Introduction

Abstract

The parwala-men of the king gave one talent of copper (and) three animal-shaped vessels of beads (containing) one-half BÁN of beads. In addition, the parwala-men of the king gave three talents of copper, x talents of tin, two copper pipes, six copper sickles, 昀椀ve copper wakšur-vessels, and two oxshaped vessels of beads (containing) one-half BÁN of beads." iv. Hittite dataFor purposes of the present study, lexemes with collective meaning have been collected from the dictionaries and their attestations were checked in the Arbeitsstelle "Hethitische Forschungen" of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. 3 As a result, 29 examples of collective subjects in the singular (Controller) followed by plural predicate verbs (Target) have been found: KUB 21.1 i 63' (hist.) KUB 46.22 i 7'f. (inv.) KUB 6.41 i 25 (hist.) KBo 2.13 obv. 10 (inv.) KBo 5.6 i 15f. (hist.) KBo 2.13 obv. 11 (inv.) KUB 1.1 i 30 (hist.) KBo 2.13 obv. 19 (inv.) KUB 19.10 i 6' (hist.) KBo 2.13 rev. 3f. (inv.) KBo 3.4 iv 36'f. (hist.) KBo 2.7 obv. 26' (inv.) KUB 11.13 v 25' (rit.) KUB 17.35 i 5' (inv.) KUB 1.14 ii 8'f. (rit.) KUB 17.35 i 33' (inv.) KUB 46.27 i 13' (rit.) KUB 17.35 ii 27'f. (inv.) KUB 39.4+ rev. 27f. (rit.) KUB 17.35 iv 13 (inv.) KUB 22.70 rev. 51f. (or.) KUB 17.35 iv 24' (inv.) KUB 22.70 rev. 54f. (or.) KUB 17.35 iv 25' (inv.) KUB 16.16 obv. 13' (or.) KUB 41.34 i 6'f. (inv.) KUB 40.95 ii 5f. (inv.) KBo 2.8 ii 2 (inv.