Oberlies Thomas. A Historical Grammar of Hindi

Graz: Leykam, 2005. ― 70 p. — (Grazer vergleichende Arbeiten, Band 19).To trace the history of ― the morphological system of ― Hindi we have [...] to go back first to older Hindi dialects and then to Apabhraṃśa and the Prakrits and finally to Sanskrit. While the younger history of Hindi has yet to be written [...] the grammar at hand aims at drawing a detailed picture of the bases of the nominal and verbal categories of Hindi in Apabhraṃśa, Prakrit and Sanskrit. Special attention has been paid to the Apabhraṃśa stage of development. Since all pertinent remarks on Apabhraṃśa morphology have been entered into the index this grammar may prove helpful also in dealing with Apabhraṃśa texts.