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

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 s...

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Superior document:Leiden studies in Indo-European ; 19
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2012.
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.
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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.