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- Title
The Indo-Iranian cákri-type.
- Authors
GRESTENBERGER, LAURA
- Abstract
This paper discusses the Indo-Iranian reduplicated i-adjectives of the type Ved. cákri-, Av. caxri- 'doing'. These adjectives are formally associated with the weak stem of the corresponding perfect, but their lexical semantics are not always those expected of an adjectival derivative of the perfect stem. A subgroup of forms is associated with synchronically resultative perfects (cákri-: cak...ra, jágmi-: jag...ma, etc.), but pattern functionally as present participles, often with iterative or intensive readings. I show that these "form-meaning mismatch" formations share a number of syntactic properties (accusative case objects, adverbial modification) both in Vedic and in Avestan and are likely to be the starting point of the type. I conclude from this that the synchronic association of the cákri-type with the perfect stem is secondary, and that its original derivational basis must have been a different reduplicated verbal (or nominal) category. I furthermore provide arguments that this cannot be one of the synchronic Indo-Iranian reduplicated verbal categories (e.g., the reduplicated present).
- Subjects
VEDIC language; HINDU civilization; INDO-Iranian languages; INDO-Iranians; SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages; LEXICOLOGY; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2013, Vol 133, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jameroriesoci.133.2.0269