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On syntactic diagnostics as tests for telicity in ancient Indo-European languages. Evidence from Vedic and Greek
2017
The aim of this paper is to assay the reliability of completive and durative adverbials as linguistic tests for telicity in a historical perspective. Until now such tests have been applied only to contemporary languages, which provide both written and spoken corpora. However, if the compatibility with for/in-adverbials is a reliable test, it should function not only crosslinguistically, but also with ancient and reconstructed languages. I will use digital corpora of Vedic Sanskrit and Homeric Greek texts to explore the compatibility of temporal expressions with a selected sample of verbs that derive from a previous Indo-European common stage.
Deissi spaziale e verbi di movimento in vedico
2016
This study is part of a broader research project on temporal and spatial deixis in the Proto-Indo-European language. Specifically, the aim of this paper is to investigate the basic motion verbs go and come in Vedic. The deictic component of PATH has often been considered as inherent to the lexical semantics of these verbs cross-linguistically. However, I will show that Vedic i “go”, gā “go; come; step” and gam “go; come” express a deictically-neutral meaning of ‘moving along a path’, which is not characterized with regard to both MANNER and PATH. Data suggest that these verbs can take on a deictic interpretation by cooccurring with specific particles, adverbs, demonstratives, and personal p…
Proto-Indo-European verbal suppletion and emerging paradigms
2008
The existence of suppletion in a Proto-Indo-European language is still a question of debate (García Ramón 2002). While the evidence for such a phenomenon has been widely recognized within the verbal system of most Indo-European languages, some scholars describe it as a recent monoglot development which characterizes the history of each single language without involving a previous common stage. According to Strunk (1977), the hypothesis of a PIE suppletive paradigm based on the alternation of verbal roots such as *es- and *bhu- “be”, or *ei-/i- and *gwa-/ gwem - “go”, must be ruled out because it violates the so-called criterium-b, i.e. complementary distribution of the forms involved in a s…
A proposito della collocazione dell'accento su certi composti di tipo bahuvrihi in vedico e in greco antico
2010
Una discussione sui composti non prescinde mai dalla sistemazione di essi proposta dalla grammatica indiana. Secondo la terminologia da questa introdotta i composti oggi detti possessivi erano chiamati bahuvrihi (es. hiranyaparna "dalle ali d'oro"). Il lavoro è dedicato a una specifica questione relativa alla collocazione dell'accento in certi composti del tipo bahuvrihi. Coincidenze nella collocazione dell'accento sui composti greci e indiani antichi erano già state notate da altri. Gli autori hanno provato a verificare se il fenomeno dell'accentazione del suffisso, riscontrabile nei bahuvrihi del Rig Veda, sia presente e in che termini nel greco antico.