Infinitivos y nombres verbales en Hitita: un analysis morfosintactico y semantico

This article presents an analysis of infinitives and verbal nouns in Hittite, with the aim of identifying possible similarities and differences. The main objective of the study is therefore to explore the morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of these non-finite verbal forms. Nominal forms of the verb such as infinitives and verbal nouns can be considered mixed categories, which display both verbal and nominal properties to a different extent. This paper aims to offer some observations on the relationship between the infinitives in -anna and -wanzi (-manzi) and the verbal nouns in -(ā)tar and -war (-mar), which sometimes perform the same function (e.g., purpose or deontic), but also show significant differences (e.g., verbal or nominal government).