Transitive Nouns and Adjectives: Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan

by John J. Lowe

This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and adjectives attested in early Indo-Aryan cannot be analysed as a type of non-finite verb category, but must be acknowledged as a distinct constructional type. The volume provides a detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019879357X
• ISBN13: 9780198793571
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"