Syntax or Phonology? Proclitics, Enclitics and Stress in Hittiteстатья
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Аннотация: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. It has been re-cently proposed that their position in the clause and syntactic behaviour are either partiallyor fully determined by their being either proclitics or enclitics. We review the proposals andargue that purely phonological rules are highly unlikely for any of the constituents. A purelysyntactic account is put forward to fully capture the data. It is particularly noteworthy thatfrom the IE perspective Hittite is radically different from Narrow IE languages (like OldGreek) where indefinite pronouns are normally unstressed: all the Hittite data which are atfirst sight similar to Narrow IE turn out to be secondary independent innovations of Hittiteand cannot serve as the basis of Indo-Hittite reconstruction.