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Silvia Luraghi
The paper aims at giving a unified account of the origins and development of the Anatolian `local partirles; which, as such, are not attested in any other Indo-European language. The partirles are P2 clitics and mosdy co-occur with some type of local expression. The function of the Indo-European preverbs is taken by a set of adverbs which, in the earliest stages of Anatolian, display a number of features typical of nominal constituents, as in the expression aftas=mas apean, `after my father; where the adveró apean takes a modifier in the genitive. The adverbs often co-occur with the partirles. Etymologically, both the adverbs and the partirles can in part be connected with the Indo-European preverbs. Since postpositional and preverbal syntax for the adverbs appears to develop during the history of Hittite, it has been suggested that Anatolian is particularly archaic, because it mirrors a stage of Indo-European at which there where no adpositions and no preverbs, but only independent adverbs. I argue that the partirles go back to adverbial elements, and were formerly the functional equivalent of the Indo-European preverbs/adpositions. Later, these forms underwent semantic bleaching, became ditic and were attracted toward P2. (It must be mentioned that Anatolian is particularly rich in P2 ditics, which also indude sentence partirles, modal partirles, and various types of pronominal forms). After diticization of the former preverbs, the class of preverbs/adposition was reconstructed through the creation of local adverbs, which, in their turn, partly derive from nominal forms, partly from Indo-European adverbs. My claim has two consequences: a) it shows that the alleged archaism of Anatolian, at least as far as the existente of preverbs/adpositions is concerned, is an illusion; this word class did exist before Anatolian split from the rest of Indo-European already, but it was lost and renewed: what we observe in Old Hittite is the beginning of this renewal; b) it provides an example of a grammaticalization chain shift: former preverbs have undergone semantic bleaching and phonological reduction, becoming partirles, and new preverbs have been created out of former adverbs and nouns to replace the older ones
