Indian Linguistics - A Quarterly Bulletin of the Linguistic Society of India

VII 1939 Part 2 POST-POSITIVES AND PERIPHRASIS OF CASES IN MIDDLE INDO=ARYAN Though periphrasis of the cases by the help of postpositives is a prominent characteristic of Middle Indo-Aryan Syntax yet its occurrence in the earliest specimens of MIA is indeed rare. [...] Similarly in the Suttniprtta and also in the Therand Theri-gathrts the nominal postpositives are very rare and the verbal postpositives almost non-existent. [...] In the Prakrits periphrasis of cases with the help of post positives is very frequent so much so that in some idioms it is the rule. [...] And in Buddhistic Sanskrit periphrasis is the rule and non.peripbrasis is the exception in the idioms of the local cases. [...] In the matter of periphrasis with the help of nominal and verbal postpositives the language of the MalabhErata oilers very many interesting idioms and instances which from the point of view of MIA Syntax are really important.