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1) Hittite had a genitive singular ending -aš and plural ending -an. Other Anatolian languages developed possessive adjectives instead of the genitive case.
2) Lycian expressed possession through adjectives in -a/ehe/i-, genitive endings -Vhe or -Vh, and a plural ending -ẽ. It allowed zero-ending genitives for personal names.
3) Carian used a genitive ending -ś. It also had a possessive adjective in -s-. The document analyzes the forms of possession markers across the Anatolian languages
In linguistics, alternation is a variation in the form and/or sound of a word or word part. (Alternation is equivalent to allomorphs in morphology.) Also known as alternance.
A form involved in an alternation is called an alternant. The customary symbol for alternation is ~.
American linguist Leonard Bloomfield defined an automatic alternation as one that's "determined by the phonemes of the accompanying forms" ("A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language," 1926). An alternation that affects only some morphemes of a particular phonological form is called non-automatic or non-recurrent alternation.
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- Substitution and its types including nominal, verbal, and clausal substitution.
- Ellipsis and its occurrence when structurally necessary elements are left unsaid, discussing nominal, verbal, and clausal ellipsis.
- Examples are provided to illustrate each concept.
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In linguistics, alternation is a variation in the form and/or sound of a word or word part. (Alternation is equivalent to allomorphs in morphology.) Also known as alternance.
A form involved in an alternation is called an alternant. The customary symbol for alternation is ~.
American linguist Leonard Bloomfield defined an automatic alternation as one that's "determined by the phonemes of the accompanying forms" ("A Set of Postulates for the Science of Language," 1926). An alternation that affects only some morphemes of a particular phonological form is called non-automatic or non-recurrent alternation.
and An Instance of Aggressive Reduplication in Greek.pdfAshley Smith
This document provides an overview and analysis of the Greek verbs πίμπλημι 'I fill' and πίμπρημι 'I burn', which exhibit unusual reduplicated present stems with a nasal in the reduplicant. The author proposes that these forms arose through a process of "aggressive reduplication", where speakers perceived the similar syllables of nasal-prefixed forms like ἐμπίμπλημι as imperfectly reduplicated and "corrected" them, resulting in the nasal spreading to the reduplicant. Over time, a dissimilation pattern developed where the nasal was lost before nasal-
The document discusses various linguistic concepts related to cohesion and coherence in texts, including:
- Text, texture, ties, cohesion, and different types of reference such as exophoric, endophoric, anaphora, and cataphora.
- Substitution and its types including nominal, verbal, and clausal substitution.
- Ellipsis and its occurrence when structurally necessary elements are left unsaid, discussing nominal, verbal, and clausal ellipsis.
- Examples are provided to illustrate each concept.
This document discusses allomorphy in English morphology. It examines different exponents of the plural morpheme in English, such as /s/, /z/, /ɪz/, /ən/, zero, and how they are conditioned phonologically, morphologically, semantically or lexically. While the exponents vary in form, they are considered allomorphs of the same plural morpheme. The document also discusses conditions on allomorphy selection and types of allomorphic alternations. As an example, it analyzes allomorphs of the past tense morpheme in English regular verbs.
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The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines weak syllables as those with reduced vowels, often schwa, and lists common spelling patterns that indicate weak vowels. Strong syllables are stressed and have clearer vowel sounds. The relationship between syllable stress and word forms (strong vs. weak) is also explained, with examples of how stress affects pronunciation and meaning.
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The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as one that has a reduced vowel sound like schwa (ə), a close front vowel like i, a close back vowel like u, or a syllabic consonant. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables and discusses how weak forms are important for both producing and comprehending English speech due to the influence on rhythm. Teaching weak forms can help improve foreign students' pronunciation and listening skills.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as one that has a reduced vowel sound like schwa (/ə/) or one of three other vowel types. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables based on their spelling patterns. The document also discusses weak forms in English, where unstressed words are pronounced differently than their stressed counterparts. Teaching weak forms is important for both improving students' English pronunciation and listening comprehension.
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The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as having one of four possible vowel sounds at its center: schwa (ə), a close front vowel like i, a close back vowel like u, or a syllabic consonant. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables and discusses how weak forms are important for both producing and comprehending spoken English.
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- English has consonant and vowel sounds that combine to form syllables based on their onset, nucleus, and coda. Phonotactics govern permissible sound combinations.
- Assimilation, nasalization, and elision are common phonological processes where sounds influence each other in connected speech. Assimilation involves one sound taking on traits of another sound, while elision omits sounds altogether.
1. Textual equivalence refers to any translation that preserves the contextually relevant features of the original text.
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2) The alternating vowel varies across Slavic languages, such as /e/ in Russian, Polish, and Czech, and /a/ in Serbo-Croatian.
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The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines weak syllables as those with reduced vowels, often schwa, and lists common spelling patterns that indicate weak vowels. Strong syllables are stressed and have clearer vowel sounds. The relationship between syllable stress and word forms (strong vs. weak) is also explained, with examples of how stress affects pronunciation and meaning.
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2. It defines various types of antonyms such as binary antonyms, converses, gradable antonyms, and multiple incompatibles.
