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kartṛ
kartṛ 'doer, agent'; agent noun to kṛ; also technical term in Aṣṭādhyāyī.
Linguistic Notions
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Argument structure1. Introduction Argument structure concerns the processes and relations involved in the syntactic realization of the semantic dependents of a predicate. Crucial notions in many treatme...
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ControlIn modern linguistics, the term control refers to a construction (or family of constructions) in which there is coreference between an argument of a matrix predicate and an argument of...
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Objecthood1. Introduction Like the closely related notion of 'subject', the notion of 'object' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, and in modern Western linguistics 'object',...
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Periphrasis1. Introduction The term 'periphrasis' broadly refers to constructions in which a syntactic sequence of two (or more, at least in principle) words can be considered to represent the in...
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Relative clauses1. Introduction Research on relative clauses in modern Western linguistics includes both more descriptive/typological angles such as distinguishing the different semantic and syntactic...
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Semantic rolesThere is nothing precisely equivalent to the notion of semantic roles, or 'thematic roles', in the Indian tradition. The closest categories are the kārakas, but these are more abstract...
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Subjecthood1 Introduction The notion 'subject' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. In modern Western linguistics, the notion of 'subject' rema...
Sanskrit Words
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kartāNom. sg. masc. of kartṛ 'doer, maker'.
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kartāraḥ smaḥAnalytic formation consisting of nom.pl.masc. of kartṛ 'doer, maker' (agent noun from kṛ 'do, make', and 1pl. present form of as 'be'. Corresponds to 1pl. periphrastic fu...
Cite this page:
Lowe, John (2022). 'kartṛ'. . First published on 19 Jul 2021. Last updated on 01 Mar 2022.
Lowe, John (2022). 'kartṛ'. . First published on 19 Jul 2021. Last updated on 01 Mar 2022.