The Greek-Anatolian area in the 2nd millennium B.C.: between language contact, Indo-European inheritance and typologically natural tendencies

In this study, we investigated the shared linguistic features in the Greek-Anatolian area in the second millennium BC, with the aim of disentangling language contact phenomena from socioculturally-dependent traits, inherited aspects and properties that appear to have a strong crosslinguistic validity. Here we report the results of a study of some true and false morphosyntactic isoglosses: specifically, the function and distribution of Hittite modal particle man and Greek ἄν; verbal prefixation and the use of verbal particles in Greek and Hittite; the use of absolute genitive constructions in Greek, Sanskrit and Hittite.