VARIACIÓN SEMÁNTICA DE ĀTMÁN- EN EL R̥GVEDA Y EL ATHARVAVEDA
AUTOR(ES)
ORQUEDA, Verónica
FONTE
Alfa, rev. linguíst. (São José Rio Preto)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2015-08
RESUMO
This paper studies the use of ātmán- in the R̥gveda and the Atharvaveda, and aims to show an ongoing semantic change through the period of composition and compilation of these texts. A cognitive and typological-functional approach is used here and all cases where ātmán- appears in the corpus have been analysed both grammatically and philologically. The results of this research show that ātmán- acquires new meanings and uses during the course of this process (‘being, ‘self’), without losing the previous ones (‘vital breath’, ‘breathe’). The systematisation of the different uses into a semantic map leads to the conclusion that: 1) the directionality of this semantic change is similar to that of equivalent words in other languages, and 2) this change is closely connected to that previously experienced by tanū́- ‘body, ‘self’. Thus, this research aims to provide specific evidence for cross-linguistic studies on grammaticalisation and the directionality of change.
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