The Vedic "ya" presents : : passives and intransitivity in Old Indo-Aryan / / Leonid Kulikov.

• Author: Kulikov, L. I.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden Studies in Indo-European 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1015 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the Vedic present formations with the suffix ya (‘ ya -presents’ for short), including both present passives with the accented suffix yá and non-passive - ya -presents with the accent on the root (class IV in the Indian tradition). It offers a complete survey of all ya -presents attested in the Vedic corpus. The main issue in the spotlight of this monograph is the relationship between form (accent placement, diathesis) and function (passive/non-passive) in the system of the - ya -presents – one of the most solidly attested present classes in Sanskrit. One of the aims of the present study is to corroborate the systematic correlation between accent placement and the passive/non-passive distinction: passives bear the accent on the suffix, while non-passives have the accent on the root. The book also focuses on the position of the passive within the system of voices and valency-changing categories in Old Indo-Aryan.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Vedic -ya-formations: preliminaries -- Syntactic and semantic preliminaries -- Corpus of texts and evaluation of evidence -- The structure of the survey of -ya-presents -- Middle -ya-presents with suffix accentuation -- Middle -ya-presents with root accentuation -- Middle -ya-presents with fluctuating accentuation -- Unaccented middle -ya-presents -- Active -ya-presents -- Cyáti presents -- Morphophonological classes of -ya-stems -- Semantics of -ya-presents -- Transitivity alternations and paradigmatic oppositions within the system of -ya-presents -- Remarks on paradigmatic properties of -ya-presents -- -ya-passives and other passive formations -- Diathesis fluctuations in -ya-presents -- Vedic -ya-presents in a diachronic perspective -- Post-Vedic -ya-presents: a selection -- Vedic quasi-denominatives and their passives -- -yá-passives and other formations attested in the passive usage: a synopsis -- Texts -- Secondary Literature -- Abbreviations -- Index Verborum -- Index Locorum -- Index Rerum.