Hittite prosody

This paper deals with the prosody of the Hittite sentence connectives . It is argued that bare sentence connectives are unstressed, being proclitics, whereas + are stressed. Some implications for diachronic and synchronic phonology of Hittite are also discussed.

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Published in:Indogermanische Forschungen 2018-08, Vol.123 (1), p.113-136
Main Author: Sideltsev, Andrei V.
Format: Article
Language:ger
Subjects:
enclitics
Hittite
proclitics
prosody
sentence connectives
stress
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Summary:This paper deals with the prosody of the Hittite sentence connectives . It is argued that bare sentence connectives are unstressed, being proclitics, whereas + are stressed. Some implications for diachronic and synchronic phonology of Hittite are also discussed.
ISSN:0019-7262
1613-0405
DOI:10.1515/if-2018-0005