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< All sanskrit words
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...