converb (gerund) in Vedic texts

[hhhock]

See also the following, somewhat different, perspectives in papers by  
me:

Discourse linkage in Sanskrit narratives with special emphasis on the  
story of Nala. Papers from the Fifteenth South Asian Language  
Analysis Roundtable 1993, ed. by A. Davison and F. M. Smith.  Iowa  
City, IA:  South Asian Studies Program, 117-139.  1994

Narrative linkage in the Mah7abh7arata. Modern evaluation of the  
Mah7abh7arata: Prof. R. K. Sharma felicitation volume, ed. by S. P.  
Narang, 295-313.  Delhi: Nag Publishers.  1994

Pre-¡Rgvedic convergence between Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) and  
Dravidian?  A survey of the issues and controversies.  Ideology and  
status of Sanskrit:  Contributions to the history of the Sanskrit  
language, ed. by J. E. M. Houben, 17-58.  Leiden: Brill.  1996

Typology vs. convergence:  The issue of Dravidian/Indo-Aryan  
syntactic similarities revisited.  Tokyo symposium on South Asian  
languages: Contact, convergence, and typology, ed. by Peri  
Bhaskararao and K. V. Subbarao, 63-99.  (= The Yearbook of South  
Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2001).  2001

How Strict is Strict OV? A Family of Typological Constraints with  
Focus on South Asia. Yearbook of South Asian Languages and  
Linguistics 2005: 145-163, ed. by Rajendra Singh and Tanmoy  
Bhattacharya. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter: 2005

All the best,

Hans Henrich Hock




On 3 Jul 2007, at 12:07, Asko Parpola wrote:

> For the converb in the earliest Vedic texts, see:
>
> Tikkanen, Bertil, 1987. The Sanskrit gerund: A synchronic,  
> diachronic and
> typological analysis. (Studia Orientalia 62.) Helsinki. 378 pp.
> 	Reviewed: Gillian R. Hart, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1988
> (2): 439-440; Alain Christol, Bulletin de la Société de  
> Linguistique de
> Paris 83, 1988: 137-139; Stephanie W. Jamison, Journal of the American
> Oriental Society 109 (3) 1989: 459-461; Hans Henrich Hock, Kratylos  
> 37,
> 1992: 62-68; Annemarie Etter, Indogermanische Forschungen 95, 1990:  
> 262-265;
> Jared S. Klein, Language 66 (1), 1990: 210-211.
>
> Tikkanen, Bertil, 1991. On the syntax of Sanskrit gerund  
> constructions: A
> functional approach. In: Hans Henrich Hock (ed.), Studies in Sanskrit
> syntax: A volume in 	honor of the centennial of Speijer's Sanskrit  
> syntax
> (1886-1986): 197-207. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
>
> There is also an edited volume on converbs in general, where Bertil  
> Tikkanen
> has written a paper on the Burushaski converbs:
>
> Tikkanen, Bertil, 1995. Burushaski converbs in their South and  
> Central Asian
> areal context. Pp. 487-528 in: Haspelmath, Martin, and Ekkehard  
> Konig, 1995.
> (Ed.) Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective: Structure and  
> meaning of
> adverbial verb* forms -- adverbial participles, gerunds. (Empirical
> approaches to language typology, 13.) Berlin and New York: Mouton de
> Gruyter.
>
> He has a general paper on converbs as well:
>
> Tikkanen, Bertil, 2001. Converbs. Pp. 1112-1123  in: Haspelmath,  
> Martin,
> Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher & Wolfgang Raible, 2001. (Ed.)  
> Language
> typology and language universals: An 	international handbook,  
> volume 2.
> Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
>
> Best regards, Asko Parpola
>
>
> Quoting Gregory Bailey <Greg.Bailey at LATROBE.EDU.AU>:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> A colleague has made the following request. Any replies would be
>> helpful.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Greg Bailey
>>
>>  I'm looking for evidence of linguistic convergence with respect to
>> clause chaining via converbs (=conjunctive participles) in South  
>> Asia. It
>> would be useful to establish if this was a feature of the earliest  
>> Vedic
>> texts. If it wasn't, then this suggests that clause chaining may have
>> developed through contact with unrelated languages of the  
>> subcontinent,
>> and especially if it is attested in later Sanskrit texts. My  
>> suspicion
>> that this may be the case is raised by the fact that extensive clause
>> chaining via converbs is not a feature of IE languages of Europe, but
>> seems to be extremely common in the modern IA languages. Do you know
>> where I can find some interlinearised and glossed Vedic texts to  
>> prove or
>> dispel my suspicions?
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Alec Coupe, PhD
>> ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
>> Linguistics Program
>> La Trobe University
>> Victoria 3086
>> Australia
>> Tel  +61 3 9479-3297
>> Fax +61 3 9479-1520
>> web page: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/linguistics/staff/Coupe.html
>>
>>
>
>
> Asko Parpola
> Institute for Asian and African Studies
> POB 59 (Unioninkatu 38 B)
> FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland