Morphology and Syntax of Old Hind?

With Morphology and Syntax of Old Hind? scholars and students of medieval Hind? literature acquire an essential tool for learning one of its important but difficult dialects, the so called sadhukkar? bh?sh?. Based on an early R?jasth?n? manuscript, the volume includes a commented edition of one hundred poems attributed to medieval mystic and thinker Kab?r, followed by a detailed treatment of morphological structure and main syntactic features of the language. The exposition is accompanied by numerous textual examples and index of all lexical and grammatical morphs. The book can be used as a descriptive grammar of the dialect in question, an aid to the study of historical development of New Indo-Aryan languages, and a reader for use in university courses.