D'Amato F. The syntax of '-ca' (*-kwe) in Ahunavaiti Gatha

Article. — Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. — 2015. — Volume 68. — Issue 1. — p. 1-28.This paper seeks to provide a full description of the syntactic behaviour of the enclitic co-ordinate conjunction -ca in the earliest stage of the Avestan language. By studying the occurrences of the particle in Ahunavaiti Gatha, a distributive analysis is provided together with an interpretative hypothesis of its distributive dynamics. Two syntactic levels, phrase and sentence, are taken into consideration. Finally, a syntactic domain-based variation is argued and two clitic functional variants are identified as synchronically operating conjunction strategies.