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kartṛ

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...