The Semantic Roles of Dative Case in Avestan Language

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Authors
Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian 1
Ehsan Changizi 2
Jaleh Amouzgar Yeghaneh 3
Ameneh Zaheri Abdvand 4
1 Ph.D. student Department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Allameh Tabataba'i, Tehran, Iran
3 Professor. Ancient Iranian Languages. Tehran University, Tehran. Iran
4 Assistant Professor. Department of Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages. Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
10.30465/lsi.2024.47696.1728
Abstract
In inflected languages, case labels of distinct genders, being different and representing case and number, can never cover the full range of semantic and other properties of case. The labels primarily act as markers showing important synthetic and semantic properties. They do not have a proven capacity to describe the whole dimensions of the case and its functions. In the area of the case, therefore, labels at least are commonly seen at three levels, namely semantic functions, morphological case, and grammatical relations. Avestan language of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian as an inflected language includes eight grammatic cases by various semantic roles. In the paper, semantic roles of the dative case, one of grammatical cases (or main cases), are studied, consisting of ten roles: recipient, beneficiary, purpose, destination, location, manner, extent, accompany, agent, and attitude. It showed that added grammatical cases can exhibit similar semantic roles of dative case.
Keywords
Case
Semantic roles
Dative case
Avestan language
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