3. The relationship between contradictoriness, antonymy, and incompatibility is explored, as well as the differences between homonymy and polysemy as types of ambiguity.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. A strong syllable has a full vowel as its nucleus, while a weak syllable typically contains the reduced vowel schwa. The most common vowel in weak syllables is schwa, represented as /ÉTM/. Other vowels found in weak syllables include a close front vowel similar to /i/ and a close back vowel similar to /u/. These vowels are difficult to distinguish from their strong counterparts /i:/ and /u:/. Spellings can provide clues as to which vowel would be present if the syllable was strong. Weak syllables tend to have shorter, less intense vowels compared to strong syllables.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as having one of four possible vowel sounds at its center: schwa (ə), a close front vowel like i, a close back vowel like u, or a syllabic consonant. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables and discusses how weak forms are important for both producing and comprehending spoken English.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as one that has a reduced vowel sound like schwa (ə), a close front vowel like i, a close back vowel like u, or a syllabic consonant. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables and discusses how weak forms are important for both producing and comprehending English speech due to the influence on rhythm. Teaching weak forms can help improve foreign students' pronunciation and listening skills.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as one that has a reduced vowel sound like schwa (/ə/) or one of three other vowel types. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables based on their spelling patterns. The document also discusses weak forms in English, where unstressed words are pronounced differently than their stressed counterparts. Teaching weak forms is important for both improving students' English pronunciation and listening comprehension.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as one that has a reduced vowel sound like schwa (/ə/) or one of three other vowel types. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables based on their spelling patterns. The document also discusses weak forms in English, where unstressed words are pronounced differently than their stressed counterparts. Teaching weak forms is important for both improving students' English pronunciation and listening comprehension.
The document discusses weak and strong syllables in English. It defines a weak syllable as having one of four possible vowel sounds at its center: schwa (ə), a close front vowel like i, a close back vowel like u, or a syllabic consonant. It provides many examples of words containing weak syllables and discusses how weak forms are important for both producing and comprehending spoken English.
The document discusses the roots of Egyptian verbs and whether triliterality, or three-consonant roots, are an innovation. It notes that Semitic languages have predominantly triliteral roots, while Chamitic languages have both biconsonantal and triconsonantal roots. The document examines evidence that many strong triliteral verbs in Egyptian may have derived from earlier biconsonantal roots through processes like reduplication or addition of prefixes/suffixes. Therefore, while triliterality seems to be an innovation, it is a very old one that occurred at the proto-Afro-Asiatic level rather than being an Egyptian-specific change.
This document discusses nouns and verbs in Tagalog and responds to claims by Foley about their categorization. It presents the following key points:
1) In Tagalog, any noun can function as a verb and any verb can function as a noun based on morphological and syntactic evidence.
2) Foley claims that Tagalog roots are "pre-categorical" with no distinction between noun and verb roots. Kroeger challenges this by presenting evidence for underlying argument structure in Kimaragang.
3) Voice affixation serves different functions for nominal versus verbal roots in Tagalog, questioning Foley's analysis of its role. Underlying argument structure may exist prior to voice marking.
This document discusses grammatical cohesion in text. It defines cohesion as the linguistic features that link sentences together to form a coherent text. Grammatical cohesion refers to the grammatical devices used to make relations between sentences explicit, such as reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. The document examines these different types of grammatical cohesion in detail, providing examples and explanations of each. It also discusses the role of grammatical cohesion in creating connections between ideas in a text to aid the reader's understanding.
Cases and its function in Latin ( Word )Zen Barwdi
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The document discusses literal and figurative language. Literal language means exactly what is said, while figurative language uses words or phrases in a non-literal way to imply a meaning. Figurative language is commonly found in poetry and can take various forms such as similes, metaphors, personification and more. It serves to make language more interesting by not always meaning what is literally said or read. Various figures of speech, sounds, and rhetorical devices are also described.
This document summarizes compounding in several North American indigenous languages, including Biloxi, Crow, Comanche, and Koasati. It finds that while some languages like Biloxi have relatively simple compounds, others like Crow and especially Koasati have more complex compounding involving multiple elements. Compounding takes various forms across languages, including noun-noun, noun-verb, verb-verb combinations and more. Languages use compounding as a way to conceptualize new ideas and describe the world in innovative ways through combining existing elements in new semantic meanings.
The document discusses several key concepts in phonology:
- Phonology describes the sound patterns and systems of a language. Phonemes are abstract sound units that distinguish meaning. Allophones are variant pronunciations of the same phoneme.
- English has consonant and vowel sounds that combine to form syllables based on their onset, nucleus, and coda. Phonotactics govern permissible sound combinations.
- Assimilation, nasalization, and elision are common phonological processes where sounds influence each other in connected speech. Assimilation involves one sound taking on traits of another sound, while elision omits sounds altogether.
1. Textual equivalence refers to any translation that preserves the contextually relevant features of the original text.
2. Cohesion gives text its texture through vocabulary and grammar, including devices like reference, substitution, and ellipsis.
3. Reference uses pronouns, demonstratives, or comparatives to refer back to other parts of the text. Different languages use reference in different ways.
This document provides an overview of vowel/zero alternations in Slavic languages. Some key points:
1) Vowel/zero alternations commonly occur in nouns, adjectives, and verbs in Slavic languages, where a vowel may be present in some forms but not others.
2) The alternating vowel varies across Slavic languages, such as /e/ in Russian, Polish, and Czech, and /a/ in Serbo-Croatian.
3) Representing these alternations as underlying vowels or zeros that are inserted or deleted does not adequately capture the unpredictable nature of when the vowel appears. The alternations are influenced by factors like syllabification and breaking up consonant clusters
The document discusses phonological analysis of Korean and Japanese. For Korean, it analyzes the relationship between /ɾ/ and /l/, finding that they are in complementary distribution and are therefore allophones of the same phoneme. It also analyzes the relationship between /s/, /ʃ/ and /z/ in Korean, listing the environments where each appears. For Japanese, it asks about the relationship between [s] and [ʃ], which appear in different phonetic environments.
This document provides an introduction to morphology, the study of word structure. It discusses the basic units of meaning in words called morphemes, including roots, stems, prefixes, suffixes, and other affixes. It explains the difference between inflectional and derivational morphology. Inflectional morphology involves changes that indicate grammatical information like number, tense, or case, while derivational morphology derives new words and can change a word's class. The document also covers topics like allomorphy, where a single morpheme can have variable phonetic forms depending on context.
