Some Forms of the Absolutive in Middle Indo-Aryan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3964905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L A Schwarzschild (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 111 |
| Publication date | 1956-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/595078 |
| OpenAlex | W2316703085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
TXE GERUND, or so-called conjunctive or absolutive participle is frequently used in the IndoAryan languages in all their stages of development, but it is particularly frequent in Middle Indo-Aryan. The constant repetition ole absolutives is well-known to be one of the maln features of Jaina Prakrit syntax. From a surveof the forms used it would appear as if there had be^3n a comparatively rapid turnover of forms in the liLerary languages, though perhaps more contilluitv in popular speech. Yedic had a number of forms for this particile, -tvi, -tva, -tvaya, as well as -ya,-tya, and the grammarians further quote the otherwise unattested -tvanam and -tvinam. These were reduced to two in Classical Sanskrit, -tva for simple verbs, -ya for compound verbs, though the Vedic forms seem to have survived in popular speech. In Middle IndoAryan there is a vast variety of forms, of which the more important are
Gerund · Linguistics · Noun · Participle · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Sanskrit · Syntax · Variety (cybernetics) · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |