A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v3.c17.99

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v3.c17.99

It is not so easy to draw out a full verbal paradigm in this dialect as in Pali, because we have as yet no grammars, and are obliged to fall back on the words that occur in a single text. The range of tenses appears to consist of a present (corresponding to the Sanskrit laṭ), imperative (loṭ), potential (liṅ), imperfect and aorist jumbled together as in Pali, and future (lṛit). The perfect (liṭ) seems to be altogether wanting, as it is in the modern languages.

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