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Zusatztext There can be no doubt that this ambitious and higly successful work represents a milestone in the study of Rigvedic syntax and semantics. Informationen zum Autor John J. Lowe is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. He has published papers in a number of linguistic and philological journals, including Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Transactions of the Philological Society, and Historische Sprachforschung. Klappentext This book examines the syntax and semantics of several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. The author applies formal linguistic analysis to the data and produces a comprehensive formal model of how these participles are used. Zusammenfassung This book examines the syntax and semantics of several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language. The author applies formal linguistic analysis to the data and produces a comprehensive formal model of how these participles are used. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Rigvedic Sanskrit language 3: Lexical-Functional Grammar 4: The syntax of participles 5: The semantics of participles 6: The category of participles 7: Conclusion Appendix: Participles in the Indian Grammatical Tradition References Index
