# Hattic is nominative-accusative, and the variation between an- and zero reflects other categories (tense, aspect or…

> Still possible: Hattic is nominative-accusative, and the variation between an- and zero reflects other categories (tense, aspect or scribal practice)…

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# Hattic is nominative-accusative, and the variation between an- and zero reflects other categories (tense, aspect or…

Hattic is nominative-accusative, and the variation between an- and zero reflects other categories (tense, aspect or scribal practice) rather than alignment.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The distribution of an- and zero with intransitive verbs will correlate with manuscript date, tense or clause type rather than with the agency of the subject.

## What would rule it out

- The agency-based distribution predicted by the active analysis holds across all bilinguals once manuscript date is controlled.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The earlier grammars of Kammenhuber and Girbal describe the prefix slots without an active or ergative alignment.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEEB9QDY2NC/the-earlier-grammars-of-kammenhuber-and-girbal-describe-the)

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[Goedegebuure rejects scribal error as the explanation for an- and zero with intransitive verbs and finds a semantic…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEEBAKSVBYG/goedegebuure-rejects-scribal-error-as-the-explanation-for-an)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Is the Hattic verb aligned actively, ergatively or accusatively, and what does each verbal prefix mark?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/questions/QST0DEDX2TX7CR0/is-the-hattic-verb-aligned-actively-ergatively-or)

Part of [What language family, if any, does Hattic belong to?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/questions/QST0DEDWJQ8EC4K/what-language-family-if-any-does-hattic-belong-to)

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