RT Article
T1 „Halte (dein) Ohr geneigt und höre mir zu!“: Zur hethitischen Phraseologie der Kommunikation zwischen Menschen und Göttern
JF Die Welt des Orients
VO 44
IS 2
SP 174
OP 189
A1 Dardano, Paola
LA German
PB Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785690213
AB "Fixed expressions" in Hittite, in particular the subset containing terms of body parts, still continue to pose problems. Starting from the examples attested in rituals and prayers, this paper is aimed at elucidating the use of predicative constructions made up of the verbs lagand nai- 'to turn' or parā epp- 'to proffer' with the nouns ištaman(a)- 'ear' or šakui- 'eye' as direct object. It will be suggested that in the interaction between gods and humans these redundant constructions have an emphatic purpose, and that their use is consistent with the some morpho-syntactic reasons which determine the distribution of verbal stems in -ške-, ḫark- constructions, and adverbs.