Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

NON-FINITE VERBAL FORMS IN PĀLI - PARTICIPLES, ABSOLUTIVE AND INFINITIVE

https://www.academia.edu/82742390/NON_FINITE_VERBAL_FORMS_IN_P%C4%80LI_PARTICIPLES_ABSOLUTIVE_AND_INFINITIVE

 The four participles are adjectival or nominal non-finite verbal forms predicatively expanding either noun phrases or verbal phrases with four possible forms and values:

1- The past participle of an action seen as fully completed is an adjectival expansion of a noun phrase.

2- The active past participle is an adjectival expansion of a noun phrase seen as the agent of an action that has been fully completed.

3- The present participle is an adjectival expansion of a noun phrase with an action that is seen in progress, hence partly completed and partly virtual.

4- The future passive participle is an adjectival form expanding a noun phrase with an action that should, must, or could be done with the contradiction between the injunctive or optative modalization and the passive completion attached to a noun phrase which is the virtual actant who should, must or could carry this completed passive value.

What kind of mapping of the inner time of these non-finite forms can we see and how can the passive/active and injunctive/optative dimensions be integrated? Are we in langue, or are we in discourse? Is such predicatory discourse dealing with time, both universe and inner times, the same way as any reporting discourse?

Éditions La Dondaine 2022