Calques Quotes

“At the heart of my approach to finding the skeletal structure of the Indus Valley languages is my belief that the features of the modern Extended Indus Valley Periphery languages that do not come from Sanskrit and the prakrits are likely to be calques, literal translations of structures that existed in languages that lived in the region before Sanskrit and the prakrits appeared.”
― Peggy Mohan, Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia