Osservazioni sull’uso di yád in antico indiano

This paper considers the placement of complementizer yád within sentence and functional value in Old Indian. It will be noted that thecomplementizer yád, like other subordinating conjunctions some ancient modern Indo-European languages, can preceded by a topicalized or focalized phrase its clause. In particular, R̥gVeda there are many cases where is an element which seems to have moved from inside also inflected verb. Morover, discussed showing use introduce clauses governed verbs saying knowing, both Vedic Sanskrit, possible syntactic analysis these structures.