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

On the Hittite Preposed Relative Clause 21
tions observed for the preposed relative-clause type in Hittite, while maintaining
the semantic asymmetries observed by Held (1957) and formalized by Garrett
(1994).
The next step would be to examine preposed free relatives, postposed relatives,
and Old Hittite embedded relatives, in order to verify whether the present
proposal holds for them as well. Furthermore, comparative work based on Hittite,
Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit may also provide support for a more extensive
use of the left periphery in other daughter languages of PIE, as well as providing
further clues for the role of pragmatics in PIE syntax and surface word order.
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