Toward a prosodic account of Hittite “hyperbaton” Anthony D. Yates H. Craig Melchert University of California, Los Angeles Carrboro, NC adyates@ucla.edu melchert@humnet.ucla.edu 1. Introduction • Hittite — like other ancient Indo-European (IE) languages — exhibits HYPERBATON, i.e.: “A word order phenomemenon in which phrasal or subphrasal material occurs displaced from its base order, often creating discontinuous constituents” (Agbayani & Golston 2010:134) • Such discontinuous constituents are well-known in Greek and Latin, e.g., (1) : (1) • It has been previously observed that Hittite often shows hyperbaton with indefinite pronouns and adjectives (INDF; Huggard 2015:50–82). o INDF splits postposition from its object in postpositional phrase (PP) in (2) : (2) KUB 1.16 iii 60 (OH/NS; CTH 6 – Testament of Hattusili I): o INDF splits noun from modifying genitive in noun phrase (NP) in (3) : (3) HT 1 obv. ii 18–19 (NS; CTH 410 – Ritual of Uhhamuwa): n=at mān ⟦kururaš kuiški DINGIR-LUM⟧NP iyan harzi ‘And if some ⟦deity of the enemy⟧NP has caused it’ o INDF splits participle from finite verb in periphrastic perfects in (4) : (4) KUB 13.2 iv 13-20 (MH/NS; CTH 261 – Instructions for Frontier Post Governors): a. Pl. Resp. 353b ⟦pántôn péri tôn állôn⟧PP all:GEN.PL from the:GEN.PL other:GEN.PL ‘about ⟦all the other things⟧NP’ b. Caes. BGall. 1.2: ⟦una ex parte⟧PP one:ABL.SG from part:ABL.SG ‘from ⟦one part⟧NP’ nassu ⟦DINGIR-LIM-ni kuiški peran⟧PP wašti ‘Or (if) someone sins ⟦before the deity⟧PP’ naššu ⟦dammišḫān kuiški kuitki ḫarzi⟧XP našma⸗za ⟦dān kuiški kuitki ḫarzi⟧XP našma⸗za ⟦ḫappiran kuiški kuitki ḫarzi⟧XP našma ÉSAG kuiški kinuwan ḫarzi ‘(And you shall inquire regularly into the palaces and noble estates in your province as to) whether someone ⟦has damaged⟧XP something, or someone ⟦has taken⟧XP something for himself, or someone ⟦has sold⟧XP something for his benefit, or someone has broken into a granary…