Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 05, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780198736660
Description: This work examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 BC) to contemporary Hindi, with specific focus on the rise of configurational structure as a by-product of the grammaticalization of postpositions.
Notes: Source title: Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)