| Title: | On Instability in the Use of Moods in Earliest Sanskrit |
| Series: | Analecta Gorgiana 398 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| By Maurice Bloomfield |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60724-663-3 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publication Date: | 10/2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in |
| Pages: | 29 |
Maurice Bloomfield was a professor at John's Hopkins University and a great authority on Sanskrit literature and comparative linguistics. In this paper, he shows that as far as earliest Hindu speech is concerned, ideas which are expressed in a given mood may be, and are, on a large and surprising scale, expressed equally well in another mood, the circumstances under which the two statements are made being precisely the same. The paper includes a catalog of all such instances in the Rig-Veda, and presents an interesting look at early Sanskrit's development technical enough to satisfy a linguist, yet readable to a more casual observer.
Table of Contents
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY: I - ON INSTABILITY IN THE USE OF MOODS IN EARLIEST SANSKRIT (page 5)
