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kartṛ

kartṛ 'doer, agent'; agent noun to kṛ; also technical term in Aṣṭādhyāyī.

Linguistic Notions

  • Argument structure
    1. 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...
  • Periphrasis
    1. 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...
  • Relative clauses
    1. Introduction Research on relative clauses in modern Western linguistics includes both more descriptive/typological angles such as distinguishing the different semantic and syntactic...
  • Subjecthood
    1 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

  • kartā
    Nom. sg. masc. of kartṛ 'doer, maker'.
  • kartāraḥ smaḥ
    Analytic 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.
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