Abstract
The point of departure for the present paper is the status of the bare participial form as inherited from
MIA (Middle Indo-Aryan) by early N IA (New Indo-Aryan) with its stative force.
It is a very well known phenomenon in the contemporary IA languages that the past participle can be
extended by a past participle form based of the verb to be (e.g. MSH – Modern Standard H indi – huā). It
is also noticeable that not all N IA languages allow such extension and that several languages developed
further, and reinterpreted the extended forms. T he aim of the present paper will be to demonstrate how
the stative participles developed in two branches of IA, namely E astern and W estern P ahari.1
The data for this preliminary research has been excerpted from W estern P ahari inscriptions (Chhabra
1957), Eastern Pahari inscriptions (Pokharel 1974; Cauhān 2008; Joshi 2009), reference grammars
and folk texts.
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