Ebook: Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit : the syntax and semantics of adjectival verb forms
Author: Lowe John Jeffrey
- Tags: Vedic language -- Semantics Historical, Vedic language -- Syntax, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Miscellaneous
- Series: Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: First edition.
- Language: English
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This text examines the syntax and semantics of several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. The author applies formal linguistic analysis to the data and produces a comprehensive formal model of how these participles are used.