PP220- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
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3 neuter nouns: singular (a person, plural (persons, dual (2 people) Highly inflected language: the endings of the various linguistic units require change, case. A grammatical category which indicates the grammatical function performed by a particular noun. The nominative case always refers to the grammatical subject (syntactic) (john) Active voice: jane is loved by john. Same proposition as above, but in this sentence jane is the subject. The thing doing the loving is still john. Deva: singular devah, dual devau, plural dev h. The development of indian philosophical schools is divided into 5 main periods: the vedic period (1500bce to 700bce) (elitist period, only some can study ) The main texts of the vedic period are divided into four main texts: rgveda (mainly what we focus on, samaveda (the rgveda set to music, yajurveda, atharvaveda (manuscript that contains instructions for medicine) Part of the longest part of philosophy (seen above)
