Areal features of Hittite conditionals
Consequences for the reconstruction of Indo-European
Hittite conditionals exhibit some morphosyntactic peculiarities which are not yet fully understood, such as the conditional conjunction takku derived from a demonstrative plus “and”, some unexpected alternations from past to present and the irrealis particle (-)man used in hypothetical, potential and contrary-to-fact conditionals. Cross-linguistically these features are not frequent, and inheritance from Proto-Indo-European cannot be claimed. A close look into the syntax and semantics of (Peripheral) Akkadian and Sumerian reveals that they may be innovations due to language contact between Hittite and Semitic languages. This fact deserves appropriate consideration in the reconstruction of Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Hittite conditionals
- 3.
takku conditionals in Laws and omen texts
- 4.Tense alternations in counterfactuals
- 5.The modal particle (-)man
- 6.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Abbreviations
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