Aula Orientalis 33/1 (2015) 127-140 (ISSN: 0212-5730) Recivido/received: 14/02/2015 Aceptado/accepgted: 09/03/2015 127 Syntax of Hittite mān “if / when” Andrej V. Sideltsev – Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Anatolian and Celtic Languages, Institute of Linguistics, B. Kislovskij per. 1/1 Abstract: The article explores the syntax of Hittite mān “if/when”. It is standardly supposed to be one of the few Hittite subordinators which is clause first/initial. I provide data that it can be clause second, just like virtually any other Hittite subordinator. The issue thereby sheds light on the more general issue of distribution of subordinators in clause initial/first vs clause second positions in Hittite which is argued to be a common ½ position. Keywords: Hittite, syntax, subordinators, topic, left dislocation, second position, clause initial/first position 1. Introduction It is well known that mān “if/when” is normally in the initial or first position in the Hittite clause 1 . It hosts Wackernagel clitics, but does not count when the first position for -ma or relative/indefinite pronouns or second position subordinators is determined: (1) MH/MS (CTH 261.II) KUB 26.17 obv. i 4' 2 mān d UTU–Š=I=ma kuwapi apāšila laḫḫiyai-zzi when majesty=my=but when himself go.on.a.campaign-3SG.PRS “When His Majesty himself, though, at any time goes on a campaign, …” 3 . Structurally, in the minimalist program, it can only be accounted for by assuming highly articulated left periphery with projections above ForceP in the specifier of one of which mān “if/when” sits. 1. CHD L-N, sub mān, Hoffner, Melchert 2008: 421. 2. Here and elsewhere only the clauses which are discussed are glossed. 3. Following Miller 2013: 130-1.