On the plural and dual in Sogdian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2793282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Sims-Williams (0000-0002-7444-2376, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 337-346 |
| Publication date | 1979-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00145896 |
| OpenAlex | W1974720136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 9 |
As a result of the gradual attrition of final syllables, which caused the Old Iranian nominal plural endings to become insufficiently distinct from those of the singular, the plural was extensively remodelled in almost all Middle and New Iranian languages. Such renovation could come about in two ways. Either the more distinctive pl. inflexions, such as the gen. *-ānām or the instr. and dat. forms containing *b, could be extended or adapted to supply other cases, as happened in Parthian, Šuγnī, etc., or the old pl. could be replaced by a surrogate pl. derived from a sg. collective noun. The latter process is well illustrated by Sogdian, where the usual pi. suffix is -t (oblique -ty) after heavy stems, -t- (obl. -ty') after light stems. As is indicated by the inflexion, which is that of an old ā-stem, and by the fact that f. sg. forms of the articles and demonstratives are used with pl. nouns, this suffix derives from that of the OIr. f. abstract-collective nouns in *-tā
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |