Ditransitive passive in Pāini

1.1. The terms sakarmaka a verb with an object, transitive and akarmaka a verb without an object, intransitive appear in PS.nini's grammar. While the later commentaries do use the term dvikarmaka ditransitive verb, the term does not itself appear in PS.nini's grammar. One can derive constructions with two or more objects in the case of causatives, with the so-called akathita non-characterized object, and with adverbial accusatives (the last one especially if one accepts the traditional dictum kriydvidesandndm. karmatvam). There are numerous syntactic issues relating to each of these constructions, and more so especially with their passives. In this paper, I wish to focus particularly on the traditional examples of akathita karman and discuss certain theoretical syntactic issues pertaining to their traditional explanation. A certain basic understanding of Pfmini's kdraka system is taken for granted

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  R M W Dixon, Frans Plank•Language•1986

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