Insubordination and what happens after it
Evidence from Hittite
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrei V Sideltsev (0000-0002-0181-5872, Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 482-524 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.22043.sid |
| OpenAlex | W4400824508 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
One of the sources of irrealis markers is former markers of conditional sentences, both protases and apodoses, both factual and counterfactual. The development, amply documented cross-linguistically, is that of insubordination: a former marker of subordination is used as an irrealis marker in main clauses. However, the next stage of development is not commonly observed: when irrealis markers that came into being as the result of insubordination and are used in main clauses spread back to their original locus, conditional sentences. The paper deals with a clear attestation of this pattern in Hittite, an extinct Indo-European language. It is argued that the development is part of a linguistic cycle of the ‘broken’ kind, i.e., that the cycle changed by other processes simultaneously operating in the language
History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
The Linguistic Cycle
Grammaticalization
Insubordination and its uses
The Historical Development of Si -Clauses in Romance
Etymological Dictionary of Greek
Routes Towards The Irrealis
Areal features of Hittite conditionals
The Shift of a Hittite Conjunction from the Temporal to the Conditional Sphere
Hittite Etymological Dictionary
| Highly cited | No |
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