Vedic preverbs as markers of valency-changing derivations : Transitivity and objecthood in Indo-European (Evidence from Old Indo-Aryan)

Kulikov, Leonid
(2012) Studies in Language : international journal sponsored by the foundation “Foundations of Language — Vol. 36, n° 4, p. 721-746 (2012)

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The present paper offers an analysis of the transitivizing and intransitivizing preverbs (semi-bound verbal prefixes) in Vedic Sanskrit. I will argue that the (in)transitivizing force of these morphemes is weak: the passivization test shows that transitivizing preverbs only exceptionally make fundamentally intransitive verbs true transitives, whilst the only intransitivizing preverb ví has but a rather limited valency-changing capacity.
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Kulikov, L. (2012). Vedic preverbs as markers of valency-changing derivations : Transitivity and objecthood in Indo-European (Evidence from Old Indo-Aryan). Studies in Language : international journal sponsored by the foundation “Foundations of Language, 36(4), 721-746. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.36.4.01kul (Original work published 2012)