THE SYNTAX OF ‘-cā’ (*-k w e) IN AHUNAVAITI GĀTHĀ
THE SYNTAX OF ‘-cā’ (*-k w e) IN AHUNAVAITI GĀTHĀ

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to provide a full description of the syntactic behaviour of the enclitic co-ordinate conjunction -cā in the earliest stage of the Avestan language. By studying the occurrences of the particle in Ahunavaiti Gāthā, a distributive analysis is provided together with an interpretative hypothesis of its distributive dynamics. Two syntactic levels, phrase and sentence, are taken into consideration. Finally, a syntactic domain-based variation is argued and two clitic functional variants are identified as synchronically operating conjunction strategies.

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