edkok

This adverb is attested once in a legal text that was found in the precinct of Artemis of Sardis.

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This demonstrative adverb occurs in a clause that immediately precedes a modal dependent clause headed by kot ‘as’. Consequently, it seems reasonable to assume that ed=ko=k represents a demonstrative counterpart of kot. The final element =k probably encoded universal quantification. Therefore, the construction ak=it edkok ẽtqratad can be translated along the lines ‘(he) will act in every such way’.

A different interpretation, ‘everything’, is proposed in proposed in Carruba 1960a:58 and seems to have been followed, with slight variations, in the subsequent translations of LW 23. The reason for this is presumably syntactic: this provides the Lydian clause in question with a direct object, which looks at first glance as the right solution given that it lacks an overt subject. Nevertheless, if one assumes that ak=it edkok ẽtqratad is an unergative construction (i.e. intransitive construction featuring agent as its only underlying argument), then the omission of a clitic subject pronoun in such a construction should not be surprising. At any rate, this seems to be less of a difficulty that assuming that ed=ko=k has not kot but the clitic pronoun =ad as its correlate.

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The segmentation of ed=ko(t)=k into the demonstrative morpheme ed(i)-, the relative adverb kot and the indefinite/generalizing marker =k appears to be straightforward. For the disappearance of t before k, see Gérard 2005a:77 with further literature. There is little merit in the segmentation ed(t)=ko(d)=k, attempted in Gusmani 1964a:153, since the parallel with kuko(d)=k yielding kukok is not certain: see under lemma.

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