Naslov
The Romani Present Conjugation in a Comparative- historical Context

Autori
Katavić, Katarina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
2022 Annual Meeting of Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies Book of Abstracts / Várady, Tibor ; Marushiakova, Elena ; Zahova, Sofiya - Beograd : Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti (SANU), 2022, 41-42

ISBN
978-86-7025-940-9

Skup
2023 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Romani Studies

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 28.09.2022. - 30.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Romani ; Hindi ; Indo-Aryan ; present ; subjunctive

Sažetak
Romani is a New Indo-Aryan (NIA) language whose speakers have left the Indian Subcontinent more than one thousand years ago and spread all over the world. Its origin can be recognized by its basic Indo-Aryan lexicon and grammar structure, which are well preserved. Unlike other NIA languages, which never left the Subcontinent, but restructured and developed a highly analytical grammatical structure, the Romani language has preserved its synthetic structure that remained close to that of its ancestor languages – the Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) and Old Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit). This is highly visible in its present tense conjugation, whose endings are inherited from Sanskrit, while, for example, the Hindi present tense forms are new, periphrastic constructions, consisting of the present participle and the copula. Based on their present tense conjugation, Romani verbs can be categorized into four classes – e-, a-, i- and o-class, whose difference lies in the vowels of the present tense endings (-e-, -a-, - i-, -o-). The e- and a-class endings have developed directly from the Sanskrit present tense endings and cover mostly original Romani verbs, while the i- and o-class endings have developed due to the adaptation of foreign verbs into the Romani conjugation system, due to analogy with the e- and a-class endings. This paper aims to show the development of the different Romani present tense endings from Sanskrit that have formed the e- and a-verb class, the analogy due to which the i- and o-class emerged, and the comparison of the Romani present tense with that of another New Indo-Aryan language, i. e. Hindi, including its development too, by using examples of Romani and Hindi verbs and their Sanskrit reconstructions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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