Il costrutto “sthā- + participio presente”: brevi osservazioni su una perifrasi aspettuale vedica
The periphrasis “sthā- + present participle” was described by Berthold Delbrück in his Altindische Syntax [1888]. Such a construction would indicate the persistency in the action and the verb ‘stay’ would play the role of an auxiliary form. The present paper analyses a group of brāhmanic passages in...
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| description | The periphrasis “sthā- + present participle” was described by Berthold Delbrück in his Altindische Syntax [1888]. Such a construction would indicate the persistency in the action and the verb ‘stay’ would play the role of an auxiliary form. The present paper analyses a group of brāhmanic passages in order to confirm the scholar’s hypothesis (which was based on two sole examples) and enlarge the corpus known so far: in fact, brāhmanic prose shows texts which are less ambiguous and more perspicuous than poetry.
KEYWORDS: Vedic, aspectual periphrases, syntax, stay, auxiliary verbs |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c52c1a5c167941c59a62289fa34645ec2023-12-02T15:15:45ZengMilano University PressAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese1972-99012019-03-01201611 n.s.10.13130/1972-9901/11423Il costrutto “sthā- + participio presente”: brevi osservazioni su una perifrasi aspettuale vedicaRosa RonzittiThe periphrasis “sthā- + present participle” was described by Berthold Delbrück in his Altindische Syntax [1888]. Such a construction would indicate the persistency in the action and the verb ‘stay’ would play the role of an auxiliary form. The present paper analyses a group of brāhmanic passages in order to confirm the scholar’s hypothesis (which was based on two sole examples) and enlarge the corpus known so far: in fact, brāhmanic prose shows texts which are less ambiguous and more perspicuous than poetry. KEYWORDS: Vedic, aspectual periphrases, syntax, stay, auxiliary verbshttps://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/11423 |
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| title_short | Il costrutto “sthā- + participio presente”: brevi osservazioni su una perifrasi aspettuale vedica |
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