{"title":"关于贵霜巴克特里亚语 Ablative-Instrumental 案例","authors":"Julian Kreidl","doi":"10.1163/1573384x-02802006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present paper argues for the existence of an ablative-instrumental case in Kushan Bactrian with the endings -<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">α</styled-content> (from original a-stems) and -<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">να</styled-content> ~ -<styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">νο</styled-content> (from the Old Iranian pronominal declension). While the corpus is small and many details remain unknown or speculative, there are enough such case forms to show that the Kushan Bactrian case system is more archaic than often thought. It further becomes clear from the examples that the ablative-instrumental case had largely two functions: Several times it is used a prepositional case and, once, to mark the ergative agent of a transitive past tense verb. The existence of an ablative-instrumental in Bactrian as such, its endings and its functions have good parallels in other Middle and New Iranian languages spoken in the region, and should therefore not be too surprising for the Bactrian language of the 2nd century <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">A.D.</span></p>","PeriodicalId":42790,"journal":{"name":"Iran and the Caucasus","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"On the Kushan Bactrian Ablative-Instrumental Case\",\"authors\":\"Julian Kreidl\",\"doi\":\"10.1163/1573384x-02802006\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<p>The present paper argues for the existence of an ablative-instrumental case in Kushan Bactrian with the endings -<styled-content lang=\\\"el-Grek\\\" xmlns:dc=\\\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\\\" xmlns:ifp=\\\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\\\">α</styled-content> (from original a-stems) and -<styled-content lang=\\\"el-Grek\\\" xmlns:dc=\\\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\\\" xmlns:ifp=\\\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\\\">να</styled-content> ~ -<styled-content lang=\\\"el-Grek\\\" xmlns:dc=\\\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\\\" xmlns:ifp=\\\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\\\">νο</styled-content> (from the Old Iranian pronominal declension). While the corpus is small and many details remain unknown or speculative, there are enough such case forms to show that the Kushan Bactrian case system is more archaic than often thought. It further becomes clear from the examples that the ablative-instrumental case had largely two functions: Several times it is used a prepositional case and, once, to mark the ergative agent of a transitive past tense verb. The existence of an ablative-instrumental in Bactrian as such, its endings and its functions have good parallels in other Middle and New Iranian languages spoken in the region, and should therefore not be too surprising for the Bactrian language of the 2nd century <span style=\\\"font-variant: small-caps;\\\">A.D.</span></p>\",\"PeriodicalId\":42790,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Iran and the Caucasus\",\"volume\":\"14 1\",\"pages\":\"\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.1000,\"publicationDate\":\"2024-06-11\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Iran and the Caucasus\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802006\",\"RegionNum\":3,\"RegionCategory\":\"历史学\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q3\",\"JCRName\":\"HISTORY\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iran and the Caucasus","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02802006","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
The present paper argues for the existence of an ablative-instrumental case in Kushan Bactrian with the endings -α (from original a-stems) and -να ~ -νο (from the Old Iranian pronominal declension). While the corpus is small and many details remain unknown or speculative, there are enough such case forms to show that the Kushan Bactrian case system is more archaic than often thought. It further becomes clear from the examples that the ablative-instrumental case had largely two functions: Several times it is used a prepositional case and, once, to mark the ergative agent of a transitive past tense verb. The existence of an ablative-instrumental in Bactrian as such, its endings and its functions have good parallels in other Middle and New Iranian languages spoken in the region, and should therefore not be too surprising for the Bactrian language of the 2nd century A.D.
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Iran and the Caucasus, as of volume 6 published by Brill, is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal and appears in two issues per year. Iran and the Caucasas is a journal promoting original, innovative, and meticulous research on the anthropology, archaeology, culture, economics, folklore, history (ancient, mediaeval and modern), linguistics, literature (textology), philology, politics, and social sciences of the region. Accepting articles in English, French, and German, Iran and the Caucasus publishes lengthy monographic essays on path-breaking research, synoptic essays that inform about the field and region, as well as book reviews that highlight and analyse important new publications.