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This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today's Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its syntax in the direction of the New Indo-Aryan analytic type. This study concentrates on the emergence and development of the ergative construction in terms of the passive-to-ergative reanalysis and the co-existence of the ergative construction with the old and new analytic passive constructions.

Apabhraṃśa language --- Indo-Aryan languages, Middle --- Middle Indo-Aryan languages --- Apabhramsha language --- Syntax. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Indic languages