Time Tense And Aspect In Early Vedic Grammar
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Time Tense And Aspect In Early Vedic Grammar
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Author : Eystein Dahl
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-06-14
Time Tense And Aspect In Early Vedic Grammar written by Eystein Dahl and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-14 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Drawing on insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, this book presents a comprehensive account of the tense/aspect/mood system in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. It also outlines a theoretical framework for the study of semantics in dead languages.
Historical Linguistics 2015
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Author : Michela Cennamo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Historical Linguistics 2015 written by Michela Cennamo and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.
Participles In Rigvedic Sanskrit
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Author : John J. Lowe
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-04-23
Participles In Rigvedic Sanskrit written by John J. Lowe and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics. The Rigveda is an ancient collection of sacred Indian hymns, written in Vedic Sanskrit, and is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. It is also a poetic text in which deliberate obscurity is the governing aesthetic and in which the rules of language are pushed to their limits in order to produce the ideal poetic expression. Many Vedic sentences are of controversial, disputed meaning, and Vedic scholarship is thus fraught with controversy. John J. Lowe applies formal linguistic analysis to the data and produces a comprehensive formal model of how participles are used. The author uses his findings to recategorize the data, by defining certain stems and stem-types as outside the synchronic category of participle on the basis of their syntactic and semantic properties. He suggests alternative sources for these forms and considers the linguistic processes that transformed old participles into non-participial entities. In his conclusion he reassesses the category of participles within the verbal and nominal systems, looks at their prehistory in Proto-Indo-European, and describes their universal, typological characteristics. Among his conclusions are that tense-aspect-stem participles have the technical properties of adjectival verbs, not verbal adjectives, and that such participles are not fully dependent on corresponding finite verbal forms. That is, a perfect participle, for example, need not share all the semantic and functional features of the finite perfect forms built to the same stem. These and many other conclusions drawn either directly challenge or radically revise received opinion and recent work.
Development Of Tense And Aspect Systems
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Author : Jadranka Gvozdanović
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-08-04
Development Of Tense And Aspect Systems written by Jadranka Gvozdanović and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Linguistic construal of time lies at the center of language and language use; it is also one of the cognitive foundations of culture. The focus of the papers in this volume is on historical developments of genetically different aspect and tense systems across continents, with contributions on the Sogeram languages of Papua New Guinea, the Arandic languages of Australia, Kisikongo Bantu, and Japanese. In addition, two prototypical Indo-European tense-aspect systems, those of Vedic and Latin, are analyzed in a comparative perspective. Across language groups and continents, the general principles revealed by the studies presented here contribute towards a novel and deepening understanding of tense and aspect. They contribute not only to modelling and theory, but also to a better understanding of processes in individual languages. Originally published as special issue of the Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:2 (2020).
Vedic And Sanskrit Historical Linguistics
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Author : Jared Klein
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Vedic And Sanskrit Historical Linguistics written by Jared Klein and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume contains 10 articles based on papers presented at the Linguistics sessions of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference (Edinburgh, July 2006) and shows the engagement of scholars with all aspects of Vedic Grammar, including phonology, inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, and stylistics. In many cases the articles constitute integral parts of long-term research projects of their authors that are ongoing even at this date of publication and therefore present the broad sweep of the field of Vedic linguistics as it is currently being practiced. The contributions include two on phonology (Kobayashi and Kummel), two on morphology (Garcia Ramon and Tucker), three on syntax (Bubenik, Hettrich, and Hock), one on the semantics of tense and aspect (Dahl), one on lexicography (Krisch), and one on stylistics (Klein). In several instances these papers fit integrally into the research agendas of their authors, representing parts of larger projects reflected in recent publications (Bubenik, Dahl, Garcia Ramon, Hettrich, Klein, Kobayashi) or deal with issues touched on repeatedly by their authors over a number of years (Hock). In one case (Krisch), the work announced has in the interim begun to appear and represent a broad reflection of research projects currently underway in Sanskrit Linguistics. That all but one of the papers focus exclusively on Vedic is simply a reflection of the reality that in Western countries the study of Sanskrit has frequently been treated as an entree to Indo-European linguistics, and it is especially the oldest texts that have been mined for whatever nuggets they can yield relative to our understanding of the proto-language. Already Published :- Vol. I : Scientific Literature in Sanskrit - Eds. S.R. Sarma & Gyula Wojtilla Vol. II : Battle, Bards and Brahmins - Ed. John Brockington
Proceedings Of The 31st Annual Ucla Indo European Conference
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Author : David M. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag
Release Date : 2021-06-23
Proceedings Of The 31st Annual Ucla Indo European Conference written by David M. Goldstein and has been published by Helmut Buske Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Inhalt: Miyu Akao: Internal and External Factors behind the Development of the Tocharian Secondary Cases Milena Anfosso: The Phrygians from Βρίγες to Φρύγες: Herodotus 7.73, or the Linguistic Problems of a Migration Roberto Batisti: On Greek Αἰθίοψ 'Ethiopian' and Αἴσωπος 'Aesop' from a PIE Perspective James Clackson: The Latin and Oscan Imperfect Subjunctive in *-sē- John Clayton: Rhinoglottophilia in Avestan: *h > [h̃] and Its Orthographic and Phonological Consequences Ashwini Deo: Copular Contrasts in Indo-Aryan Diachrony Petra M. Goedegebuure: The Fat and the Furious: *w(o)rg̑- 'fat, furious, strong' and Derivatives in Hittite and Luwian Ian Hollenbaugh: Inceptives in Ancient Greek Ronald I. Kim: PIE Verbal Roots of the Shape *C(C)eH- in Old Armenian Jared S. Klein: Old Church Slavic obače and tŭk(ŭ)mo Laura Massetti: "Hermes and Hestia" Revisited: Hermes ἀκάκητα and the Funerary Fire Thomas Motter: Hittite Correlative Resumption as Discourse Anaphora Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi: Zeus Δέκτερος 'Benevolent, Welcoming' from Thera and Proto-Indo-European 'Right' Anthony D. Yates: The Phonology and Morphology of Anatolian *-mon-stems
Perfects In Indo European Languages And Beyond
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Author : Robert Crellin
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Perfects In Indo European Languages And Beyond written by Robert Crellin and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.
Indo Aryan Ergativity In Typological And Diachronic Perspective
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Author : Eystein Dahl
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-06-14
Indo Aryan Ergativity In Typological And Diachronic Perspective written by Eystein Dahl and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of Ergativity in the Indo-Aryan language family. It contains an introduction drawing on the most important recent typological and theoretical contributions to this field, plus seven papers about the origin, development and distribution of ergative alignment in ancient and modern Indo-Aryan languages written by well-established expert authors. The articles provide detailed explorations of language-specific synchronic systems or patterns of change, and large-scale studies of the distribution of ergative morphosyntax across the Indo-Aryan languages. The papers have a typological-functional approach and are based on thorough fieldwork experience and/or philological investigation. As the Indo-Aryan language family has played a paramount role in recent theories of Ergativity and of alignment typology and change, this volume is highly relevant to experts working on these languages and to scholars interested in grammatical relations and it will figure in all future debates in these fields
Transitive Nouns And Adjectives
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Author : John Jeffrey Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Transitive Nouns And Adjectives written by John Jeffrey Lowe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and analysed from diachronic, typological, and theoretical perspectives.
The Role Of Semantic Pragmatic And Discourse Factors In The Development Of Case
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Author : Jóhanna Barðdal
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-11
The Role Of Semantic Pragmatic And Discourse Factors In The Development Of Case written by Jóhanna Barðdal and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification.