Document Type : Research
Authors
1 Ph.D. Student, Department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
3 Professor, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages of Iran, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
4 Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages of Iran, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Inflected languages use different cases to convey different meanings depending on the context of the sentence. Old Persian has seven cases, including the accusative case. This case is used in intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive constructions, and can have different functions and semantic roles based on the sentence's context. This article focuses on investigating the verbs that are used with two accusative cases in Old Persian and the characteristics and semantic roles these cases imply. In transitive constructions, one of the objects in the accusative case indicates the semantic role of the theme/patient, while the other object in the accusative case indicates the semantic role of the destination, manner, object complement, and source-maleficiary. Passive sentences containing verbs with double accusative cases in Old Persian are rare, making it somewhat difficult to examine their characteristics. However, we can cautiously say that verbs related to asking and requesting and the maleficiary ditransitive structures can be included among the structures of double accusative, and both accusative cases have the same characteristics. The study also investigates the analogs of the studied verbs in the Avesta language. The result shows that these Avestan verbs are not necessarily associated with double accusative cases with the same semantic roles.
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