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Reihe: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 196 Seiten
Reihe: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;Abbreviations;12
4;I. The Structure of Discourse;14
4.1;Sentence and Clause in Old Avestan;15
4.2;Verbal and Nominal Predication;16
4.3;Interrogative sentences;17
4.4;Negation;18
5;II. Morphosyntax;22
5.1;Concord;22
5.2;Apposition;23
5.3;Nouns and Adjectives;24
5.3.1;Abstracta;25
5.3.2;Verbal Nouns (nomina agentis, actionis);26
5.3.3;Nominal Composition as Syntax;27
5.3.4;Degrees of Comparison;28
5.3.5;Gender;29
5.3.6;Number;30
5.3.6.1;Singular;30
5.3.6.2;Dual;30
5.3.6.3;Plural;31
5.3.7;The Cases;31
5.3.7.1;Nominative;32
5.3.7.2;Accusative;33
5.3.7.3;Instrumental;37
5.3.7.4;Dative;42
5.3.7.5;Ablative;46
5.3.7.6;Genitive;49
5.3.7.7;Locative;53
5.3.7.8;Vocative;56
5.4;Pronouns;57
5.4.1;Personal pronouns and adjectives;57
5.4.2;Demonstrative pronouns;59
5.4.2.1;Demonstrative adverbs of manner, time, and place;62
5.4.3;Relative pronouns;63
5.4.3.1;Relative adverbs/conjunctions;63
5.4.4;Interrogative pronouns;64
5.4.4.1;Interrogative adverbs;65
5.4.5;Indefinite pronouns;65
5.5;Verbs;66
5.5.1;Person and Number;66
5.5.2;Voice;67
5.5.3;Aspect;68
5.5.3.1;The present: aorist opposition;69
5.5.3.2;The perfect;71
5.5.4;Tense and Modality;72
5.5.4.1;Present time;72
5.5.4.2;Future time;74
5.5.4.3;Past time;76
5.5.4.4;Mythical time;77
5.5.4.5;Potentiality;78
5.5.4.6;Prayers, wishes, aspirations;79
5.5.4.7;Requests, injunctions, prohibitions;80
5.5.5;Infinitives;81
5.5.6;Participles and Verbal Adjectives;85
5.5.6.1;Verbal adjectives in -ta-;88
5.5.6.2;Gerundives in -iia-;88
5.5.7;Verbal Modifiers (Preverbs);89
5.6;Dependent Clauses;90
5.6.1;Relative clauses;90
5.6.1.1;Restrictive (defining);90
5.6.1.2;Appositive (non-defining);92
5.6.1.3;Features common to both restrictive and appositive clauses;93
5.6.1.4;The relative pronoun as quasi-article;95
5.6.2;Temporal clauses;96
5.6.3;Causal clauses;98
5.6.4;Comparative clauses;99
5.6.5;Final and consecutive clauses;99
5.6.6;Conditional clauses;100
5.6.7;Object clauses;101
5.6.8;Indirect statements and questions;102
5.7;Recapitulation: Uses of the Moods;103
5.7.1;Indicative and injunctive;103
5.7.2;Subjunctive;104
5.7.3;Optative;104
5.7.4;Imperative;105
5.8;Quotation of Direct Speech;105
5.9;Particles;106
5.9.1;Sentence particles;107
5.9.2;Relational particles;110
5.9.3;Focusing particles;112
6;III. Word Order;118
6.1;The Placing of Emphatic Elements;119
6.1.1;Initial position;119
6.1.2;Final position;121
6.1.3;Distribution of emphasis by distraction;121
6.2;The Placing of Unemphatic Elements;123
6.2.1;Enclitics;123
6.2.2;Unemphatic elements in initial position;124
6.3;Commatization;125
6.4;Order of Words within Cola;126
6.4.1;The contextual force field;126
6.4.2;Relative bulk;128
6.4.3;Subject, verb, object;129
6.4.4;Further remarks on verb placement;130
6.4.5;Subject and predicate in nominal sentences;133
6.4.6;Secondary (predicative) accusative;133
6.4.7;Datives;133
6.4.8;Attributive adjective;134
6.4.9;Dependent genitive;136
6.4.10;Other adnominals;136
6.4.11;Vocatives;137
6.5;Extension;139
6.6;Interlacing;141
7;IV. Stylistics;144
7.1;Economy of Expression;145
7.2;Pleonasm;147
7.3;Understatement (Litotes);147
7.4;Rhetorical Questions;148
7.5;Parenthesis;148
7.6;Figures;150
7.6.1;Conjunction of contrary terms;150
7.6.2;Conjunction of related terms;151
7.6.3;Anaphora;152
7.6.4;Augmented triads;155
8;Appendix The Old Avestan Texts;156
8.1;A. The Verse Texts;156
8.2;B. The Yasna Hapta.haiti;185
9;Bibliography;190
10;Indexes;192
10.1;I. Avestan words;192
10.2;II. Passages;193
10.3;III. Topics;194
