%0 Journal Article %A Kulikov, Leonid %T Vedic preverbs as markers of valency-changing derivations: Transitivity and objecthood in Indo-European (Evidence from Old Indo-Aryan) %D 2012 %J Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” %V 36 %N 4 %P 721-746 %@ 0378-4177 %R https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.36.4.01kul %K Vedic %K tmesis %K Sanskrit %K reciprocal %K transitivity %K intransitivizer %K transitivizer %K direct object %K passivization test %K preverb %K applicative %K Indo-European %K objecthood %K passive %I John Benjamins %X The present paper offers an analysis of the transitivizing and intransitivizing preverbs (semi-bound verbal prefixes) in Vedic Sanskrit. I will argue that the (in)transitivizing force of these morphemes is weak: the passivization test shows that transitivizing preverbs only exceptionally make fundamentally intransitive verbs true transitives, whilst the only intransitivizing preverb ví has but a rather limited valency-changing capacity. %U https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.36.4.01kul