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1. Genitive Case and Possessive Adjective in Anatolian
H. Craig Melchert
University of California, Los Angeles
1. Introduction1
One of the most famous features of the Anatolian Indo-European languages is
the widespread use of an inflected adjective (that agrees with its head noun in
gender, number and case) in place of the genitive case. In some languages use of
this adjective leads to total or near total loss of the genitive. Less well-known is
the variety of exponents of the genitive case itself in Anatolian. The following
reexamination of this topic was directly stimulated by the article of Hajnal (2000).
His analysis has led me to revise radically my own previous views, but in a very
different direction from the one he proposes.
I should make clear at the outset one fundamental difference in viewpoint.
Hajnal argues (2000: 174ff.) that there was a consistent functional difference in
PIE between the “individualizing genitive” and the “specifying” possessive
adjective and (2000: 179ff.) that this difference is still discernible in the pattern of
their use in Lycian and HLuvian. I cannot accept this claim for Lycian, where
there is no functional difference between leθθi qlã “precinct of Leto” (adj.) and
wazzije kbatra “daughter of Wazzije” (gen.), nor (pace Hajnal) between tebeija
“of Tibe” (adj.) and Hlah “of Hla” (gen.), each of which respectively identifies
the owner of the tomb. On the mixed syntax of possessive adjective and genitive
in HLuvian see note 13 below. This artificial distinction has led Hajnal to what
are in my view implausible historical derivations of some of the genitival endings.
That the true denominative adjectives employed by some of the Anatolian
languages originally meant merely ‘pertaining to’ or ‘having the quality of’ the
base noun is not in question. However, the crucial innovation of the Anatolian
languages (all those except Hittite) was precisely to use these adjectives
interchangeably with and in some cases in place of the genitive case (thus with
Mittelberger 1966: 99, 101 and 103).2
1
This article represents a heavily revised version of item 121 listed in my bibliography as ‘to
appear’. The original text has been withdrawn in light of the recent works by YAKUBOVICH 2008,
ADIEGO 2010, GOEDEGEBUURE 2010, and SCHÜRR 2010. I am indebted to Ilya Yakubovich and
Elisabeth Rieken for very helpful comments on a draft of this paper, but the usual disclaimer
applies, and I am solely responsible for all analyses not explicitly attributed.
2
It is far from clear that the contrast HAJNAL claims for the genitive and possessive adjective is
valid even for PIE. See the very different characterizations of the genitive cited by NEUMANN
(2001: 448). I thank Norbert Oettinger for this reference.
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2. Genitive and Possessive Adjective in Anatolian—Synchrony
I must first briefly set forth the relevant data for the Anatolian languages. Old
Hittite shows a genitive singular ending -aš and a genitive plural ending -an.
Despite false claims to the contrary (e.g. Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1995: 233ff.
with wholly unjustified further implications), there are no assured examples of -an
in Hittite with a singular meaning. Most examples must be, and all can be,
interpreted as plurals (see Laroche 1965: 33-40). The exclusively plural function
is confirmed by the Anatolian cognates cited below. In later Hittite the genitive
plural ending in -an is replaced by -aš, which may reflect syncretism either with
the genitive singular or the dative-locative plural. The latter is far more likely,
since there is other evidence for case syncretism in Hittite, but none for a loss of
contrast between singular and plural.
Hittite does not make productive use of an adjective to express possession.
The suffix -šša/i- appears only in a few lexicalized substantives, such as
genušša/i- “knee(-joint)” and d
šakuwašša- “deity of the eye”. For genušša/i- as
‘knee-joint’ see Eichner 1979. As correctly argued by Eichner (esp. 1979: 46), all
attempts to find the enclitic possessive adjective in the relevant forms are doomed
(pace Puhvel 1997: 151 and Kloekhorst 2008: 467). Contra Puhvel (1997: 147)
one must on the basis of the parallel iškišitti (dat.-loc. sg. of a stem in -itti-!) also
read in KBo 12.33 iii 9 genuššit[ti] (cf. antakitti- beside antaga- ‘loins’).
Examples of animate forms of genu- ‘knee’ are specially conditioned, all referring
to the ‘walking knee’, where the animate gender is used to indicate that the knee
is conceived of as an actor.
Palaic attests a genitive singular in -aš cognate with the Hittite ending and a
few possessive adjectives in -aša/i-, such as d
Zaparwaa(ta)ša/i- “of the god
Zaparfa”.3
Cuneiform Luvian (CLuvian) has by most accounts entirely replaced the
genitive case with a possessive adjective in -ašša/i- (for the inflection with so-
called “i-mutation” see Starke 1990: 54ff.). However, see now the claim of
Yakubovich (2008: 202-206) for CLuvian genitive singulars in -ašša and -ašši
and discussion below. Hieroglyphic Luvian (HLuvian) has a genitive singular
ending /-as/ (spelled -Ca-sa) matching the Hittite and Palaic ending. Genitive
singulars of i-stems spelled -Ci-(i)-sa are also probably to be analyzed as /-is/
contracted from /-iyas/. HLuvian also makes wide use of the possessive adjective
in /-assa/i-/ seen in CLuvian, as well as one in /-i(ya)-/. Finally, HLuvian also has
examples of possessive forms spelled -Ca-si-(i) that do not show agreement with
their head noun (e.g. pa-si-i-´ a-ta5-ma-za “his name” in ADIYAMAN 1, §8).
