The Vedic - ya -presents

Passives and intransitivity in Old Indo-Aryan

Bibliographic Data

ID23158665
AuthorsLeonid Kulikov, Леонид Куликов (0000-0002-7825-4866, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages1024
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueVedic -Ya-Presents (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789401207973
OpenAlexW645961703
ISBN9789401207973
Open LibraryOL29655000M
LanguageEN
Citations received16

This book is the first comprehensive study of the Vedic present formations with the suffix -ya- (‘-ya-presents’ for short), including both present passives with the accented suffix -yá- and non-passive -ya-presents with the accent on the root (class IV in the Indian tradition). It offers a complete survey of all ya-presents attested in the Vedic corpus. The main issue in the spotlight of this monograph is the relationship between form (accent placement, diathesis) and function (passive/non-passive) in the system of the -ya-presents – one of the most solidly attested present classes in Sanskrit. One of the aims of the present study is to corroborate the systematic correlation between accent placement and the passive/non-passive distinction: passives bear the accent on the suffix, while non-passives have the accent on the root. The book also focuses on the position of the passive within the system of voices and valency-changing categories in Old Indo-Aryan.

Art · Index (typography) · Linguistics · Literature · Prefix · Root (linguistics) · Sanskrit · Stress (linguistics) · Suffix · Transitive relation · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Indo-aryan languages · Word formation

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