Bibliotheca Trimalchionis Tertia Studi filologici e letterari sull’Asia e sull’Africa

Series | Bibliotheca Trimalchionis Tertia
Monograph | The Subtle Meaning
Chapter | 4 • The States of the Predicand (aḥwāl-i musnad ilayh)

4 • The States of the Predicand (aḥwāl-i musnad ilayh)

Abstract

This chapter, part of a series of eight, each of which addresses a different topic within the Persian science of meanings (ʿilm-i maʿānī), examines the ‘states of the predicand’ (aḥwāl-i musnad ilayh). It discusses general operations on nominals (occurrences, ellipses, definite/indefinite references, shifts in word order, appositions, and linkers etc.). The mechanisms by which a predicand takes on its most basic sense or more subtle secondary meanings are also explored. Examples, mainly from Persian poetry, are given as illustrations.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 30, 2023 | Accepted: Jan. 10, 2024 | Published Feb. 27, 2024 | Language: en


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