Open AccessLa heteróclisis lE *so/ *to y el pronombre hetita -aš, -an
Author(s) -
José Antonio Berenguer
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1998.v66.i2.258
Subject(s) - hittite language , subject (documents) , nominative case , linguistics , alternation (linguistics) , opposition (politics) , philosophy , pronoun , demonstrative , history , computer science , verb , politics , political science , law , library science
A new proposal on the elusive origin of the *so / *to suppletivisme can rest on some facts: 1) post-anatolian genesis (Hittite ša-aš, ta-aš have to be explained as prototonic particle *so or *to+enclitic pronoun derived from a *(H1)e- stem); 2) the alternation *so / *to reflects a basic opposition animate nominative vs. rest of cases (and not simply animate vs. inanimate reference or similar). The primitive prototonic particle *to was reinterpreted in post-anatolian period as an anaphoric element referred to a non-subject antecedent. Such an anaphoric would have a non-subject syntactic use too. When it was needed an emphatic anaphoric subject, the prototonic particle *so was employed with this aim (a favourable scenario would be clauses with subject change)