Themes and Tasks in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan Linguistics

BERTIL TIKKANEN is lecturer in Indian languages and docent of South Asian Linguistics at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of the University of Helsinki. Among his earlier publications are The Sanskrit Gerund: A Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Analysis (1987) and several papers on South Asian areal linguistics and Burushaski. Hernricy Hetrricy holds the chair of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Wiirzburg. In addition to the monographs Untersuchungen zur Hypotaxe im Vedischem (1988) and Der Agens in passivischen Sdtzen altindoger- manischer Sprachen (1990 [1991]), he has published numerious papersA related to Indo-European linguistics. He is the editor of Kratylos and. Indoger- manische Syntax. Fragen und Perspektiven. Considering the vast extant Vedic, classical and post-classical Sanskrit literature, the continuing use of Sanskrit as a spoken language, and the importance of Sanskrit to historical-comparative |