Participial Forms In Early Sinhalese Prose
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2798660 |
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| Authors | C H B Reynolds (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-150 |
| Publication date | 1964-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x0010031x |
| OpenAlex | W2114593176 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Among Sinhalese verbal forms, those which may be called nominal or participial verb-forms have received little attention hitherto from grammarians, either in Europe or in Ceylon. They present problems both of form and of usage.The basic forms considered here are of the following types in early Sinhalese prose:The existing grammars of Sinhalese give no adequate account of the difference between the pair balanu-balana in col. 1, nor of the syntactical contexts in which these forms occur
Ancient history · Ceylon · Linguistics · Verb · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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