'The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (ZRC SAZU)'
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Abstract
This article examines the particular pragmatic and semantic properties of the Old Persian demonstrative pronoun aita ‘he, this’ in relation to its opposing counterparts, the proximal and distal demonstrative, in a descriptively three-term deictic system. An autonomous semantic function of aita that does not seem to have been sufficiently highlighted yet is recovered on the solid basis of internal reconstruction and supported, along with its genesis, with important external Indo-Iranian (especially Vedic) comparative evidence.Obravnavana je vloga kazalnega zaimka aita v opisno tridimenzionalnem sistemu deikse, kakršno je mogoče razbrati iz ohranjenih staroperzijskih klinopisnih besedil. Njegova doslej neeksaktno prepoznana funkcija v odnosu do obeh protipolnih demonstrativnih zaimkov za bližnjo in daljno deikso je definirana preko interne rekonstrukcije sinhronega sistema, hkrati z njegovo genezo pa utemeljena in podprta s staroindoiranskim, zlasti v tem pogledu bistvenim vedskostaroindijskim primerjalnim gradivom
