The Classical Armenian construction [X <i>anun</i>] ‘X in name’ from the point of view of Indo-European reconstruction
The paper is devoted to the naming construction [X anun ] ‘X in name’ in Classical Armenian. The use of this construction in the Armenian Bible translation shows that it operated as a formulaic pattern without a transparent syntactic structure. Similar naming constructions prevail in the ancient Indo-Iranian languages; a double-accusative naming construction is documented in Ancient Greek. The double-accusative construction with naming verbs, which left traces in the Indo-Iranian, Greek, and Armenian branches and which probably replaced the earlier naming construction with the verb *dheh1- ‘to put’, may be considered as a syntactic innovation shared by the late Indo-European dialects.