The Development of Complex Verb Morphology in the Dravidian Languages
Steever, Sanford B.
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Hardback
270 pages
Tables, Bibliography
Published: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0195064461
An analysis of the development of 15 complex conjugations in the Dravidian verbal system, and the linguistic mechanisms that gave rise to them. This survey of Dravidian historical morpho-syntax is a contribution to the historical linguistic understanding