The function of the Old Persian pronoun aita
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https://doi.org/10.3986/JZ.23.2.6917Keywords:
Old Persian, Old Iranian, Vedic, historical syntax, demonstrative pronouns, deixisAbstract
This article examines the particular pragmatic and semantic properties of the Old Persian demonstrative pronoun aita ‘he, this’ in relation to its opposing counterparts, the proximal and distal demonstrative, in a descriptively three-term deictic system. An autonomous semantic function of aita that does not seem to have been sufficiently highlighted yet is recovered on the solid basis of internal reconstruction and supported, along with its genesis, with important external Indo-Iranian (especially Vedic) comparative evidence.Downloads
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