Andrei V. Sideltsev
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrei V. Sideltsev plays a role.
2024 Insubordination and what happens after it: Evidence from Hittite Diachronica: Online-First Articles | Article
One of the sources of irrealis markers is former markers of conditional sentences, both protases and apodoses, both factual and counterfactual. The development, amply documented cross-linguistically, is that of insubordination: a former marker of subordination is used as an irrealis marker in… read more
2023 Relative construction in Hittite: A corpus-based case study in syntax-prosody interface Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:3, pp. 375–460 | Article
The paper proposes a novel structural analysis of Hittite determinate relative clauses on the basis of a corpus study considering a wider and fuller array of Hittite data than ever before. In Hittite, relative wh-phrases attest a wide range of linear positions: first/initial, clause-second,… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Enclitic -(m)a ‘but’ / -(y)a ‘and’ in Hittite: Losing extraordinary syntactic behavior Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015, Cennamo, Michela and Claudia Fabrizio (eds.), pp. 245–270 | Chapter
The paper deals with the syntax of two enclitic conjunctions in Hittite, -(m)a ‘but’ and -(y)a ‘and’. Their clause distribution is different in Old/Middle Hittite vs New Hittite. In Old/Middle Hittite they cliticize in the Wackernagel position, but they are delayed to the next word by nu, mān,… read more
2016 Hittite Anaphora: Two Case Studies Archív Orientální 84:1, pp. 75–104 | Article
Two aspects of anaphora in Hittite are discussed in this paper. The first is a syntactic means of marking immediate anaphora after the first mention. Besides fronting a constituent hosting -a/ma and demonstrative phrases, it is shown that this specific type of anaphora is also marked by the… read more