Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan

ISBN: 9780198736660 出版年：2016 页码：251 Reinohl, Uta Oxford University Press

This book 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.