The Sanskrit Auxiliary sthā- ‘stand’, with a Note on Avestan stā

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ID9893341
AuthorsBeatrice Grieco (0000-0001-8355-0080, Università di Roma La Sapienza Rome Italy, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume67
Issue2
Pages103-134
Publication date2024-03-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndo-Iranian Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-7246 • E-ISSN: 1572-8536
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15728536-06702001
OpenAlexW4392514347
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

Traditional grammars of Sanskrit briefly address the periphrastic use of the verbs i - ‘go’, car - ‘move’, ās - ‘sit’ and sthā - ‘stand’ plus participle or gerund, which convey the meaning ‘to be continually/habitually x’ (x = participle or gerund), but an in-depth analysis of this set of auxiliaries remains a desideratum. This paper specifically addresses the periphrasis formed with the posture verb sthā - ‘stand’. I will investigate the diachronic development of this construction from the Rig-Veda to the Late Vedic period, and I will additionally offer a brief overview of the construction in the Epic Sanskrit language. On the basis of a large diachronically-oriented corpus, I will show that the Rig-Veda does not provide clear evidence of periphrases, whereas in Late Vedic periphrases with sthā - have unambiguously emerged. Furthermore, the data will be compared with the Avestan stā - periphrasis, showing that these two periphrases share certain affinities. This analysis aims to show that there exists a close relationship between this set of periphrases and the intensive category

Art · Combinatorics · Epistemology · Ergative case · Gerund · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Participle · Programming language · Sanskrit · Set (abstract data type · Verb · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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