Koordinierte singularische Nomina im Hethitischen und ihr Kongruenzverhalten
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Cyril Brosch
Abstract
The present article explores the agreement patterns for conjoined singular nouns and pronouns in Hittite, based on a collection of ca. 270 examples from Old to Late New Hittite original manuscripts. It turns out that while in the domain of the attribute one always finds plural resolution of the target, in the other domains there are two different patterns based on a semantic distinction between controllers of animate and inanimate reference.While the former can (but need not) show resolution, the latter’s targets usually agree only with the nearest noun of the coordinated controllers, hence appearing in the singular.The paper also shows that a distinction has to be made between real coordination and two similar syntactic phenomena, i.e. noun phrases in an OR-conjunction (which always trigger singular agreement) and sequences of similar controllers in different clauses (which always trigger plural agreement).
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