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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 b
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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and di
Multiple Preverbs in Ancient Indo-European Languages
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The book investigates multiple preverbs (PVs) in some ancient IE languages (Vedic, Homeric Greek, Old Church Slavic, and Old Irish). After an introduction, it o
Transitive Nouns and Adjectives
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This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, accord
The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian
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This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM, a means b