3
Contra HAJNAL (2000: 165) this stem is attested as an adjective with the meaning given, not as a
noun meaning “cake of Z.”. The example cited from KUB 35.165 Vs 7 does not exist: here read
d
Zaparwaaš=an=pa=ti takkuwāti “Zaparfa accepts it for himself”.
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While it is conceivable that these spellings represent the ordinary genitive
singular in /-as/, it is far more likely that we must assume a genuine alternate
ending /-asi/, as first seen by Mittelberger (1966: 100).4
Lycian (A) displays the greatest number of ways of expressing possession
among the Anatolian languages. First of all, for most appellatives it employs an
adjective in -a/ehe/i- (appearing in Milyan/Lycian B as -a/ese/i-) cognate with
Luvian /-assa/i-/.5
Some personal names appear with a zero ending (e.g. Epñxuxa
in TL 127,1), first identified by Neumann (1970: 61), who argues correctly that
these examples should not be emended out of existence by adding an -h! Personal
names and place names do attest a genitive ending -Vhe or -Vh.6
Occasional
accusative singulars in -Vhñ that precede(!) their modified noun are also merely
secondarily inflected examples of the genitive ending -Vh(e), as per Hajnal (1995:
197ff.), following Mittelberger (1966: 104) and Adiego (1994: 18), against
Melchert (1994: 324 et alibi). Finally, Lycian also has a genitive plural in -ẽ
cognate with Old Hittite -an.
Lydian apparently attests a handful of cases of the ending -aν functioning
synchronically as a genitive plural (see Gusmani 1964: 130 & 202). For the most
part, however, this ending has taken on the function of a dative-locative plural.
For possession Lydian otherwise employs an adjective in -Vl(i)- (on its inflection,
once again with the ‘i-mutation’, see Starke 1990: 85).
Possession is regularly marked in Carian by an ending -ś, with a palatal or
palatalized value. Word order (all possessive forms in -ś precede their head noun)
argues decisively for interpretation of this ending as that of a true genitive case
with Schürr (2001: 117) against Melchert (2002: 310-312): see my concession in
Melchert 2010: 178-179. There is a single instance of a secondary accusativus
genitivi in anim. acc. sg. pñmnnśñ (cp. Greek gen. sg. Πονμοοννου). Carian also
shows an inflected adjective in -s- that follows its head noun: otonosn ‘of Athens’
(see Melchert 2010: 179). As per Frei and Marek (1997: 35), we must likewise
restore in the same passage lùsiklas[n] ‘of Lysikles’ and lùsikratas[n] ‘of
Lysikrates’. The absence of any trace of palatalization in the sibilant argues that
its source is *-e/osso- matching CLuvian -ašša/i- and Lycian -ahe/i- but without
“i-mutation”, since even with eventual loss of the following vowel, the Carian
4
Unfortunately, HLuvian orthography does not permit us to tell whether any examples of
genitives spelled -Ca-sa and -Ci-sa represent yet another ending /-sa/ matching Lycian -he (thus
BADER 1991: 138ff.), since they may all be interpreted merely as /-as/ and /-is/.
5
There is also an isolated example of the possessive use of -i(je)-, matching HLuvian /-i(ya)-/: TL
100 ebe xupa me tibeija “This tomb (is that) of Tibe”. Pace HAJNAL (2000: 180) there is no basis
for viewing the function of the adjective here as different from that of the genitive in the same use
(e.g. TL 129 Hlah): as always, the inscription names the owner of the tomb.
6
In appellatives this ending appears only in terihe “(the one) of three” = “third”. Milyan also
shows a cognate ending -Vse (e.g. Kuprllese), with a few examples of secondarily inflected acc.
sg. -zñ (Wizttasppazñ). I know of no examples of a shorter variant matching Lycian -Vh.
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result of *-assis/n would surely be -š-, not -s- (see Melchert 2002: 305-306). To
be rejected is the derivation of Carian -si- (thus with fixed -i-!) in place-names
and personal names from an “i-mutation” form *-e/ossī- (thus Schürr 2001: 104-
107 and Yakubovich 2008: 193). Carian -si- is cognate rather with the Lycian
suffix -ze/i- (see Adiego 1995: 20 after Melchert), though the fixed -i- may reflect
a further addition of *-iyo- rather than “i-mutation”.
Whether any Carian words ending in -s are functioning as genitives remains
uncertain. Some of them certainly have rather a dative function. See the
discussion by Melchert (2010: 183-184) with references to the differing views of
Schürr 1992: 153-154, 1996: 66, and apud Adiego 1998: 19 versus Adiego ibid.
The southwestern Anatolian languages Pisidian and Sidetic, of very late and
limited attestation, mark possession by means of a sibilant ending. For Pisidian -s,
spelled with Greek sigma, see Brixhe 1988 and for Sidetic -z Nollé 2001: 632.
3. Genitive and Possessive Adjective in Anatolian—Diachrony
The prehistoric source of the genitive singular ending /-as/ of Hittite, Palaic
and HLuvian and of the zero ending of Lycian personal names is straightforward:
PIE *-os (for the Lycian thus also Adiego 1998: 13).7
The attempt of Schürr
(2010: 120-121) to explain the Lycian zero ending as a mere variant of the
ending -Vh is entirely unconvincing. Evidence for the loss of Lycian -h- is limited
specifically to internal position between like vowels, as shown by all examples he
cites (thus already Melchert 1994: 317). His claim of a weakness of word-final -h
is thus entirely ad hoc and without any independent support, much less the even
more ad hoc proposal that inflected adjectives like arñnaha and zaxabaha are
“hypercorrect spellings for [-a]”. Since we know that Lycian inherited the ending
*-os for thematic stems, there is no justification for not taking the endingless
genitives at face value, as examples of the inherited ending. That these might
survive only marginally in personal names is entirely to be expected. Likewise,
the genitive plural seen in Old Hittite -an, Lycian -ẽ and Lydian -aν (the last
mostly shifted to dat.-loc. plural) reflects PIE gen. pl. *-om.
