P. A. Kocharov. The Classical Armenian construction [X anun] ‘X in name’ from the point of view of Indo-European reconstruction (pp. 473–481)

Author

P. A. Kocharov (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Keywords\n Classical Armenian, naming constructions, syntactic isoglosses

Pages\n 473–481

Summary\n

The paper is devoted to the naming construction [X anun] ‘X in name’ in Classical Armenian. The use of this construction in the Armenian Bible translation shows that it operated as a formulaic pattern without a transparent syntactic structure. Similar naming constructions prevail in the ancient Indo-Iranian languages; a double-accusative naming construction is documented in Ancient Greek. The double-accusative construction with naming verbs, which left traces in the Indo-Iranian, Greek, and Armenian branches and which probably replaced the earlier naming construction with the verb *dheh1- ‘to put’, may be considered as a syntactic innovation shared by the late Indo-European dialects.

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