Drifting between passive and anticausative. True and alleged accent shifts in the history of Vedic-ya-presents
(2011) Journal of Language Relationship / Voprosy jazykovogo rodstva 2011, No. 6: 185-198 — Vol. 6, n° 1, p. 185-198 (2011)
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- This paper focuses on the system of the Vedic present formations with the suffix -ya- and middle inflexion, paying special attention to the attested accent patterns. On the basis of a study of the paradigmatic and syntactic features of this verbal formation we can conclude that the traditional analysis of some members of this class in terms of the passive/non-passive (anticausative) opposition is inadequate. I will offer a short overview of the history of this class, concentrating, in particular, on several accent shifts which account for a number of exceptions to the general correlation between the semantics and accent placement (passives: accent on the suffix vs. non-passives: accent on the root). Some of these shifts can be dated to the prehistoric (Common Indo-Aryan?) period (cf. suffix accentuation in such non-passives as mriyáte ‘dies’), while some others must be features of certain Vedic dialects, dating to the period after the split of Common Indo-Aryan.
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Kulikov, L. (2011). Drifting between passive and anticausative. True and alleged accent shifts in the history of Vedic-ya-presents. Journal of Language Relationship / Voprosy jazykovogo rodstva 2011, No. 6: 185-198, 6(1), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234119-013 (Original work published 2011)