Old Indo-aryan Morphology and its Indo-iranian Background

This monograph written by the well-known Japanese linguist Toshifumi Gotō contains the first overall presentation of the Indo-Iranian and Indo-European fundaments of Old Indian morphology, taking into consideration the achievements of the Historical and Comparative Linguistics of the last decades and systematically applying the methods of the Laryngeal Theory as well as the research approaches of the modern theories concerning the development of the Indo-European accent and ablaut classes in Indo-Iranian and Old Indian. More than hundred years after the appearing of Arthur A. Macdonell’s Vedic Grammar and sixty years after the publication of the Grammaire de la langue védique by Louis Renou, with the present manual we have another milestone of Old Indian linguistics, in which the almost unbelievable morphological variety of Vedic Sanskrit is presented and analyzed in systematic comparison with its Old Iranian sister-languages (Avestan and Old Persian) in a concise but rich in material and methodically systematic form.