Osservazioni sulle correlative in vedico

The study of the structure of correlative sentences is of great importance in the context of Indo-European syntax, since this strategy of relativization is present in all earliest attested Indo-European languages, or, at least in the archaic phases of some of them. Interestingly, the model of extern...

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Main Author: Massimo Vai
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Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2014-03-01
Series:Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/3467
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description The study of the structure of correlative sentences is of great importance in the context of Indo-European syntax, since this strategy of relativization is present in all earliest attested Indo-European languages, or, at least in the archaic phases of some of them. Interestingly, the model of external-headed relative clauses is present today in Hindi, but it seems not to have ever developed in Vedic (nor in Hittite), in which any expression of (explicit) relative clauses must make use of the correlative  construction.   KEYWORDS: Vedic syntax, correlative clauses, Indo-European syntax, Indo-European relative clauses, hyperbaton
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spelling doaj.art-9579bbdd3d5142e482697f1ef03b993f2023-12-02T02:48:23ZengMilano University PressAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese1972-99012014-03-0120127 n.s.10.13130/1972-9901/3467Osservazioni sulle correlative in vedicoMassimo VaiThe study of the structure of correlative sentences is of great importance in the context of Indo-European syntax, since this strategy of relativization is present in all earliest attested Indo-European languages, or, at least in the archaic phases of some of them. Interestingly, the model of external-headed relative clauses is present today in Hindi, but it seems not to have ever developed in Vedic (nor in Hittite), in which any expression of (explicit) relative clauses must make use of the correlative  construction.   KEYWORDS: Vedic syntax, correlative clauses, Indo-European syntax, Indo-European relative clauses, hyperbatonhttps://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/3467
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title_full Osservazioni sulle correlative in vedico
title_fullStr Osservazioni sulle correlative in vedico
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