Transitive Nouns and Adjectives

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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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

• 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