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- Title
THE RGVEDIC PASSIVE AORIST IN -I A FUNCTIONAL STUDY.
- Authors
Migron, Saul
- Abstract
The Sanskrit (medio) passive 3rd person singular aorist in -i has elicited some unusual epithets from scholars past and present. The present study is an attempt to draw a functional profile of the passive aorist (PA) in the Rgveda. It is suggested that the PA is indeed a passive. It was also shown that it is a "perfect", i.e. that its aspectual role is to focus the hearer's attention on the moment at which the Einwirkung has been accomplished, has become a fact of some consequence to him. This pinpointing of the moment of emergence is responsible for the dramatic, almost triumphant nuance felt in many PA-clauses.
- Subjects
SANSKRIT language; INDO-Aryan languages; VEDIC language; LANGUAGE &; languages; LINGUISTICS; COMPARATIVE grammar
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 1975, Vol 8, Issue 1-4, p271
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/flin.1975.8.1-4.271