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Prepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old Persian

IFI Guest lecture

IFI Guest Lecture by Michiel De Vaan | Departement Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Basel & Département des sciences de l'antiquité, Université de Genève

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the prepositional possessive compounds and prepositional governing compounds with exocentric semantics found in Avestan and Old Persian. The analysis focuses on their derivational morphology and their meaning.
I conclude that the oldest governing compounds have introduced thematization of the second member, whereas possessive compounds probably did not add any suffix to an athematic second member. These conclusions confirm Sadovski’s findings for Vedic Sanskrit and allow us to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-Iranian situation, albeit for a restricted number of lexemes.

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Time
29 January 2026
10:30-12:30

Venue
Austrian Academy of Sciences
PSK, 4th floor, Seminar Room 5
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna