Some Topics in the Development of OIA MIA NIA

Author(s): H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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learn', 'forget', 'drink' — to a nominative-accusative construction), Asamese, Bishnupariya, Manipuri, and Shina have extended what is preserved of it, namely distinctive case-marking of the transitive act, to all tenses of transitive verbs (and of some intransitives), thus evolving a more consistent) marking of the category of the transitive Agent as such.' (Masica, 345)