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Chapter 9 of `Double Case': Inflecting Postpositions in Indic and Kashmiri

John R. Payne (Manchester) in `Double Case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme' edited by Frans Plank, Oxford University Press, 1995.

A form of Suffixaufnahme (roughly speaking multiple case on one nominal) involving inflecting postpositions can be found in the majority of modern Indic languages and dialects. In most of these languages, this involves a genitive markers that inflects for case cf. the Hindi ka `GEN.direct.MSg' vs. ke `GEN.oblique.MSg/GEN.MPl'. The papers is a typological survey of this phenomena in the Indo-Aryan languages.



Rajesh Bhatt
Mon Mar 30 11:24:59 EST 1998