Active Participles in Hittite
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Ekaterina A. Lyutikova
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Andrei V. Sideltsev
Abstract
The paper reassesses the evidence for active transitive participles in Hittite and suggests that they are in reality formed from the unergative class of intransitive verbs.
Acknowledgements
We thank J. Hazenbos for reading the paper and providing valuable comments and criticism which greatly improved it, A. Shatskov for drawing our attention to M. Frotscher’s work and M. Frotscher for sharing his dissertation with us. Naturally, the authors remain solely responsible for all possible errors of fact or interpretation. Our work is supported by grant RFBR 20-012-00174A.
Abbreviations
Bibliographical abbreviations follow those of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie.
Corpus
CTH 378.2, The corpus includes texts composed only in the New Hittite time: prayers (CTH 377, CTH 378.1, CTH 378.3, CTH 378.4, CTH 378.5, CTH 378.6, CTH 378.7, CTH 378.8, CTH 379, CTH 381, 382, 383.1, 384.1) at http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/index.php; as well as Mursili II’s Prayer Concerning the Misdeeds and the Ousting of Tawananna (Miller 2014); instructions (Miller 2013), letters (Hoffner 2009; Hagenbuchner 1989; Giorgieri, Mora 2004), dreams and vows (de Roos 2007); deeds of Suppiluliuma (del Monte 2009), deeds of Mursili (Goetze 1933) with subsequent additions; deeds of Hattusili III (Gurney 1997); Apology of Hattusili III (Otten 1981); other texts relating to Hattusili III (Ünal 1974); restoration of Nerik (Cornil, Lebrun 1972); Memorandum concerning Mursili III (Cammarosano 2009), Bronzetafel (Otten 1988), dictate of Mursili II (Miller 2007), Mursili’s Aphasia (S. Görke (ed.), hethiter.net/: CTH 486 (TX 15.12.2015, TRde 17.07.2015)), cult inventories (Hazenbos 2003), oracles (Ünal 1978; van den Hout 1998; Sakuma 2009), treaties (CTH 42, CTH 62, CTH 69, CTH 89, CTH 105, CTH 123, CTH 141) (Friedrich 1926, 1930; del Monte 1986; González Salazar 1994) and at http://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/txhet_svh/textindex.php?g=svh&x=x, Ulmitešub treaty (van den Hout 1995) inventory texts (Siegelová 1986). Middle and Old Hittite texts, including Middle and Old Hittite compositions, were not included in the Corpus.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- The Relief of Harput
- Kultszenen – Bankettszenen: Die Akteure und die Paraphernalien
- A Middle Assyrian Fragment Mentioning Iron from Kassite Nippur
- The Power of Human Speech in Hittite Anatolia
- “The Shepherd, What Has He Done?”
- Presents in the Palace during the Middle Assyrian Period (1500–1000 BC)
- Active Participles in Hittite
- A Bit of Assyrian Imperial Culture
- Obligations de travail dans les économies palatiales du Bronze récent
- “Both my Cleansed Hands”
- Everything Must Go
