ALL libraries (COBIB.SI union bibliographic/catalogue database)
13.
Modal Construction with man in Hititte and Akkadian
Zorman, Marina
Hittite has a simple verbal system with only two inflectional moods, indicative and imperative. Unreal and potential kinds of modal meaning are conveyed by means of the modal particle (-)man combined ...with the indicative form of the verb. Indo- Europeanists have long debated whether the small number of moods in Hittite should be regarded as an archaic feature of the Hittite verbal system or as a consequence of an early branching off of Hittite from the Indo-European parent stock. Recent research on the history of the Indo-European mood has established that Hittite actually lost the inherited subjunctive and athematic optative, while the Indo-European thematic optative is a relatively late construction which was not created until Hittite and the whole northern group of Indo-European languages had split off from the rest of the Indo-European family. The origin of the Hittite modal construction with (-)man plus indicative seems inexplicable using only internal Anatolian and Indo-European material. Akkadian had a homophone irrealis particle -man (with an Old Assyrian variant form -min), which was used in the same way as the Hittite (-)man: for a modal (unreal and potential) modification of declarative sentences and in conditionals. If we compare the structure of the Hittite and the Akkadian sentences with (-)man, we can see that the main difference between them is in word order: in apodosis the Akkadian -man could be attached to any stressed word, while the Hittite (-)man is always clause initial or attached to the first stressed word. Since the almost complete formal and semantic similarity cannot be accidental and the mere lexical borrowing of (-)man which was discussed in some earlier treatises on this question cannot explain the origin of the grammatical pattern as a whole, I propose to view the Hittite (-)man plus indicative as a product of linguistic change in a Hittite-Akkadian contact setting.
It was not necessary to add the material to the shelf.
Bibliographic material was successfully added on shelf.
Adding bibliographical material on shelf was not successful.
Material is already on the shelf.
Permalink
URL:
Impact factor
Access to the JCR database is permitted only to users from Slovenia. Your current IP address is not on the list of IP addresses with access permission, and authentication with the relevant AAI accout is required.
Year
Impact factor
Edition
Category
Classification
JCR
SNIP
JCR
SNIP
JCR
SNIP
JCR
SNIP
Impact factor
Select the library membership card:
DRS,
in which the journal is indexed
Database name
Field
Year
Links to authors' personal bibliographies
Links to information on researchers in the SICRIS system
Subject headings in COBISS General List of Subject Headings
Select pickup location
The material from the parent unit is free. If the material is delivered to the pickup location from another unit, the library may charge you for this service.
