John J. Lowe (University of Oxford Postdoctoral Researcher)

Transitive Nouns and Adjectives

Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and analysed from diachronic, typological, and theoretical perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780198793571
• ISBN-10: 019879357X
• Artikelnr.: 47869945

Autorenporträt

John Lowe is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. He has worked widely in the areas of Sanskrit and Indo-Iranian syntax, and formal syntax more widely. His first monograph, Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He has published papers in a range of linguistic and philological journals, including Language, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Transactions of the Philological Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, and Indo-Iranian Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Series preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: Rigvedic Sanskrit
3: Vedic Prose
4: Epic Sanskrit
5: P¿li
6: Diachrony
7: Typological and theoretical implications
Appendix: Data lists
References
Index