Lycian relative clauses

H. Craig Melchert*

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* – Carrboro, NC. Email: melchert@humnet.ucla.edu

Cite as Melchert, H. C. 2021: Lycian Relative Clauses. Hungarian Assyriological Review 2: 65–75.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52093/hara-202101-00013-000

Abstract

Lycian relative clause syntax generally matches that of Hittite and other Anatolian Indo-European languages, with some minor differences due to Lycian SVO word order. One putative major contrast is that Lycian seems to have at least one example showing “overt wh-movement”. Arguments are made that opening formulas with enclitic =ti in funerary inscriptions contain a reflexive particle, not “cleft” structures with the relative pronoun.

Keywords: clefts, Lycian, reflexive particle, relative clauses

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