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Coenen, Pascal ORCID: 0000-0003-2885-1336 and Frotscher, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-2859-8230 (2020). The nominative/vocative plural of Vedic masculine a-stems in complex nominal expressions. Indogermanische Forschungen, 125 (1). 165 - 215. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1613-0405

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Abstract

In Vedic Sanskrit, masculine a-stem nominals exhibit two different forms of the NOM/VOC.PL., a short form (ending in -as) and a long form (ending in -asas). In this article, we will argue that the scope of this variation is not a single nominal but the entire noun phrase. This means that whereas the short form may occur several times in a noun phrase, the long form is either absent or occurs only once. From a functional point of view, complex noun phrases containing one long form are equivalent to simple noun phrases consisting of one long form. In contrast, complex noun phrases containing only short forms are equivalent to simple noun phrases consisting of one short form. The presence or absence of the long form marks the presence or absence of a certain linguistic feature, the exact nature of which still has to be determined. We will argue that in those cases in which two long forms occur in relative proximity to each other, they either have to, or at least can be interpreted as being part of two distinct noun phrases. In order to do so, we will apply morphological, semantic, syntactic as well as stylistic and metrical criteria.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Coenen, Pascal UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2885-1336 UNSPECIFIED Frotscher, Michael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2859-8230 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-312957
DOI:	10.1515/if-2020-009
Journal or Publication Title:	Indogermanische Forschungen
Volume:	125
Number:	1
Page Range:	165 - 215
Date:	2020
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1613-0405
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31295