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- Title
Transitive Nominals in Old Avestan.
- Authors
LOWE, JOHN J.
- Abstract
Old Avestan, like other Old lndo-lranian languages, appears to attest a variety of nouns and adjectives that display "verbal" government of accusative case "objects." However the existence of such "transitive" nominals is problematic from a formal linguistic perspective, and indeed some formal linguistic models have denied their existence. In this paper 1 reconsider both the formal arguments concerning transitive nominals and the Old Avestan evidence, with the aim of establishing a more precise analysis of this aspect of Old Avestan syntax.
- Subjects
AVESTAN language; IRANIAN languages; INDO-Iranian languages; TRANSITIVITY (Grammar); NOMINALS (Grammar); LINGUISTIC models; GRAMMAR
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2014, Vol 134, Issue 4, p553
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jameroriesoci.134.4.553