| Part one of the bipartite dissertation traces the historical development of Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic and deals diachronically and synchronically with the morphological and syntactical aspects of the nominal, as substantive, in Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic. In juxtaposition with Proto-Indo-European the substantive is analyzed in all its ramifications from noun formation, which includes the Proto-Indo-European root, primary and secondary suffixes, apophony, and accentuation, through the categories of gender, number, and case to the syntactic and semantic uses of case which distinguish concrete and abstract cases.; The shared, innovated, and divergent aspects of the nominal are evidenced in the comprehensive comparative analysis of the substantive, as an independent entity and as a case element within the syntactic framework. Further evidence obtains from the related appendixes which include the primary and secondary suffixes in Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic as well as the declensional paradigms of each language, singularly, and also trichotomously with Proto-Indo-European.; Part two examines the deep structure case relationships which hold between nouns and the central verb within the framework of Anderson's (1971) 'localistic' case grammar model. The fundamental concepts, inherent in case grammar, are traced to the deep historical origin of the 'karaka theory' of Panini, the great Hindu grammarian, ca. 400 B.C., wherein Karakas represent the deep structure cases (subject to transformation), and v(')ibhaktis represent the surface case markers. A contrast between Panini and Fillmore's (1968, 1971) case grammar models serves to point to the parallelisms and to the differences which obtain.; The concept of verb centrality with concomitant valence, which governs the number of 'actants' required by the state, action, or process verb to fulfill the 'drama', as propounded by Lucien Tesniere in his 'dependencey grammar' (1959 {lcub}posthumous{rcub}), is also treated preliminarily, since it is basic to case grammar, in general, and to Anderson's dependency case grammar, in particular. In addition, the valency roles, or semantic case relationships, which are dependent on the meaning of the governing verb, are analogous to Fillmore's case frames which are used here to designate the case relationships of the state, action, process, location, and direction verbs of Anderson's model.; Anderson's 'localistic' semanticosyntactic analysis is applied to the local cases, locative and ablative, and to the nonlocal cases, nominative and ergative, as they occur in the textual examples of the various clause-types in Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic. The locative/dative, or concrete/abstract dichotomy, is clearly distinguished in stemmatically-illustrated locational and directional clauses. This accords, historically, with the state of the locative (concrete and abstract), prior to the development of the dative, as an abstract locative offshoot (Kurylowica 1964).; In the conclusion an evaluation is rendered as to the efficacy of the model and/or the limitations that derive from the application of Anderson's 'localistic' dependency case grammar to Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic. |
