Dear Colleague,

Although I have not read it, I recall that my former colleague whilst I was at UCLA, Gyanam Mahajan, wrote her PhD on this topic. However, when I looked in Proquest to track this down I could not easily find an exact reference... Maybe it is best to contact her directly? http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/person/530

Sorry not to be more help, Jonathan Silk

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Martin Gansten <martin.gansten@pbhome.se> wrote:

I'd be grateful for any pointers as to what is known of the history of schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages -- particularly, whether it had begun (and if so, how far it had progressed) in the period between, say, 1000 and 1500 CE. This is not my usual field of study at all, so references even to the most basic sources would be appreciated.

Martin Gansten

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