Author: McGregor, Stuart.
Title: The formation of modern Hindi as demonstrated in early Hindi dictionaries. 8th Gonda lecture.
Description: Amsterdam: Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences,2001. Paperback. 32 pp. (Gonda Lecture, 8). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - In this essay, the author looks at lexical and grammatical connections between older language and modern Hindi, making use of evidence from early dictionaries. Modern Hindi has been widely seen as a new language that came into existence at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the product of new political conditions in north India. ISBN 9789069843216.

Keywords: , linguistics