The Sanskrit Language

· Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
4.2
9 reviews
Ebook
438
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The Sanskrit Language presents a systematic and comprehensive historical account of the developments in phonology and morphology. This is the only book in English which treats the structure of the Sanskrit language in its relation to the other Indo-European languages and throws light on the significance of the discovery of Sanskrit. It is this discovery that contributed to the study of the comparative philology of the Indo-European languages and eventually the whole science of modern linguistics. Besides drawing on the works of Brugmann and Wackernagel, Professor Burrow incorporates in this book material from Hittite and taking into account various verbal constructions as found in Hittite, he relates the perfect form of Sanskrit to it. The profound influence that the Dravidian languages had on the structure of the Sanskrit language has also been presented lucidly and with a balanced perspective. In a nutshell, the present work can be called, without exaggeration, a pioneering endeavour in the field of linguistics and Indology.

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4.2
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Vijay Hegde
April 5, 2015
Aryans invaded India? Really? The start that puts you off..
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Rangnath Shukla
August 18, 2013
Nice.
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Vasanta Barapatre
October 12, 2017
खूपच सळली dictionatory
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