Satztopographie und Skopuseffekte bei konverbalen Strukturen im Jungavestischen

Abstract

In this paper an attempt is made to shed light on the syntax of Young Avestan participles in the perspective of recent cross-linguistic research on converbs. After a short overview on terminological issues, the reader is provided with a general survey of the functional scale of the participles in Young Avestan. The focus is then placed on the “adverbial” function, which turns out to be the dominant one in the language. Within this context, the position of adverbial participial clauses within main clauses and scope phenomena are given Show more