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Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit : the syntax and semantics of adjectival verb forms / John J. Lowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, John J. (John Jeffrey), 1982- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; Volume 17.
- Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; Volume 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vedic language--Semantics, Historical.
- Vedic language.
- Vedic language--Syntax.
- Vedic language--Participle.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The Rigvedic Sanskrit language
- Lexical-functional grammar
- The syntax of participles
- The semantics of participles
- The category of participles.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-100505-3
- 0-19-177063-9
- OCLC:
- 919190594
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