Old Avestan Syntax and Stylistics With an Edition of the Texts 1st Edition by Martin West 3110253089 9783110253085
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ISBN 10: 3110253089
ISBN 13: 9783110253085
Author: Martin L. West
This is the first modern comprehensive account of the syntax of Old Avestan, the earliest known form of Iranian language, attested in the Gathas of Zarathushtra and the Liturgy in Seven Chapters. It is based on the most up-to-date understanding of the texts, while following traditional principles of grammatical analysis. There are also substantial sections on word order, stylistics, and figures of speech. Translations are provided for almost all passages quoted. The work will be welcomed by Iranianists as well as by historical linguists with wider Indo-European interests.
Table of contents:
I. The Structure of Discourse
Sentence and Clause in Old Avestan
Verbal and Nominal Predication
Interrogative sentences
Negation
II. Morphosyntax
Concord
Apposition
Nouns and Adjectives
Abstracta
Verbal Nouns (nomina agentis, actionis)
Nominal Composition as Syntax
Degrees of Comparison
Gender
Number
Singular
Dual
Plural
The Cases
Nominative
Accusative
Instrumental
Dative
Ablative
Genitive
Locative
Vocative
Pronouns
Personal pronouns and adjectives
Demonstrative pronouns
Demonstrative adverbs of manner, time, and place
Relative pronouns
Relative adverbs/conjunctions
Interrogative pronouns
Interrogative adverbs
Indefinite pronouns
Verbs
Person and Number
Voice
Aspect
The present: aorist opposition
The perfect
Tense and Modality
Present time
Future time
Past time
Mythical time
Potentiality
Prayers, wishes, aspirations
Requests, injunctions, prohibitions
Infinitives
Participles and Verbal Adjectives
Verbal adjectives in -ta-
Gerundives in -iia-
Verbal Modifiers (Preverbs)
Dependent Clauses
Relative clauses
Restrictive (defining)
Appositive (non-defining)
Features common to both restrictive and appositive clauses
The relative pronoun as quasi-article
Temporal clauses
Causal clauses
Comparative clauses
Final and consecutive clauses
Conditional clauses
Object clauses
Indirect statements and questions
Recapitulation: Uses of the Moods
Indicative and injunctive
Subjunctive
Optative
Imperative
Quotation of Direct Speech
Particles
Sentence particles
Relational particles
Focusing particles
III. Word Order
The Placing of Emphatic Elements
Initial position
Final position
Distribution of emphasis by distraction
The Placing of Unemphatic Elements
Enclitics
Unemphatic elements in initial position
Commatization
Order of Words within Cola
The contextual force field
Relative bulk
Subject, verb, object
Further remarks on verb placement
Subject and predicate in nominal sentences
Secondary (predicative) accusative
Datives
Attributive adjective
Dependent genitive
Other adnominals
Vocatives
Extension
Interlacing
IV. Stylistics
Economy of Expression
Pleonasm
Understatement (Litotes)
Rhetorical Questions
Parenthesis
Figures
Conjunction of contrary terms
Conjunction of related terms
Anaphora
Augmented triads
Appendix The Old Avestan Texts
A. The Verse Texts
B. The Yasna Haptaŋhāiti
Bibliography
Indexes
I. Avestan words
II. Passages
III. Topics
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