Rama Kant Agnihotri

Hindi (eBook, PDF)

An Essential Grammar

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Produktbeschreibung

Hindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi. Assuming no prior knowledge of Hindi grammar, this book avoids jargon and overly technical language as it takes the student through the complexities of Hindi grammar in short, readable sections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000622201
• Artikelnr.: 65448332

Autorenporträt

Rama Kant Agnihotri retired as Professor and Head, Dept of Linguistics, University of Delhi. He received his D. Phil from the University of York (UK). He has lectured extensively in universities across the world and his previous publications among others include Second Language Acquisition: Socio-cultural and Linguistic Aspects of English in India (edited with A.L. Khanna, 1994), Hindi Morphology: A Word-based Description (with Rajendra Singh, 1997), Noam Chomsky: The Architecture of Language (edited with N. Mukherjee and B. N. Patnaik, 2001) and Being and Becoming Multilingual: Some Narratives (edited with Rajesh Sachdeva, 2022). He is currently Professor Emeritus at Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Symbols
Abbreviations
Part 1: Hindi and its sentence types
1. Hindi: a brief introduction
2. Hindi sentence structure
3. Negatives
4. Questions
5. Imperatives and politeness
6. Exclamations
Part 2: Words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
7. Nouns
8. More about Nouns
9. Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
10. Verbs
11. More about Verbs
12. Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
13. Adjectives
14. Adverbs
Part 3: More about Words
15.Reduplication
16. Compounds
17. Causatives
Part 4: Invariant Words
18. Personal Pronouns
19. Other Pronouns
20. Postpositions
21. Emphatic Particles
22.Other Invariant words
Part 5: More about Hindi sentences
23. Habitual Aspect
24. The Progressive Aspect
25. Passive
26. The subjunctive and Future
27. The Ergative Pattern
28. Possession
29. Experiencer Subject
30. Verb caahiye
31. Compound Verbs
Part 6: Compound and complex sentences
32. Coordination and Subordination
33. Complex Sentences
34. Relative Clauses
35. Infinitives and Participles
Part 7: Sounds and script
36. Hindi Sounds and writing system: vowels.
37. Consonantal Sounds
38. Nasals and Nasalisation
39. Syllabic Structure.
Appendix: Grammar in Context.
Glossary
Bibliography
Index