Hittite Anaphora

Two Case Studies

  • Andrej V. Sideltsev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.84.1.75-104
Keywords: Hittite, correlatives, relative sentences, anaphora, clitic doubling, immediate anaphora

Abstract

 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 seemingly redundant structure of an enclitic pronoun + full NP in its canonical position. It is argued that the parallel syntactic behaviour of all three constructions provides evidence that distinguishes some cases of enclitic pronoun + full NP from appositions, allowing them to be considered as a taxonomically distinct category, i.e., clitic doubling.

 The second part of the paper deals with non-standard anaphora in relative clauses. It explores the occasional associate anaphoric relationship between the relative phrase and its correlate (bridging) in a cross-linguistic perspective. It is shown that this non-standard anaphora provides additional evidence that Hittite relative sentences are not standard but rather that they constitute a separate taxonomic category, i.e., correlatives.

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Author Biography

Andrej V. Sideltsev

ANDREJ SIDELTSEV is Head of the Department of Anatolian and Celtic Languages, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, as well as senior researcher at MGGU and RGGU. His PhD dissertation (Institute of Linguistics, 1999) was “Hittite -ske-verbs against the Indo-European Background.” A. Sideltsev’s work deals with Hittite and other languages of Asia Minor, originally within the comparative Indo-European linguistics and lately from typological and formal perspective. Recently, his research interest has been in the Hittite syntax: clause structure, verb movement, relative and indefinite pronouns. His major contributions to the field include “Hittite Clause Architecture.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d‘archéologie orientale 109 (2015): 79–112; “Enclitic -(m)a, clause architecture and the prosody of focus in Hittite.” Indogermanische Forschungen 120 (2015): 209–54 (with M. Molina); “Proleptic Pronouns in Middle Hittite.” Babel und Bibel 4, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns (2010): 211–48.

Published
2016-05-04
How to Cite
Sideltsev, A. V. (2016). Hittite Anaphora: Two Case Studies. Archiv orientální, 84(1), 75-104. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.84.1.75-104
Issue
Vol. 84 No. 1 (2016)
Section
Research Article

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