Definite referential null objects in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek

Keydana, Götz; Luraghi, Silvia

doi:10.1080/03740463.2013.776245

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“…20 As shown by Keydana (2009) and Keydana and Luraghi (2014), null objects do not necessarily refer to subjects or objects but can also refer to other constituents. Taking the genitive devā ˊnāṁ 'of the gods' as referent of the null object allows preserving the parallelism between the plural standard (yūthā ˊ 'flocks') and the plural comparee.…”

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“…While null subjects are at least partially recoverable through verbal morphology, definite referential direct objects can be omitted even if they are not indexed on the verb. The distribution of definite referential null objects in Vedic is described in Keydana (2009) and, with a comparison to the situation found in AG, in Keydana and Luraghi (2014).…”

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This article first shows that synchronic etymologising -a phenomenon that finds expression in Yāska's Nirukta and many other Indian texts -is in fact a universal phenomenon found in many (if not all) human cultures as well as in children. It then argues that the tendency to synchronic etymologising plays an essential role in the acquisition of language, a process we all went through in our childhood.

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“…9). Moreover, AG, as well as other ancient Indo-European languages, preferably or obligatorily selects null referential objects in certain syntactic and pragmatic contexts, including conjunct participles, coordinated verbs and clauses, and yes/no questions (Luraghi 2003;Haug 2012;Keydana & Luraghi 2012;Sausa & Zanchi 2015). Both null subjects and null referential objects appear frequently in the Homeric poems and, crucially, fill slots of verbal valency.…”

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The Homeric Dependency Lexicon

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2021

J. Greek Linguist.

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This paper presents the Homeric Dependency Lexicon (HoDeL), a new resource with a user-friendly interface facilitating the study of Homeric verbs and dependents. HoDeL was induced from the analytical layer of AGDT 2.0, extracting all dependents tagged as SBJ, OBJ, PNOM, and OCOMP with a set of SQL queries. The paper illustrates HoDeL functionalities and shows how they can be employed by researchers to answer specific research questions about the Homeric language. Introducing the uses of HoDeL offers the opportunity to reexamine some crucial, though frequently underestimated, methodological challenges concerning annotated corpora and resources derived from them that relate to the linguistic theories underlying annotations and error propagation. It is argued that the careful documentation of how linguistic resources were created, what data they contain, and how they can be queried through their dedicated interfaces is essential to lay the groundwork for users’ investigations.

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“…In addition, referential direct objects are also omitted under certain syntactic and pragmatic conditions [Luraghi 2003]; [Keydana & Luraghi 2012]. In much the same way as null subjects, null referential direct objects fill in slots of the verbal valency, and the fact that they are not annotated in AGLDT 2.0 results in an incomplete account of the valency of specific verbs.…”

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