The Aryan Problem, a Linguistic Approach

The Aryan Problem, a Linguistic Approach

Author: Satya Swarup Misra

Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 136

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Description: The Aryan Problem-a Linguistic Approach presents fresh linguistic evidence to solve several complications of the issue. Archaeological evidence is also presented side by side when it has been considered to be complimentary to the linguistic evidence. The Aryan problem is attacked chiefly with a revolutionary reassessment of the date of Rigveda on the basis of fresh linguistic evidence assisted by the Archaeological evidence. The date of Rigveda has been proved to be beyond 5000 BC. The revised date of Rigveda solves several other problems; for example the Indus civilization naturally comes late than the Vedic civilization. Since fresh Archaeological evidence proves Indus civilization to be Aryan; but according to the revised date of Rigveda, the Indus civilization indicates the Puranic stage or a later stage. The original home of Indo-European has also been reconsidered and it has been shown that it was possible for the Aryans to go to other parts of Indo-European area from India. The evidence of the migration of the Gypsies gives a clue to the change of Proto Indo-European a to a, e, o in several Indo-European languages and to migrations from India in ancient days. A probable common origin of Indo-European and Dravidian has also been attempted. The work presents evidence of horse for Aryan migration from India to outside. Besides evidence of cotton, iron etc. have also been utilized for fixation of the date of Rigveda. Thus the work presents sufficient evidence for a reconsideration of several vital problems of Aryan migration.


Browne, Byron

Browne, Byron

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Published: 1900

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May contain: Resumes, newspaper articles, magazine articles, invitations to exhibition openings, gallery hand-outs, check-lists of exhibitions, advertisements, obituaries, 35 mm. slides of the artist's work.


Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages

Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages

Author: Saartje Verbeke

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 311029267X

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The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan goes beyond the opposition between accusativity and ergativity. The book includes a thorough discussion of the concepts and terminology relating to alignment patterns. The study draws extensively on new language data from Indo-Aryan. It includes discussions of examples taken from Hindi, Sanskrit, Apabhramsa, Asamiya, Bangla, Oriya, the Bihari languages, Nepali, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Siraiki, Poguli, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marwari, Harauti, the Hindi varieties, and Shina. The volume offers a comprehensive overview of various alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan based on a wide range of data. By focusing on lesser known Indo-Aryan languages, the study questions the central position of Hindi-Urdu in the research on ergativity. Each language is treated in its own right, with a focus on language-specific data and analyses, rather than relying on a notional format that starts with pre-established linguistic concepts. In accordance with this methodology, much attention is paid to "indirect" connections between ergative constructions and other syntactic and semantic patterns in the various languages.


The Indo-Aryan Controversy

The Indo-Aryan Controversy

Author: Edwin Francis Bryant

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780700714636

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The articles in this survey of the Indo-Aryan controversy address questions such as: are the Indo-Aryans insiders or outsiders?


A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhram??a)

A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhram??a)

Author: Vit Bubenik

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1998-10-15

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 902727567X

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This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its syntax in the direction of the New Indo-Aryan analytic type. This study concentrates on the emergence and development of the ergative construction in terms of the passive-to-ergative reanalysis and the co-existence of the ergative construction with the old and new analytic passive constructions. Special attention is paid to the actuation problem seen as the tug of war between conservative and eliminative forces during their development. Other chapters deal with the evolution of grammatical and lexical aspect, causativization, modality, absolute constructions and subordination. This study is based on a wealth of new data gleaned from original poetic works in Apabhraṃśa (by Svayaṃbhādeva, Puṣpadanta, Haribhadra, Somaprabha et al.). It contains sections dealing with descriptive techniques of Medieval Indian grammarians (esp. Hemacandra). All the Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhraṃśa examples are consistently parsed and translated. The opus is cast in the theoretical framework of Functional Grammar of the Prague and Amsterdam Schools. It should be of particular interest to scholars and students of Indo-Aryan and general historical linguistics, especially those interested in the issues of morphosyntactic change and typology in their sociohistorical setting.


Pre-Pāṇinian Linguistic Studies

Pre-Pāṇinian Linguistic Studies

Author: D. D. Mahulkar

Publisher: Northern Book Centre

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9788185119885

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Presents Sanskrit language studies in a new setting-that of `socio-linguistics'. Illustrate how some of the missing links in traditional Sanskrit studies can be understood if the evolutionary aspect of language studies is connected with the study of socio-cultural history of the speech The new model of socio-historical linguistics is for the first time conceived and developed as a variational, dynamic and developmental model. Neatly planned and richly illustrated, this book breaks a new ground in modern linguistic studies showing how socio-linguistic studies can be enjoyed not only as sources of new hypotheses in historical studies but also as source of rich cultural contexts lost from material archaeological discoveries. Language, pleads the author, preserves a rich cultural archaeology of a community. The formulation of the scientific methodology of language studies from this point of view has to be the logical sine qua non of all historical linguistic studies which have been in a state of revival since 1965.


Which of Us are Aryans?

Which of Us are Aryans?

Author: Romila Thapar

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9789388292382

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The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eye-opening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology and linguistics to test and debunk various hypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue.


The Problem of Aryan Origins from an Indian Point of View

The Problem of Aryan Origins from an Indian Point of View

Author: Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 474

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This volume takes up ?from an Indian Point of View? a cluster of important historical questions about India?s most ancient past and formulates fresh answers to them in great detail with the temper of a scrupulous scholar.This edition, extensively enlarged with five supplements,demonstrates for the period after 1980 at still greater length ? with the same tools of widespread scholarship the validity of the first edition?s thesis.