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@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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