Palaic is a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. Its entire text corpus was found in the Hittite city Hattusas. The corpus consists of rituals and mythological texts written on cuneiform tablets (CTH 751-754). Its corpus is limited and many lexemes are preserved only incompletely. Among the few attested adjectives, none can with certainity be said to have a valence exponent.

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