined by their being either proclitics or enclitics. The paper deals with the syntax of mān “if”, namma “then”, našma “or”, perfectivising kāša/ kāšma, relative and indefinite pronouns as well as some subordinators in Hittite against the background of other Indo-European languages, particularly Latin and Greek.
0 kommentar(er)