As per Adiego (1994: 14ff.), the usually uninflected genitive ending of
Lycian in -Vhe, which is notably restricted to personal names, is best derived from
the PIE thematic genitive ending *-(e/o)so (my earlier objections were ill-
founded). The recessive pattern of the ending’s use is prima facie evidence for an
archaism (contra Hajnal 2000: 177). The argument against this derivation by
Hajnal (2000: 178, note 48) is entirely circular. Having declared (without
argument) that the ending -Vhe must be an innovation, he then says that there is
7
The PIE gen. sg. ending *-s is preserved only in the relic nekuz < *nekw
t-s “of evening” in the set
phrase nekuz meæur and in the genitive singular of the Hittite verbal noun -waš < *-wen-s.
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no evidence in Anatolian for the *-(e/o)so ending.8
We may dispense with the
complex scenario of Hajnal (2000: 177-178), whereby Lycian took a single
inherited ending *-os, which it kept while at the same time creating from it two
new endings, for some reason restricting all of them only to personal and place
names, at a time when it was adopting the inflected adjective in *-e/osso/ī- as its
productive marker of possession.
Equally implausible is the attempt of Schürr (2010) to derive all the Lycian
genitive endings from *-osyo. He is quite correct in arguing that a sequence *-sy-
could appear in Lycian (A) as -h- and in Milyan as -s-, since we cannot exclude a
prehistoric assimilation *-sy- > *-ss- (see further below). However, in attempting
to equate specifically Lycian -Vhe with Carian -ś (which certainly does reflect
*-osyo, as discussed below), he has totally forgotten his own arguments in favor
of the Carian ending -s, which in at least most cases functions synchronically as a
dative, but which cannot represent anything diachronically except the old genitive
singular ending *-e/oso, with the same trivial functional shift as seen in Lydian
dative-locative plural -aν (see above). That Lycian and Carian each began to
inflect their two respective genitive singular endings is a trivial parallel
development which we will see over and over again in Anatolian. Contra Schürr
(2010: 122) the Milyan accusativus genitive wizttasppazñ is not remotely an
argument for a palatal quality of the sibilant in Lycian, since Lycian-Milyan z
never marks a palatal quality, but either the dental affricate [ts] or (as in this case)
voiced [z]. For the voicing of *s before a sonorant compare Milyan zri- = Lycian
hri- ‘above, upper’ < *sri-.9
As per Melchert (2002: 309), Carian -s and
Lycian -Vhe are both to be derived from *-e/oso. As indicated in note 4 above, we
cannot affirm whether HLuvian has endings /-asa/ and /-isa/ also reflecting
*-(e/o)so.10
Adiego (2010) has also finally solved the problem of genitive singular
endings in -Vh beside -Vhe. As he points out, the synchronic distribution of the
possessive ending -Vhe and -Vh is not random: the former is strongly preferred
8
His further argument that *-(o)so is attested elsewhere in Indo-European only as a pronominal
ending is, of course, falsified by Germanic languages (e.g. Runic -as, ON -s, OE -æs in o-stem
nouns). The analogical spread of the ending from the o-stems to other stem classes is trivial.
9
SCHÜRR offers no proof for his claim (2010: 122) that attested s before nasal in Milyan reflects
historical *s (and not *k). His alleged examples (2001: 119) prove nothing: tasñtu ‘let them place’
reflects *-sk-, while the place-name wes:ñteli beside Lycian A wehñtezi need not reflect anything
Indo-European. The form on a coin wahñtezẽ with a-vocalism eliminates the interpretation of
NEUMANN apud HEUBECK, Die Sprache 31 (1985) 49, as from *wes-e/ont- ‘having pastures’.
10
Likewise it is impossible to determine whether the sibilant endings of Pisidian and Sidetic,
which appear to function as genitive endings synchronically, continue the *-oso ending or the
/-assa/i-/ adjective, reanalyzed due to loss of inflection. MELCHERT (1994: 44) and HAJNAL (2000:
182) assume the latter, but BRIXHE (1988: 52, note 29) and NOLLÉ (2001: 632) prudently entertain
both possibilities.
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when the head noun is in the locative case (most frequently with ẽnẽ xñtawata
‘under the rule (of)’, as also noticed by Schürr 2010: 1182
), while -Vh is much
preferred when the head noun is a nominative. Since we must concede that Lycian
had begun to secondarily inflect the true genitive ending *-(e/o)so in the animate
accusative singular (e.g. lusãñtrahñ ‘of Lysandros’), we should likewise suppose
that speakers had begun to secondarily inflect the ending also for the animate
nominative singular: i.e., they replaced the genitive ending in -Vhe (which fit
well for a locative singular) with endingless -Vh, which has the synchronic shape
of an animate nominative singular (for the details of the development see Adiego
2010: 6-7).
The clear evidence for limited secondary inflection of reflexes of the
*-(e/o)so ending in Lycian also supports the account of Bader (1991: 99) of the
Palaic inflected adjectives in -aša/i-: they merely reflect the same process taken to
its conclusion of a fully developed inflection. For reasons to reject the alternate
account of Hajnal (2000: 166) see the discussion below on the adjective suffix
/-assa/i-/. Whether or not the Palaic development (and those in Lycian and Carian)
represents “case attraction” and an areal feature as argued for Luvian by
Yakubovich (2008: 196-202), elaborating an idea of Luraghi’s, may be left open
(see Yakubovich’s own discussion 2008: 201).
