# Petra M. Goedegebuure 2010: The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base > Petra M. Goedegebuure, 2010. 10 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Babel und Bibel 4 (2010), pp. 949-981. Argues from the verbal prefix chain in… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK11B08GB/the-alignment-of-hattian-an-active-language-with-an-ergative Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages)Petra M. Goedegebuure 2010 **0** # The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base Petra M. Goedegebuure, 2010. **Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives** Article0 ## What it's used for here Babel und Bibel 4 (2010), pp. 949-981. Argues from the verbal prefix chain in the bilinguals that Hattic has active (semantic) alignment on an ergative base; counts 359 Hattic fragments of which 15 are bilingual. Author's PDF on her Chicago page. Used for the grammar and the corpus count. ## Cited by on this site 10 records [The Hattic-Hittite bilinguals from Hattusa (CTH 725 to 745)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/artifacts/ART0DEDTSESAFZK/the-hattic-hittite-bilinguals-from-hattusa-cth-725-to-745) ART [Language isolate](https://mysteriesdept.com/concepts/CPT0DEEBNN2HBN9/language-isolate) CPT [A century of comparison since Forrer isolated Hattic in 1919 has produced no accepted correspondence set with any…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEE9PYSWA8B/a-century-of-comparison-since-forrer-isolated-hattic-in-1919) Evidence EVD [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) Evidence EVD [In the bilinguals both an- and zero occur with intransitive verbs, and Goedegebuure ties the choice to whether the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/evidence/EVD0DEEB8JANVD5/in-the-bilinguals-both-an-and-zero-occur-with-intransitive) Evidence EVD [Hittite scribes of the Old Kingdom begin to write down Hattic recitations and translate some of them](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/events/EVT0DEDSP5ZDXQ3/hittite-scribes-of-the-old-kingdom-begin-to-write-down) EVT [Petra Goedegebuure argues for active alignment; Alexei Kassian proposes a Sino-Caucasian affiliation](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/events/EVT0DEDTB4MTEAT/petra-goedegebuure-argues-for-active-alignment-alexei) EVT [Petra M. Goedegebuure](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/people/FIG0DEDS2BZFM4M/petra-m-goedegebuure) FIG [Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages) The mystery article MYS [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) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Petra M. Goedegebuure (2010). The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base. https://voices.uchicago.edu/goedegebuure/files/2020/05/Goedegebuure-Hattian-Alignment.pdf ``` [Find it at voices.uchicago.edu](https://voices.uchicago.edu/goedegebuure/files/2020/05/Goedegebuure-Hattian-Alignment.pdf) Key **SRC** 0DEDK11B08GB Kind Journal article Rights The publisher's Kept 31 Oct 2026, for editors Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK11B08GB/the-alignment-of-hattian-an-active-language-with-an-ergative/csl.json)