Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
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Volume 77: Issue 2
Clitic Third in Hittite: Variation and Development
Author:
Andrei Vladimirovich Sideltsev Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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183–216
Online Publication Date:
14 Jun 2024
Publication Date:
25 Jun 2024
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2024.00399
Keywords:
Hittite; syntax; second position; clitic third; prosody
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The paper deals with one of clitic third orders in Hittite that involves later than the expected second position of the clitic -(m)a, a contrastive conjunction and discourse marker, otherwise a standard second position clitic. -(m)a is delayed beyond its common second position by clause connectives, subordinators and conjunctions with varying obligatoriness: it is obligatory with clause connectives and optional with subordinators and conjunctions. This study explores in detail the variation with subordinators and conjunctions and it argues that clitic third order in this context is an innovation. In explaining how clitic third order was triggered in this context the etymological hypothesis of Eichner (1971, 1981) is combined with the prosodic explanation of clitic third of Kloekhorst (2014) against an alternative account of Sideltsev (2019).

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