28.3562, Books: Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Lowe

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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:38:34
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Lowe

 


Title: Transitive Nouns and Adjectives 
Subtitle: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transitive-nouns-and-adjectives-9780198793571 


Author: John Jeffrey Lowe

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198793571 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 95.00


Abstract:

This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the
existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon
which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur.
John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and adjectives attested in early
Indo-Aryan cannot be analysed as a type of non-finite verb category, but must
be acknowledged as a distinct constructional type. The volume provides a
detailed introduction to transitivity (verbal and adpositional), the
categories of agent and action noun, and to early Indo-Aryan. Four periods of
early Indo-Aryan are selected for study: Rigvedic Sanskrit, the earliest
Indo-Aryan; Vedic Prose, a slightly later form of Sanskrit; Epic Sanskrit, a
form of Sanskrit close to the standardized 'Classical' Sanskrit; and Pali, the
early Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Buddhist scriptures. John Lowe shows
that while each linguistic stage is different, there are shared features of
transitive nouns and adjectives which apply throughout the history of early
Indo-Aryan. The data is set in the wider historical context, from
Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and a formal linguistic analysis of
transitive nouns and adjectives is provided in the framework of
Lexical-Functional Grammar.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Indo-Aryan


Written In: English  (eng)

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