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The present work aims at an analysis of the category of reflexivity in Anatolian languages, taking Hittite Reflexivpartikel =z(a) as a starting point and analysing its uses in the earliest period. The analysis also focuses on the other Anatolian languages with «clitic reflexive pronouns» (Luwian, Palaic, Lycian and Lydian), the uses of which will also be examined, touching on other topics relevant here, such as the possible use of a nominal head reflexive in Luvic and the traces of reflexive clitics in verbal desinences of the middle voice. Finally, the postulated framework for the proto-language is traced, accepting the hypothesis that reflexives originate from the pronominal system and explaining its various stages of formal and functional evolution.

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