Survey of the First Indian Language – Survey of Sanskrit S2 3600-7-IN2-WIJI2

The continuation of the two-year course which aims at presentation of the basic structure of Sanskrit language grammar in the modern linguistics terms with reference to the rudiments of Indian grammatical tradition and based on the material of Sanskrit literature examples. The topics are introduced gradually according to their difficulty and frequency of usage, with attention to the morphological relationship of the discussed language elements. In the presentation of grammatical categories Polish and Latin terminology is applied, so its knowledge is a prerequisite. The declension and conjugation systems and indeclinables are discussed in morphological terms with syntactical references. The third and fourth semester of the course cover more complex declensional and conjugational formations, as well as word formation.

Topics:
14. conjugation of class V
15. numerals (cardinals and ordinals); formation of numbers
16. conjugation of class VII; internal sandhi of consonants
17. conjugation of class VIII; present middle (A) participles of the verbs of the 2nd conjugation
18. conjugation of class IX
19. declension of irregular consonant-ending nominals
20. the past perfect tense – reduplicative past perfect (reduplication principles); formation and conjugation
21. periphrastic past perfect (formation and conjugation)
22. the past aorist tense ¬– sigmatic varieties (formation and conjugation)
23. the past aorist tense – non-sigmatic varieties (formation and conjugation); aorist passive
24. past tenses (perfect and aorist) – usage; iniunctivus
25. benedictive mood; conditional mood (formation and usage)
26. desiderative (formation and usage)
27. intensive and frequentative verbs (formation and conjugation)
28. denominative verbs (description of types and usage)