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Syntax of the cases in Khotanese1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Extract

It is surprising that not a single page has hitherto been devoted to the treatment of Khotanese syntax, even though Khotanese is unique among the attested later Iranian languages in preserving, for the most part distinctly, at any rate in Old Khotanese (OKh.), in the singular, six of the eight cases normally attributed to Indo-European (IE), and in the plural, five. M. J. Dresden, in his ‘Grammatical notes’ introducing his edition of the Khotanese Jatakastava (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, NS, XLV, 5, 1955), called attention to the need for a treatment of Kh. syntax. He commented (p. 419): ‘Superfluous to say that the efforts of future research should be turned to this subject’.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1965

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Footnotes

1

Abbreviations of printed works:

AIW C. Bartholomae: Altiranisches Wōrterbuch. Strassburg, 1904.

E E. Leumann (ed. and tr.): Das nordarische (sakische) Lehrgedicht des Buddhismus. (Abhandlungen fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, xx.) Leipzig, 1933–1936.

Grundriss K. Brugmann and B. Delbriick: Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen. Strassburg.

KBT H. W. Bailey (ed.): Khotanese Buddhist texts. (Cambridge Oriental Series, 3.) London, 1951.

Kent R. G. Kent: Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon. Second edition. (American Oriental Series, XXXIII.) New Haven, 1953.

KT H. W. Bailey (ed.): Khotanese texts. Cambridge, 1945–63.

Reichelt H. Reichelt: Awestisches Elementarbuch. (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 1. Abt. 1. Reihe: Grammatiken. v. Bd.) Heidelberg, 1909.

Suv. K. S. Konow (ed. and tr.): ‘Zwölf Blätter einer Handschrift des Suvarnabhāsasūtra in Khotan-Sakisch’, Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Kl., 1935, 428 –86

References

1 Abbreviations of printed works:

AIW C. Bartholomae: Altiranisches Wōrterbuch. Strassburg, 1904.

E E. Leumann (ed. and tr.): Das nordarische (sakische) Lehrgedicht des Buddhismus. (Abhandlungen fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, xx.) Leipzig, 1933–1936.

Grundriss K. Brugmann and B. Delbriick: Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen. Strassburg.

KBT H. W. Bailey (ed.): Khotanese Buddhist texts. (Cambridge Oriental Series, 3.) London, 1951.

Kent R. G. Kent: Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon. Second edition. (American Oriental Series, XXXIII.) New Haven, 1953.

KT H. W. Bailey (ed.): Khotanese texts. Cambridge, 1945–63.

Reichelt H. Reichelt: Awestisches Elementarbuch. (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 1. Abt. 1. Reihe: Grammatiken. v. Bd.) Heidelberg, 1909.

Suv. K. S. Konow (ed. and tr.): ‘Zwölf Blätter einer Handschrift des Suvarnabhāsasūtra in Khotan-Sakisch’, Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Kl., 1935, 428 –86