Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Vedic -ya-formations: preliminaries
Syntactic and semantic preliminaries
Corpus of texts and evaluation of evidence
The structure of the survey of -ya-presents
A Survey of Vedic -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
A Systematic Analysis and Classification of -ya-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
Appendices
Post-Vedic -ya-presents: a selection
Vedic quasi-denominatives and their passives
-yá-passives and other formations attested in the passive usage: a synopsis
Bibliography
Texts
Secondary literature
Abbreviations
Indices
Index verborum
Index locorum
Index rerum