The presence of PIE genitive ending *-e/oso in Anatolian supports the
proposal made by several scholars that the HLuvian ending /-asi/ is likewise a
reflex of the PIE thematic genitive ending *-osyo (e.g. Szemerényi 1990: 195).11
As per above, evidence that the -ś of the Carian possessive marker has a palatal
quality (see Melchert 2002: 310 with refs.) and its order preceding the head noun
suggests that it too reflects *-osyo (thus Schürr 2001: 117 and 2010: 122).
Goedegebuure (2010: 59) objects to this derivation on the grounds that the
required apocope of the final *-o would be unparalleled in Anatolian, but this is
false. While final short vowels are not lost after most consonants, it is clear that
the result of *-kw
e with a preceding labiovelar is -kku (in both Palaic and Hittite).
Nothing at all thus stands in the way of assuming likewise *-osyo# > *-osi, and
this is in fact the most economical way to explain the Old Hittite gen. sg. aši ‘of
that one’ (pace Goedegebuure).12
Furthermore, absolutely nothing compels us to
11
The assumption of a ‘reinforcing’ -i to a genitive in *-Vs (BADER 1991: 139 and HAJNAL 2000:
178) is entirely unmotivated. GEORGIEV (1967: 161) also derived the HLuvian ending from *-osyo,
but in its older false reading as /-as(s)a/. See further below.
12
Although it may seem logical that all forms of the paradigm of far-deictic ‘that’ had the added -i
of the nominative and accusative, nothing compels this. Attested OH edi ‘from there’ may be
simply the dative-locative in its well-attested use to mean ‘from’. There is no basis for
GOEDEGEBUURE’s listing (2010: 56) of a separate homophonous ablative-instrumental edi. And
since the Hittites later clearly felt no compulsion to add the -i to the newer gen. sg. ēl or the new
ablative etez (in the same paradigm as aši, uni, i/eni!), there is no basis for presuming that they felt
any when creating the non-direct forms of the prehistoric paradigm.
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assume that the respective attested forms even result from apocope. One may
equally well assume a regular change of unaccented final non-high vowels to *[ә]
(which preserved -a after other consonants may of course easily represent). In the
presence of a preceding glide or off-glide, it assimilated: thus *-kw
e > *-kw
ә >
*-kw
u > -kku and perfectly parallel *-osyo > *-osyә > *-osyi > -aš(š)i. If one
accepts (as I do not), the claim of Yakubovich (2008: 210-211) for a CLuvian
genitive singular ending -ašši with a geminate, then one must in fact follow this
alternative.
Goedegebuure’s own alternative source for -ašši < *-ési, that is, *-és+i with
the same -i as in Hittite aši, uni etc. (2010: 59) is doomed by the fact that there
never existed a genitive singular ending *é-s in the PIE thematic pronoun (only
*-e/osyo and *-e/oso). If we only had to account for a Luvian genitive singular
/-assi/, we could salvage her basic idea by supposing that the -i was added to
*-éso, but it is clear that the possessive adjectives in -(a)šša/i- to be discussed
below must reflect secondarily inflected forms of the genitive singular ending,
and the geminate -šš- in Hittite -šša- (genušša-, šakuwašša-, etc.) cannot possibly
reflect *-éso, since “Čop’s Law” does not operate in Hittite. At least the HLuvian
ending /-as(s)i/ and Carian -ś surely continue PIE *-osyo. More on the very
complex problem of the possessive adjectives in -(a)šša/i- shortly.
We may derive the HLuvian possessive adjectives in /-i(ya)-/ without
difficulty from PIE *-iyo-. For the remarkable HLuvian syntax that combines
these adjectives with nominal genitives see Melchert (1990: 202ff.).13
The Lydian
possessive adjective in -l(i)- reflects PIE denominative *-(o)lo- (well attested in
Hittite as a derivational suffix).
The prehistory of the suffix /-assa/i-/ is far more problematic.14
Two facts,
however, are paramount. First, in the two languages where the orthography may
show it (Hittite and CLuvian) this suffix has a consistent geminate /-ss-/. Second,
all attempts to explain the geminate starting from a preform *-eh2so/i- and to
relate the suffix (even indirectly) to Latin -ārius must be once and for all
abandoned. The crucial counterarguments have been made by Yakubovich (2008:
13
The attempt of HAJNAL (2000: 179ff.) to explain this usage in terms of “conjunction reduction”
is ingenious, but cannot account for the overall pattern of use in HLuvian, where there is no
prohibition against having a possessor and its apposition both appear in the genitive (see the
openings of BOHÇA, BULGARMADEN, BOYBEYPINARI 1&2, etc.). Nor does it account for
the usage in the long genealogy of MARAŞ 1, where personal names appear in the form of
/-assa/i-/ adjectives, while their appositions are in the genitive. Nor is the HLuvian usage of /-iya-/
adjectives as attested inherited, as claimed by Hajnal. What is remarkable about the HLuvian
construction is not that a possessive adjective may occur conjoined with or in apposition to a
nominal genitive, but rather that a genitive may depend on a possessive adjective in a “nested”
construction, something not shown in the parallels he cites.
14
For an excellent treatment of the syntax of this suffix in cases where it is used for a series of
“nested” genitives see NEUMANN 1982.
