LINGUIST List 26.248

Thu Jan 15 2015

Books: De l'emploi du génitif absolu en Sanscrit: Saussure

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Date: 06-Jan-2015
From: Katie Laker <klakercambridge.org>
Subject: De l'emploi du génitif absolu en Sanscrit: Saussure
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Title: De l'emploi du génitif absolu en Sanscrit
Subtitle: Thèse pour le doctorat présentée à la Faculté de Philosophie de l'Université de Leipzig
Published: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://bit.ly/1sElOmf

Author: Ferdinand de Saussure
Paperback: ISBN: 9781108075589 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781108075589 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 14.99
Abstract:

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), the founder of structuralist linguistics and pioneer of semiotics, began his career as a scholar of Indo-European languages (his early study of the Proto-Indo-European vowel system is also reissued in this series: ISBN 9781108006590). In 1880, Saussure was awarded a doctorate from the University of Leipzig for this study, which appeared in print in 1881. He published almost nothing more during his lifetime. Earlier Indo-Europeanists had noted the almost complete absence of the genitive absolute from Classical Sanskrit texts. Saussure argued that it must have been a feature of colloquial speech, as it appears in formulaic expressions in less 'purist' Sanskrit texts, as well as in Pali. He analyses different forms of the construction, and lists nearly 500 examples, many from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The thesis is also of interest as it reveals Saussure's early approach to problems of syntax.

Section 1. Extension et emploi du génetif absolu; Section 2. Recueil d'exemples; Curriculum vitae.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                            History of Linguistics
                            Syntax

Subject Language(s): Sanskrit (san)

Written In: English (eng)

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