POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ANATOLIAN, HURRIAN, URARTIAN AND ARMENIAN AS EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE CONTACT

As is well known, adnominal possession displays some peculiar features in Anatolian.¹ Noun phrases that contain a head noun and a nominal modifier (dependent noun) often display patterns that are different from the usual construction involving an adnominal genitive, which occurs in the other Indo-Eu...

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Hauptverfasser:	Rutherford, Ian, Collins, Billie Jean, Bachvarova, Mary R
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Zusammenfassung:	As is well known, adnominal possession displays some peculiar features in Anatolian.¹ Noun phrases that contain a head noun and a nominal modifier (dependent noun) often display patterns that are different from the usual construction involving an adnominal genitive, which occurs in the other Indo-European languages. In the Anatolian languages of the Luwian group, the genitive case was replaced to varying extents by so-called genitival adjectives (Hajnal 2000). In Cuneiform Luwian, where substitution is complete, it already occurs in the most ancient written sources, and must date back to pre-literary times. Hittite, which retains the use of the adnominal genitive,