The Indo-Aryan language family currently occupies a significant region of the Indian subcontinent, its member languages being spoken in the bulk of North India, as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. The historical depth of the textual record and the geographical breadth of the Indo-Aryan linguistic area, the diversity of its languages (226 in all), and its many...

In Indo-Aryan languages, English loanwords containing the alveolar /t/ are always adapted as retroflex /ʈ/ [1]. It is argued that English alveolars share the cues of release burst with the retroflexes in Indo-Aryan languages [2]. However, no quantitative acoustic evidence is provided by [2] as to what acoustic cues of English alveolars are important for the speakers of Indo-Aryan languages to a...

A lexical knowledge base is an important component of any intelligent information processing system. The WordNet developed at the Cognitive Systems Laboratories at Princeton has served as a lexical reference system for natural language processing activities. The Indian language based activities at our institute mainly in text-to-speech synthesis and natural language generation from iconic input...

The paper deals with the status of intransitivity in the global economy of the language in Hindi/Urdu. While arguing for the basic character of intransitive basis (on morphonological and syntactic grounds), in the first section, I also show (second section) that the behaviour of reflexive pronouns and emphatics in Hindi/Urdu is typical of languages which display a single base for both uses (ref...

The grammaticalization literature notes the cross-linguistic robustness of a diachronic pattern involving the aspectual categories resultative, perfect, and perfective. Resultative aspect markers often develop into perfect markers, which then end up as perfect plus perfective markers. We introduce supporting data from the history of Old and Middle Indo-Aryan languages, whose instantiation of th...

the concept of indo-aryan group of peoples and their invasion has played a prominent role in explaining thecultural history of the indian sub-continent. it was propounded that the aryans, living somewhere outside india,invaded the indian sub-continent around 1500 b.c. and after supplanting the indigenous powers and culturessettled in india. the aryans were held responsible for the destruction o...

The nineteenth and early twentieth-century intellectual claim to European ancestry stems from the ‘Aryan Myth’—the linguistic equating of Iranians as direct descendants Aryans, or Indo-Europeans. historical genesis word ‘Aryan’ was influenced by First Persian Empire (550-330 B.C.E.) in reference an Iranian homeland, nineteenth-century Western linguists’ associations with ancestral Indo-European...