<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The Hittite grammar is characterized by a morphosyntactic split that affects the behaviour of the inflectional classes of Noun phrases (DPs). While a singular neuter transitive subject is marked by /-anza/suffix, commons DPs end with an /-š/mark. In addition, intransitive neuter subjects and neuter objects pattern in the same way, marked by /-ø/, while in commons the object role is marked by an /-n/ ending, which distinguishes it from the subjects. The aim of this paper is to investigate over a possible definition of split ergativity in the Hittite grammar.</p></abstract>

The Hittite grammar is characterized by a morphosyntactic split that affects the behaviour of the inflectional classes of Noun phrases (DPs). While a singular neuter transitive subject is marked by /-anza/suffix, commons DPs end with an /-š/mark. In addition, intransitive neuter subjects and neuter objects pattern in the same way, marked by /-ø/, while in commons the object role is marked by an /-n/ ending, which distinguishes it from the subjects. The aim of this paper is to investigate over a possible definition of split ergativity in the Hittite grammar.

Some notes on split ergativity in Hittite

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The Hittite grammar is characterized by a morphosyntactic split that affects the behaviour of the inflectional classes of Noun phrases (DPs). While a singular...

Some notes on split ergativity in Hittite

Published Online: Dec 04, 2019

Page range: 16 - 22

Received: Jul 24, 2019

Accepted: Aug 08, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2018-0014

Keywords
Hittite, Indo-European languages, morphosyntax, syntax, split-ergativity

© 2019 Marco Petolicchio, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Some notes on split ergativity in Hittite

Published Online: Dec 04, 2019

Page range: 16 - 22

Received: Jul 24, 2019

Accepted: Aug 08, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2018-0014

KeywordsHittite, Indo-European languages, morphosyntax, syntax, split-ergativity

© 2019 Marco Petolicchio, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Hittite, Indo-European languages, morphosyntax, syntax, split-ergativity