[INDOLOGY] Accusative of direction

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Oliver,

     You may find discussions by grammarians on semantic sub-types of
Karman useful in this respect.  Works from Bhartr̥hari's Vākyapadīya to
Kauṇḍabhaṭṭa's Vaiyākaraṇa-Bhūṣaṇa and Nāgeśa's Laghumañjūṣā discuss these
sub-types.  The discussions on verb semantics classifying verbs into
kartr̥stha-kriyaka versus karmastha-kriyaka and kartr̥stha-bhāvaka versus
karmastha-bhāvaka may also provide some clues.  I have discussed the
effects of some semantic sub-types of Karman [affected versus non-affected]
in the syntax of passives of dvikarmaka verbs.  You can see this in a
sentence like ajāṃ grāmaṃ nayati > ajā grāmaṃ nīyate; but not ajāṃ grāmaḥ
nīyate.  On the other hand, grāmaṃ gacchati can be passivized as grāmaḥ
gamyate.  So grāma in relation to nayati and gacchati seems to have a
somewhat different perception.  With respect to nayati, it may be more or
less adverbial as you say.  On the other hand, with respect to gacchati, it
has some closer semantic connection.  This looks like a great topic for
deeper introspection.  Perhaps Hans Hock and George Cardona could add to
this discussion.  With best wishes,

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:29 AM Oliver Hellwig via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> this question probably has an obvious answer, but I don't find it:
> Let's say we have a sentence like rAmo vanaM pravizati, where the acc.
> vanam expresses the goal of a motion verb.
>
> Are there any papers or any clues from the grammatical tradition that
> could tell if the accusative vanam was "felt" like a real object in
> actual language use (as the sun in "I see the sun"), or rather
> considered as some kind of adverbial non-core argument to the verb?
>
> Any hint is highly appreciated.
>
> Best, Oliver
>
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> Oliver Hellwig, IVS Zürich
>
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