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194-195). As he indicates (see also Kloekhorst 2008: 216), my claim (Melchert
1994: 77) that *-h2s- assimilated in Proto-Anatolian to -ss- intervocalically, but
remained preconsonantally is phonetically implausible. Furthermore, it is directly
contradicted by Hittite paḫš- ‘protect’. What I failed to understand in 1994 was
that through Middle Hittite paḫš- is a transitive medio-passive with a third
singular paḫšari, paḫšaru. The mi-conjugation active paḫzi is a late secondary
creation of Neo-Hittite. Yakubovich also properly dismisses my positive evidence
for a-vocalism: the alleged primacy of -ahe/i- over -ehe/i- in Lycian. A survey of
all relevant Lycian examples confirms his claim that there are no compelling
examples of an adjective in -ahe/i- from a noun with a stem other than in -a- (that
the epithet pñnutahi in TL 43,2 is derived from the personal name Pñnute is very
doubtful).15
We must therefore find some other source for the geminate in the possessive
adjectives in CLuvian -ašša/i- and Hittite -šša-. Yakubovich (2008: 196ff.)
suggests that this adjectival suffix represents secondary inflection of the inherited
endings *-os-so (with restored geminate) and *-os-yo. In particular, he makes a
strong case (2008: 198-200 and 208-212) that in HLuvian (recte Empire Luvian)
the inflection of the ending /-assi/ < *-osyo is still taking place in the historical
period, under the influence of Hurrian. His evidence is that the inflection begins
in the non-direct cases, spreading only belatedly to the accusative and finally the
nominative. He suggests that the adjectival forms in -ašša- are derived in a similar
fashion from secondary inflection of *-os-so, which he finds still directly attested
in CLuvian (recte Kizzuwatna Luvian) genitive singular -ašša.
The first part of this scenario is undeniably correct, though the evidence that
the ending and eventual Empire Luvian adjectival suffix from *-osyo had a
geminate /-ss-/ is questionable (see Yakubovich’s own concession, 2008: 210-
211). On the other hand, the parallel derivation of /-assa-/ from *-os-so faces
insurmountable difficulties. First of all, as Yakubovich concedes, Anatolian surely
inherited the PIE rule that simplified underlying sequences of geminate */ss/ to
single *[s]: he himself provides the crucial evidence in the form of Palaic present
2nd singular muši ‘you are satiated’ < muš-, clearly underlyingly /mus-si/ (2008:
195 with note 4). He attempts to circumvent this problem by supposing that the
anaphoric/demonstrative stem *so- which he takes to be the second part of *-os-so
could be restored by Anatolian speakers based on the continued existence of *so-
as a demonstrative (2008: 208). However, Jasanoff (2010) has now shown that the
“particle” /-sa/ that came to be obligatory with Luvian neuter nom.-acc. singulars
reflects a possessive use of *so- in an original “split genitive” construction. There
15
That we find rare hypercorrect forms in the genitival ending -Vh(e) such as Sxxulijah to Sxxulije
is irrelevant, since this ending has nothing to do with the possessive adjective suffix, contrary to
my earlier supposition.
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is thus no basis whatsoever for the existence of demonstrative/anaphoric *so- in
Anatolian or for the presumed restoration of the geminate *-ss- in *-os-so.
Yakubovich’s account of the possessive adjectives in -ašša/i- also encounters
an irreconciliable conflict of relative chronology. According to his explanation
(2008: 194&196), the secondary inflection of both *-os-so and *-os-yo is an
innovation of the “Luvic” subgroup of Anatolian (Luvian, Lycian, and putatively
Carian). Since Lycian and Carian are attested only well into the first millennium
B.C.E., their apparent full inflection of the two suffixes is entirely compatible
with Yakubovich’s claim that the inflection is only incipient in Luvian.16
However, Hittite -šša- (whose form without a preceding -a- proves that this
form of the suffix is native Hittite!) without “i-mutation” and Lydian -si- (i.e.
palatalized [-ʃi-] or [çi]) with “i-mutation” show that inflected possessive
adjectives in /-assa/i-/ predate Proto-Luvic and in fact are surely Common
Anatolian (their absence in Palaic may be due to chance or to a Palaic
innovation).17
We must seek another source for this Common Anatolian
possessive adjective suffix with geminate /-ss-/.
In what follows I pursue a suggestion made to me by Elisabeth Rieken (pers.
comm.), that the geminate sibilant in -ašša/i- may reflect an assimilation of
*-VsyV-.18
The idea was already suggested by Georgiev (1967: 164 and 1972: 90),
but his formulation must be seriously revised, since he necessarily operated with
the false older readings of HLuvian, assuming a genitive ending -a-sa-a (/-as(s)a/)
for what we now know is -a-si-i (/-as(s)i/). As noted in Melchert (1994: 157-158),
all analyzable attested sequences of intervocalic stop or fricative plus y in Hittite
are at transparent morpheme boundaries and thus offer no probative evidence for
what happened to prehistoric *-VCyV- sequences.19
The only such sequence
whose result we know for certain is *-V-tyo-, where *t underwent assibilation
already in Proto-Anatolian and is preserved in Old Hittite -zziya- (e.g. šarazziya-
‘upper’): see Melchert 1994: 62. The situation is the same for Luvian and Lycian.
16
One should note that loss of final *-s in Lycian and the failure to indicate the presence of
nasalization in animate accusative singular [ĩ] make it impossible to strictly prove full inflection in
Lycian. Carian animate accusative singulars like otonosn suggest full inflection there.
17
For -si- in Lydian see animate nominative singulars kulumsis ‘Koloan’ and ibśimsis ‘Ephesian’.
Ilya Yakubovich (pers. comm.) suggests that these two forms could be borrowings into Lydian
from a form of Carian that had “i-mutation”. This scenario cannot strictly be excluded, but there is
no positive evidence for either of the two hypotheses on which it is based, and “i-mutation” is
well-established in Lydian.
18
The idea concerning Anatolian -(a)šša- < *-osyo- arose in discussions with Paul Widmer about
a similar source for Tocharian AB -ṣi/-ṣṣe (for the latter see also BADER 1991: 128-129). I must
emphasize that the version of the idea presented here is entirely my own, for which Professor
Rieken bears no responsibility.
19
Thus also Kloekhorst (2008: 216), who independently derives the possessive suffix -ašša- from
*-osyo- and gives further probative native Hittite examples, but does not address the problem of
HLuvian genitive singular /-as(s)i/.
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Therefore there is no counterevidence to an already Proto-Anatolian
assimilation of *-Vsyo- to *-Vsso-. However, if one is also going to derive the
HLuvian and Carian genitive singulars /-as(s)i/ and -ś from *-osyo, then one must
account for the differing outcomes. This problem is by no means insurmountable.
Based on the evidence of Hittite -šša- in genu-šša- ‘knee-joint’ (abstracted by
resegmentation of examples with thematic bases, thus *-osyo- → *-o-syo-), we
may assume that already in Common Anatolian there was secondary inflection of
*-osyo, thus anim. nom. sg. *-osyos, anim. acc. sg. *-osyom, neut. nom.-acc. sg.
*-osyom/d, and so forth.
The crucial assumption is a relative chronology by which the genitive ending
with *-osyo# in word-final position began its special development to *-os(s)i
before the assimilation of word-internal *-osyo- to *-osso- in the inflected
adjective. The details depend on whether one accepts the claim of Yakubovich
already mentioned that CLuvian (Kizzuwatna Luvian) attests a genitive singular
ending -ašši with a geminate. If one does not, one could suppose simply apocope
of final *-o after yod, as discussed above: *-osyo# > *-osi > HLuvian /-asi/. I do
not favor this because of Carian genitive singular -ś. As discussed in Melchert
(2002: 305-306 and 310), *s was palatalized to a š before front vowel, and to ś
only before yod (still another reason to reject my derivation there of -ś from
*-assis/n). I therefore prefer the assimilation scenario sketched above: *-osyo# >
*-osyə > *-osyi > *-os(s)i. Note that in the last step, one may assume the same
assimilation of intervocalic *sy to ss as in interior *-osyo- or suppose that before
the homorganic high front vowel the yod was simply deleted. If one chooses the
first alternative and a result /-assi/, then the CLuvian genitive ending -ašša <
*-oso, if it exists, may easily have its geminate by analogy to /-assi/, but see
further below.
The fact that Lydian (attested only in the second half of the first millennium)
shows descriptive “i-mutation” in -si- in no way precludes Yakubovich’s scenario
by which the secondary inflection of /-as(s)i/ began only within the historical
period of HLuvian (Empire Luvian), as a result of contact with Hurrian. As he
indicates (2008: 212), his explanation of the process accounts directly for the fact
that the distribution of /-assi-/ and /-assa-/ within the paradigm corresponds with
“i-mutation”.20
Lydian shares other innovations with the “Luvic” subgroup (see
Melchert 2003). Spread of the innovation from Luvian to Lydian as well as
Lycian is therefore unproblematic. Likewise, that the innovation did not reach
Carian (where -s- in -sn cannot reflect *-assin) is not surprising. Different
innovations in the Western Anatolian languages show varied distribution (see
again Melchert 2003). The very limited secondary inflection of Carian genitive
singular -ś must be independent of the process that led to the /-assa/i-/ adjectives
20
Note that the undeniable geminate of inflected /-assis/, /-assin/ etc. may either be analogical to
that of /-assa-/ or show that the result of final *-osyo# was in fact /-assi/ with a geminate.
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in Luvian, Lycian, and Lydian. As already noted, such secondary inflection is
commonplace and need not in all instances reflect an areal feature originating in
Hurrian.
A final point is the status of the alleged genitive singular ending -ašša in
CLuvian. Yakubovich (2008: 202-208) argues cogently that forms in -ašša
functioning as possessives but not showing agreement with their head noun
cannot be dismissed as errors, as I had done. However, as pointed out to me by
Petra Goedegebuure (pers. comm.),21
Yakubovich’s own statement (2008: 2007
)
that the -ašša possessive forms frequently depend on oblique case nouns is false.
Of the eight instances he cites, seven depend on head nouns in the neuter nom.-
acc. singular. The one exception, imrašša d
IŠKUR-u[nt]i ‘to the Storm-god of the
open country’ may with Yakubovich himself be taken as a false extension of the
attested imrašša d
IŠKUR-an=za ‘of the Storm-god of the open country’ (neuter
nom.-acc. sg., modifying a missing noun).
This distribution strongly suggests that the CLuvian (Kizzuwatnan Luvian)
forms in -ašša are not genitive singulars, but rather an older form of the neuter
nom.-acc. singular of the inflected adjective, reflecting the thematic pronominal
ending *-ossod (with regular loss of final *-d in Luvian).22
This was only in the
process of being replaced with -an=za, taken from the neuter thematic nouns.
Since we can derive the form -ašša- from *-osyo- as described above, the problem
of a genitive ending /-assa/ and its derivation from a very dubious preform *-os-so
disappears.
In sum, the Anatolian languages apart from Hittite do partly or wholly
replace the inherited genitive with a possessive adjective, but the Anatolian
languages as a whole preserve not only the PIE athematic singular and plural
endings *-os and *-om, but also the thematic endings *-oso and *-osyo. As
already suggested by Bader (1991), though not always in the precise terms she
envisioned, the inflected possessive adjectives of Anatolian containing a sibilant
all represent various secondary inflections of the two inherited endings *-oso and
*-osyo. This process took place multiple times within the history of the Anatolian
languages.
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Per an email of 15 November, 2010. The status of a genitive ending /-asa/ or /-assa/ and/or a
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be determined and cannot be treated here. I should stress that the interpretation given below of
CLuvian -ašša < *-ossod is mine, not that of Dr. Goedegebuure.
22
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