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Reduplication and Aspect in Old Indo-Aryan
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Reduplication process is one of the fundamental morphophonemic means of forming aspectual and actional stems in Old Indo-Aryan. There is a reduplicative Imperfective stem (present), Perfective stem (aorist) and Stative / Perfect stem. Two important actional categories Desiderative and Intensive derivatives are also formed by partial reduplication. Far reaching correspondences with Old Iranian and Greek state of affairs indicate that we can project the strategy of reduplication in the formation of aspectual contrasts back to (late) PIE. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate in detail how different types of vowel-copying distinguish these stems and how ablaut quality of a reduplicative syllable corresponds to different stem-types. A special attention will be payed to the reduplicative aorist with iterative meaning limited to the IA family without an Indo-European ancestry. |
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