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the masc. and the neu. declension. In this connection we have to note the fact that all the New Indo-Aryan vernaculars, except Gujarati, Marathi and Konkani have lost the neuter.
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ध्वनि) 134c,
Other cases of change in gender are for f. ( 216d (the as also the aft gives the fem. gender even to its Sk. rendering saft: !), f. 78b and masc. ( ) 202c, 214d.
NOMINAL FLEXION
Some cases of special morphological interest.
B. Some notable forms of the 3T-stem.
(1). "Endingless' genitives. According to Hc. IV 345, the ending of the genitive is occasionally dropped in Ap.; that is, the bare stem can function as a genitive form. That the rule has for its basis some genuine Ap. grammatical tradition is indicated by the ValmikiSutras III, 4, 16 which too teach the same thing. Alsdorf (As. 56 ff.) raises objections against this rule and after an examination of the alleged examples of such genitives advanced by Hemacandra and Pischel, he attempts to establish that in the available Ap. linguistic material one does not come across a single form which can be genuinely regarded as an 'endingless' genitive. All the alleged cases of such forms can be justly looked upon as previous members of regular or loosely-formed compounds. It is, Alsdorf thinks, from these loose compounds that such a rule must have come to be abstracted, but in a scientific treatment of Ap. grammar it cannot claim a place.
Now, though it is true that in the stanzas cited by Hemacandra or elsewhere in the Ap. literature come to light so far, there is nothing to indicate that Ap. employed bare stems as genitives. Still if one glances at later linguistic developments, there is much there to create a strong presumption in favour of a factual basis for the rule given by the ancient Ap. grammarians. Thus, for example, in Dingal or Old Marvadi literature cases of genitively used bare stems occur apace. There they are not anything like casual but make up a regular category of forms. And the language of the SR. which bears unmistakable influence of some early vernaculars offers us several clear cases
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