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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Indo-Aryan"”.
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Origin and Development of the Indo-Aryan Quotatives and Complementizers: An Areal Approach
… linguistics to investigate the degree to which Indo-Aryan complementizers and quotatives can be attributed to outside influences (Persian and Dravidian, respectively) or internal developments. I determine that Persian influence is responsible for the spread of complementizers throughout much of …
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Aspects of Linguistic Interaction and Gender in South Asia
… and communication in two languages: Hindi, and Indo-Aryan language of India, and Indian English. Primarily examining the creative fiction writings of Indian authors of Hindi and Indian English, this study examines the following major points of focus.
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Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism
… Prakrit and in Sanskrit itself, and various non Indo-Aryan languages like Tibetan and Middle Chinese. Comparing corresponding passages in the surviving witnesses uncovers linguistic ambiguities which are phonologically cognate, but semantically unclear, pointing to an earlier, underlying …
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Word order and case in Kashmiri
… of Kashmiri language differs from all other Indo-Aryan languages is the appearance of the finite verb in the clause second position in declarative matrix clauses and ki (subordinate) clauses. This ""verb-second"" phenomenon that we notice in Kashmiri is found elsewhere only in the languages …
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Mitochondrial DNA Control Region Sequence Polymorphisms from a South Indian Population Sample: A Forensic and Phylogenetic View
… related to the spread of agriculture or t?e Indo-Aryan invasion. India has been underrepresented in mitochondrial surveys of human variation. The aim of this study was to establish a mtDNA dataset for the state of Tamil Nadu, India for forensic purposes and to investigate the diversity of the …
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The computational analysis of morphosyntactic categories in Urdu
Urdu is a language of the Indo-Aryan family, widely spoken in India and Pakistan, and an important minority language in Europe, North America, and elsewhere. This thesis describes the development of a computer-based system for part-of-speech tagging of Urdu texts, consisting of a tagset, a set of …
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The Syllable Structure and Stress Patterns of the Maithili Language
… phonemes is similar to other closely related Indo-Aryan languages, the dissertation shows that in its vocalic system, length contrast have been replaced by the tense and lax contrast. Furthermore, the author shows the lax vowels [schwa], [I], and U in word final positions and in open syllables …
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The new year's festivals and the shrine of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Sy Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan
… also represent different aspects of ancient Indo-Aryan and Babylonian fertility rites connected with the spring and vernal equinox.
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Syntax and Semantics of the Passive Construction in Selected South Asian Languages
… in six South Asian languages (i.e., five Indo-Aryan languages - Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Kashmiri, Punjabi, and one Dravidian language - Kannada). The major points of focus are as follows: (1) Chapter II describes, compares, and contrasts the linguistic features of the passive construction …
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Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar
… two positive polarity particles in Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka. Sinhala has two particles -hari and -da that systematically appear across disjunction, indefinite and question constructions. Traditionally, these particles have been called Q-particles (i.e. Hagstrom (1998); …
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Social inequality, reproductive health and child development : a Chhattisgarh village study
… under-researched geography at the confluence of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian cultural streams has interesting insights to offer for social theory into the determinants of female power. Important elements of northern kinship based on exogamous principles, theoretically less favourable for female …
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
"In this thesis I examine a variety of linguistic elements which involve ``alternative'' semantic values---a class arguably including focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions---and the connections between these elements. This study focusses on the analysis of such elements in Sinhala, …