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A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhram?sa).

This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today's Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bubenik, Vit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 165.
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  • A HISTORICAL SYNTAX OF LATE MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN(APABHRAMSA); Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS; ABBREVIATIONS OF PRIMARY LITERATURE; ABBREVIATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE. METHODOLOGY, SOCIOLINGUISTIC BACKGROUND AND APABHRAMSA LITERARY CORPUS; CHAPTER ONE. METHODOLOGY AND THEORETICAL APPROACH; CHAPTER TWO. HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, AND LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND; CHAPTER THREE. EVIDENCE FROM MEDIEVAL INDIAN GRAMMARIANS; CHAPTER FOUR. LATE MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN VERNACULAR CORPUS.
  • Part two. grammatical change during the late middle indo-aryan periodchapter five. restructuring of the nominal system and the evolution of the phrasal case; chapter six. restructuring of the pronominal system and the evolution of the phrasal case; chapter seven. evolution of grammatical and lexical aspect; chapter eight. the old synthetic and the new analytic passive; chapter nine. the emergence and development of the ergative construction; chapter ten. the scope of the causative; chapter eleven. mood and modality; chapter twelve. absolute constructions.
  • Chapter thirteen. complementation and relativizationchapter fourteen. conclusions; editions of primary literature; references and select bibliography; index of ancient and medieval grammarians; index of modern authors; index of quoted passages; index of languages and dialects; index of subjects.