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LECTURE IX

Phonology and Accent (concld.)

Section 3.—Accent traced in Sandhi and Compound Formation.

Vedic and Sanskrit Sandhi, p. 128. Sandhi in Pāli, p. 129. Bengali Sandhi system, p. 130. Samāsa, p. 133. Adverbial compounds অব্যয়ীভাব, p. 133. Determinative or তৎপুরুষ,—(1) কর্ত্তা-প্রধান, (2) কর্ম্ম-প্রধান, (3) করণ-প্রধান, (4) উদ্যেশ্য-বাচক, (5) অপাদান-বাচক, (6) সম্বন্ধ-বাচক, (7) স্থান-কাল বাচক, pp. 134-5. Descriptive or কর্ম্মধারয়, p. 135. দ্বিগু—বহুব্রীহি—দ্বন্দ্ব, p. 135. Duplicated words of nine classes, pp. 136-39. Appendices to Lectures VI to IX.

Appendix I.—A study of some Onomatopoetic Desi words, pp. 140-3.

Appendix II.—The Phenomenon of Sandhi, pp. 144-55.

[pp. 128-55.

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LECTURE X

How Chāndasa is related to Later Aryan Speeches.

Relation between Vedic, Sanskrit and Vernaculars, p. 156. Keane, on the spread of Aryan speech amongst non-Aryan peoples, p. 157. The linguistic strata in the Vedas, p. 158. Personal Pronoun in the Vedic, p. 159. Their various stems, p. 159. Lost forms of Pronouns, p. 163. The literary character of the pre-Vedic language, p. 164. The Chāndasa language, a very rich and well developed literary speech, p. 164. It was a living language, p. 165. The phenomenon of phonetic decay or 'Apabhraṇśa' in Chāndasa, p. 166. Loss of initial conjunct mutes, p. 166.