The present work aims at an analysis of the category of reflexivity in Anatolian languages, taking Hittite Reflexivpartikel =z(a) as a starting point and analysing its uses in the earliest period. The analysis also focuses on the other Anatolian languages with «clitic reflexive pronouns» (Luwian, Palaic, Lycian and Lydian), the uses of which will also be examined, touching on other topics relevant here, such as the possible use of a nominal head reflexive in Luvic and the traces of reflexive clitics in verbal desinences of the middle voice. Finally, the postulated framework for the proto-language is traced, accepting the hypothesis that reflexives originate from the pronominal system and explaining its various stages of formal and functional evolution.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
La riflessività nelle lingue anatoliche
Authors
Marco Ammazzini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
318
Publication Year
2025
Copyright Information
© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0732-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0731-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0732-4
Series Title
Studia Asiana
Series ISSN
1974-7837
Series E-ISSN
2612-808X