Reflexivity in Vedic / by Veronica Orqueda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orqueda, Verónica, author.

Series:

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics 08.

Brill's studies in historical linguistics, 2211-4904 ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vedic language--Reflexives.

Vedic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill , 2019.

Summary:

Reflexivity in Vedic offers a corpus-based synchronic and diachronic analysis of reflexivity in the language of the R̥gveda and Atharvaveda , two of the most ancient corpora ever composed in an Indo-European language. Applying a functional and cognitivist framework, Verónica Orqueda discusses the different possible strategies and proposes a distribution determined by the interaction between reflexivity, transitivity and valency. This study enriches typological approaches to the emergence of reflexives and therefore, on the basis of the Vedic data, it shows that nominal reflexive strategies may especially arise in contexts of underspecified verbal valency.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Preface and Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Languages and Texts

Some Observations Regarding the Cited Vedic Examples

Introduction

Theoretical Bases and Problematic Issues Regarding Reflexivity

The Vedic Language and Its Texts

Middle Voice

SVÁ- and SVAYÁM

TANŪ-

ĀTMÁN- and TMÁN-

Final Observations

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index of Cited Texts.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, from Complutense University of Madrid in July 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004362390

9004362398

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004362390 DOI