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Connections and complexity : new approaches to the archaeology of South Asia / New approaches to the archaeology of South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- In Search Of Craft and Society : The Glass Beads of Early Historic Tamil South India / Shinu Abraham -- Lamination as Production Technique : Patterns and Possibilities / Praveena Gullapalli -- Bronze Age Pastoralism and Differentiated Landscapes along the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor / Michael Frachetti -- The Ghost of the State in Deep Antiquity : A Closer Look at the Harappan Civilization from the Viewpoint of Sanskrit Literature / Piotr A. Eltsov -- Crafting Communities and Producing Places : Copper, Settlement Patterns, and Social Identity in the Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex, Rajasthan, India / Uzma Z. …”
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A History of Indo-European Verb Morphology. by Shields, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…4.2.2 The Origin of the Stem-Formant *-a-4.3 The Evolution of Indo-European a-Class Verbs; 4.4 Theoretical Implications; 4.4.1 The Origin of the Germanic Third Weak Class; 4.4.2 The Origin of the Sanskrit Aorist Passive Marker -i; 4.5 The Origin of the Middle Voice; Chapter V. …”
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Choosing Buddhism : the life stories of eight Canadians by Peressini, Mauro

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; False-title; Copyright; Abstract; Râesumâe; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Life Story of a Project; An Introduction to Buddhism; The Narrators; Methodology; Part I: Contexts ; The Text Boxes; The Glossary; The Commentaries; Conventions for Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan Words; Bibliographic Sources on Buddhist Spirituality; Abbreviations Used in This Book ; PART I -- Contexts; CHAPTER 1 -- Buddhism: Origins, Diversification, Teachings and Practices; The Origins and Diversification of Buddhism; Buddhist Teachings and Practices: An Overview…”
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Addha-Nari : ou L'occultisme dans l'Inde antique by Bosc, Ernest, 1837-1913

Table of Contents: “…. -- Linguistique. Œuvres Sanskrites, -- Écritures Sacrées; Chapitre premier -- Généralités; Chapitre II -- Vêdisme Vêdas; Les Asuras; La doctrine Védique; Chapitre III -- Le Mahabharata aux ruines d'Anckor-Wat; Bhagavad-Gita; Harivança; Chapitre IV -- Les Puranas. -- Le Gita-Govinda; Gita-Govinda; Chapitre V -- Le Ramayana; Chapitre VI -- La Belle Mênaka. -- Çakuntala; Chapitre VII -- La légende de Çakuntala; Chapitre VIII -- La légende de Çakuntala; Chapitre IX -- Le Zend-Avesta.…”
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A glossary of sociolinguistics by Trudgill, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Classical languages such as Latin and Sanskrit, which do not any longer have native speakers, and pidgin languages, which do not (yet) have native speakers, do not have the characteristic of vitality.…”
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Historical linguistics, 1997 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10-17 August 1997

Table of Contents: “…Indo-Iranian; 4.1 A Problem with Unidirectionality: Sanskrit aorists; 5. Greek; 6. Reduplication and stative perfects: a problem for Source Determination?…”
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The Indian system of human marks by Zysk, Kenneth G.

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Hastabhinaja gesta rukou v tradicnim divadelnim umeni Indie by Havlíčková Kysová, Šárka

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History of the language sciences. an international handbook on the evolution of the study of language from the beginnings to the present = Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften : ein...

Table of Contents: “…Bibliographie; 152. The knowledge of Sanskrit in Europe until 1800; 1. The past up to 1583; 2. …”
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Zero : a landmark discovery, the dreadful void, and the ultimate mind by Sen, S. K. (Syamal Kumar), 1942-, Agarwal, Ravi P.

Table of Contents: “…3.2.2.3 Sridhara's Patiganita, Ganitasara, and Ganitapanchavimashi: algorithms for arithmetic operations3.2.2.4 Jinabhadra Gani's Brihatkshetrasamasa: expression for a 12-digit number; 3.2.2.5 Haridatta's Grahacharanibandhana: alphabatical positional number system; 3.2.2.6 Shankaracharya's Sharirakamimamsabhashya: reference of place-value system; 3.2.2.7 Lalla's Shishyadhividdhidatantra: usage of place-value system; 3.2.2.8 Shankaranarayana's Laghubhāskarīyavivaran.a: Place-value system of Sanskrit numerical symbols.…”
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Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East. by Wyatt, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 ORIENTATION AND THE LOCATION OF THE SELF; Introduction; Tables of the Vocabulary of Orientation; 1(1) Ugaritic; 1(2) Hebrew; 1(3) Arabic; 1(4) Akkadian; 1(5) Sumerian; 1(6) Greek; 1(7) Latin; 1(8) Egyptian; 1(9) Sanskrit; Chapter 2 MYTHIC SHAPINGS OF THE WORLD; Introduction; I Egypt: local Cosmogony Traditions; 2(1) Heliopolis: Sex; 2(2) Memphis: (Sex and) Giving Birth; 2(3) Hermopolis: an Egg i); 2(4) Hermopolis: an Egg ii); 2(5) Hermopolis: an Egg iii); 2(6) Thebes: Various Elements Including ''Making''…”
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Stealing Helen : the myth of the abducted wife in comparative perspective by Edmunds, Lowell

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Bengali by Thompson, Hanne-Ruth

Table of Contents: “…Word formation; 4.1 Prefixes and suffixes; 4.1.1 Prefixes; 4.1.1.1 Sanskrit and Bangla prefixes; 4.1.2 Suffixes; 4.2 Adjective derivations; 4.3 Noun derivations; 4.4 Verbal patterns; Chapter 5. …”
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Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds : Their Diachronic Development Within the Greek Compound System by Tribulato, Olga, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…6.4 Syntactic approaches to Ancient Greek compounding: inflected FCs and univerbations6.5 Summary; 7 Towards the classification of compounds: basic criteria; 7.1 Heads, headedness and related issues; 7.2 Endocentric and exocentric compounds; 7.3 Right-headed and left-headed compounds; 7.4 Summary; 7.5 Syntax and semantics as classificatory criteria; 8 A model of classification; 8.1 Subordinated and coordinated as the two fundamental categories; 9 The classification of Ancient Greek compounds: introductory issues; 9.1 Classic approaches: from Sanskrit to Greek.…”
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Descriptive grammar of Bangla by Boyle David, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- 1 About this Grammar -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Scope of this book -- 1.3 Tables and examples -- 1.3.1 Order of elements in a gloss -- 1.4 Abbreviations and symbols -- 2 The Bangla Language -- 2.1 Population of speakers -- 2.2 History and classification -- 2.3 Dialectal variation -- 2.4 The Bangla script -- 3 Phonology and Orthography -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bangla phonemes -- 3.2.1 Vowels -- 3.2.2 Consonants -- 3.3 Other phonology -- 3.3.1 Phonotactics -- 3.3.1.1 Vowels -- 3.3.1.1.1 Occurrence constraints and height neutralization -- 3.3.1.1.2 Anticipatory assimilation -- 3.3.1.1.3 Progressive assimilation -- 3.3.1.1.4 Sanskritic vowel mutation -- 3.3.1.2 Consonants -- 3.3.1.3 Syllable structure -- 3.3.2 Prosody -- 3.4 Romanized transcription and Bangla orthography -- 3.4.1 Introduction: our transcription system -- 3.4.2 Orthography of Bangla vowels -- 3.4.2.1 Vowel length in the orthography -- 3.4.2.2 Vowel letters and vowel diacritics -- 3.4.2.3 The vowel letter? …”
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Spirits and Ships Cultural Transfers in Early Monsoon Asia

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