Topics in Anatolian Historical Grammar Prof. Dr. H. Craig Melchert

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Mattyas Huggard
(22) nu
conj
IKRIBU I.A =ma
votive offering-pl=Top
n=a
conj=it-acc.pl
kuie
REL-nom.pl
arninkanzi
give compensation-3pl.pres
arninkue
compensatory
“But the votive offerings which are to be made in restitution, they will make
in restitution.” (KBo 2.2 iv 7f)
In both instances, Garrett (1994:46–7) proposes that the wh-phrase undergoes whmovement
in the relative clause, followed by a further “fronting” process of the
relative pronoun in the case of indeterminate relatives, and of any accented constituent
in the case of determinate relatives. In the case of the determinate RC,
this Front position must be obligatorily filled by a single syntactic constituent as
in (23):
(23) Hittite determinate RC syntax (= (22))
In the Hittite indeterminate RC, this Front position is occupied by the relative
pronoun itself, as in (24). Although this proposal permits retaining Held’s
classification of Hittite RCs, it nevertheless falls short of accounting for the variety
of internal orderings of constituents observed within preposed RCs in the corpus
(in some cases with more than one constituent preceding the relative
element), and needs to be updated with respect to current syntactic theory. Closer
examination of Hittite determinate RCs shows the possible orderings in (25).