A look at some (alleged) morpho-syntactic isoglosses between Greek and Anatolian: the modal particle in epic Greek

In their recent discussion of the (alleged) Graeco-Anatolian Sprachbund Domenica Romagno listed three and Michele Bianconi four possible morpho-syntactic isoglosses between Anatolian and Greek (Romagno [2015: 436-440], Bianconi [2015: 149-160]). In this extensive article the author address one of them: the use of a modal particle (MP henceforth) to indicate potential, futurative and counterfactual meaning (in the terminology of Classical Philology the term “irrealis” is used), in Greek this is ἄν and in Hittite man.