Controversial Provision for the Nominative Ending
Nominal Sentences and Aṣṭādhyāyī 2.3.46
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3963320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Davide Mocci (0009-0006-2344-2049, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia), Tiziana Pontillo (0000-0002-2700-5536, University of Cagliari) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | American Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.1.0047 |
| OpenAlex | W3148150717 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The present joint contribution offers a tentative comprehensive re-interpretation of Pāṇini's rule A 2.3.46, and shows how that rule teaches the application of the nominative ending without making use of the notion of "subject," a notion that belongs to other grammatical systems, but not to Pāṇini's. We discuss the controversial domain of some segments of its wording by attempting to adhere to Pāṇini's framework and his usus scribendi. In particular, we read the first constituent of the compound prātipadikārtha liṅgaparimāṇavacana as a genitive (prātipadikasya) depending on a dvandva made up of three constituents, i.e., artha, liṅga, and parimāṇavacana, and we take parimāṇa as denoting a quantity ('one', 'two', or 'many') that, combining with vacana ('signifying'), is substantially equivalent to the concept of grammatical number in modern linguistics. We finally show that our reading of A 2.3.46 is able to generate the nominative endings affixed to the subject and (nominal) predicate of a nominal sentence: as a consequence, nominal sentences might actually not have been neglected by Pāṇini
Genitive case · Linguistics · Nominative case · Noun · Predicate (mathematical logic · Predicative expression · Programming language · Reading (process · Sentence · Subject (documents · Verb · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |