The Indo-Aryan LanguagesIn his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Masica has provided a fundamental, comparative introduction that will interest not only general and theoretical linguists but also students of one or more languages (Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujurati, Marathi, Sinhalese, etc.) who want to acquaint themselves with the broader linguistic context. Generally synchronic in approach, concentrating on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the modern representatives of the group, the volume also covers their historical development, writing systems, and aspects of sociolinguistics. |
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Contents
The modern IndoAryan languages and dialects | 8 |
The historical context and development of IndoAryan | 32 |
The nature of the New IndoAryan lexicon | 61 |
TABLES | 85 |
NIA descriptive phonology | 86 |
Writing systems | 133 |
daughter NIA scripts | 138 |
Historical phonology | 154 |
Verbal forms and categories | 257 |
Syntax | 331 |
Inventory of NIA languages and dialects | 420 |
Schemes of NIA subclassification | 446 |
Notes | 464 |
Bibliography | 480 |
| 511 | |
| 526 | |
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Common terms and phrases
according affected Agent apparently aspirates Assamese basic Bengali called Central century clauses clusters coming common complete consonants construction Continuous contrast Dardic dial dialects distinction Dravidian earlier Eastern element endings English example fact Figure final forms function further Future given Grierson Gujarati Hindi historical Imperfective India indicate Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan languages initial involving Kashmiri latter Layer least linguistic literary mainly Marathi marked marker meaning nasal Nepali NIA languages Nominative noted nouns Object Oblique occur original Oriya Participle Past Perfective perhaps Persian person phonetic phonological plural position possible Present preserved Punjabi question Rajasthani reference remains represented result Romany Sanskrit script seems sense sentences Sindhi Sinhalese sometimes sounds South speakers spoken Standard stem stops Subject suffix usually verb voiced vowels West Pahari Western written
References to this book
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax Gillian Catriona Ramchand No preview available - 2008 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Indo-Aryan Languages Cambridge Language Surveys |
| Author | Colin P. Masica |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521299446, 9780521299442 |
| Length | 539 pages |
| Subjects | › › Foreign Language Study / General Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative Literary Criticism / Asian / General |
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