A Statistical Account of Noun-Inflection in the Veda

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol.
10. (1872 - 1880), p. 325-601.The treatment of the inflective forms of any Indo-European tongue requires a division of the subject into two : the verb, and the noun. Each of these, again, is bipartite: the one part deals with the formation of word-stems; the other, with the suffixes of inflection.For the language of the Veda, three of these four chapters have been made the object of special systematic investigation : the first, or mode and tense-stems, by Delbrück, in his book Das Altindische Verbum (Halle, 1874), p.83 if.; the second, or verb-inflection in a narrower sense, by the same scholar, ibidem, pp.23-78; the third, by Lindner in his Altindische Nominalbildung (Jena, 1878); a careful working out of the fourth, or nouninflection in the Veda, has become a desideratum. This I now attempt to supply.