The book goes on to mention that Hittite, Luwian, Palaic and Hurrian all show the same overall typological constraints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan] Reference

There also occurs in Palaic a certain malitannaš to which Carruba remarks in the lexicon portion of his Das Palaische: Texte, Grammatik, Lexikon 1970:63.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

With the discovery of Hittite and other languages such as Luwian, Lycian, Lydian and Palaic, it was shown that h2 and h3 didn't entirely disappear in all IE languages, remaining "h" in this Anatolian branch of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

I mean, it's not like it adds much new interpretation to the dataset; like he says 'wobei das Suffix noch unklar ist', but given the weird association of Palaic with the Hattic Ritual texts (as far as we're able to tell, anyway), that might have something to help your argument there if you want some sociolinguistic reason (e.g. some possible cult connection).    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

3 Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor‎ (2008), p.42 (see link) concerning Palaic: "The absence of examples of initial /y/ is surely accidental, but the lack of initial /r/ is systematic, as elsewhere in the ancient Anatolian languages." (identical to Melchert's statement in 1994:206).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference