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On the morphology of Indic gerunds

On the morphology of Indic gerunds ERIC P. HAMP O N T H E M O R P H O L O G Y OF I N D I C G E R U N D S The formation of gerunds in Indic, it is well known, was sharply dichotomized: The suffixation applied to simplexes differed totally from that applied to compound verbs, i.e. verb stems preceded b y adverbal particles. Thus we have a systematically suppletive inflexional paradigm. This synchronic Indic suppletion derived in turn, we shall see, from an Indo-European derivational suppletion; and the suppletion which resulted in the system o f gerund formation formed only a part of a much more pervasive system of Indo-European derivational deverbal suppletion. (1) The suffix added to simplexes was either -tva or -tv{ or -tl~aya; these seem to have been in a high degree interchangeable, and this state of affairs in the RV points to their partly moribund status whereby their earlier distinctive values were in tile process of being merged. The nearly exclusively RV suffix -tv{ is exemplified by k!'-tv{ 'having made', ga-tv\[ 'having gone', hi-tv\[ 'having abandoned' (~/hd-), bha-tv{ 'having become', and \]ani-tv{ 'having produced'. Notice that, with the exception of\]anitv{, the base http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

On the morphology of Indic gerunds

Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 29 (2): 103 – Jan 1, 1986

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Brill
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© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0019-7246
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1572-8536
DOI
10.1163/000000086790082127
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ERIC P. HAMP O N T H E M O R P H O L O G Y OF I N D I C G E R U N D S The formation of gerunds in Indic, it is well known, was sharply dichotomized: The suffixation applied to simplexes differed totally from that applied to compound verbs, i.e. verb stems preceded b y adverbal particles. Thus we have a systematically suppletive inflexional paradigm. This synchronic Indic suppletion derived in turn, we shall see, from an Indo-European derivational suppletion; and the suppletion which resulted in the system o f gerund formation formed only a part of a much more pervasive system of Indo-European derivational deverbal suppletion. (1) The suffix added to simplexes was either -tva or -tv{ or -tl~aya; these seem to have been in a high degree interchangeable, and this state of affairs in the RV points to their partly moribund status whereby their earlier distinctive values were in tile process of being merged. The nearly exclusively RV suffix -tv{ is exemplified by k!'-tv{ 'having made', ga-tv\[ 'having gone', hi-tv\[ 'having abandoned' (~/hd-), bha-tv{ 'having become', and \]ani-tv{ 'having produced'. Notice that, with the exception of\]anitv{, the base

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Published: Jan 1, 1986

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