Morphology and syntax of Old Hindi : : edition and analysis of one hundred Kabir Vani poems from Rajasthan / / Jaroslav Strnad.

• Author: Strnad, Jaroslav, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological Library 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (597 pages)

With Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī scholars and students of medieval Hindī literature acquire an essential tool for learning one of its important but difficult dialects, the so called sadhukkarī bhāshā. Based on an early Rājasthānī manuscript, the volume includes a commented edition of one hundred poems attributed to medieval mystic and thinker Kabīr, followed by a detailed treatment of morphological structure and main syntactic features of the language. The exposition is accompanied by numerous textual examples and index of all lexical and grammatical morphs. The book can be used as a descriptive grammar of the dialect in question, an aid to the study of historical development of New Indo-Aryan languages, and a reader for use in university courses.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Part One: Edition Of The Pads. Introduction -- Editorial Procedures, Transliteration Conventions -- Orthographic Peculiarities of the Manuscript -- The Pads -- Concordance of the pads -- First line index of the pads -- Part Two: Morphology And Syntax. Introduction -- Chapter One: Nouns And Adjectives -- Chapter Two: Numerals -- Chapter Three: Pronouns -- Chapter Four: Postpositions -- Chapter Five: Verbs -- Chapter Six: Adverbs -- Chapter Seven: Particles -- Chapter Eight: Conjunctions -- Chapter Nine: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Of Verse Quotations -- Part Three: The Morphemicon. Introduction.