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
TABLES | 6 |
List of illustrations page ix | 6 |
The modern IndoAryan languages and dialects | 8 |
The historical context and development of IndoAryan | 32 |
The nature of the New IndoAryan lexicon | 61 |
NIA descriptive phonology | 86 |
Writing systems | 133 |
Historical phonology | 154 |
Verbal forms and categories | 257 |
Syntax | 331 |
Inventory of NHA languages and dialects | 420 |
Schemes of NHA subclassification | 446 |
Notes | 464 |
Bibliography | 480 |
| 511 | |
| 526 | |
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according adjectival allophone Aryan Asp:Pfv aspirates Assamese Awadhi basic Bengali Berntsen and Nimbkar Bhili Bhojpuri Bihar borrowed Braj Cardona century Chatterji clauses clusters consonants construction contrast Dardic Dative dial diphthongs distinction Dravidian Eastern element English forms function geminates gender Genitive Grierson Gujarati Hariyanvi He/she He/she/it historical ibid Imperfective India Indo-Aryan languages inflectional involving Iranian Kachru Kalasha Kashmiri Khowar Konkani Kumauni Lahnda latter Layer lexical linguistic literary languages loanwords Locative mainly Maithili Marathi marker modern morphology nasal Nepali NIA languages Nominative noted nouns Oblique Oriya Pahari Pakistan Pali Participle PC-I Perfective Persian Perso-Arabic phonetic phonological plural postpositions Prakrit pronouns Punjabi Rajasthani represented retroflex Romany Sanskrit script sentences Shina Sindhi Sinhalese Siraiki sometimes speakers spoken Standard Hindi stem subdial suffix Urdu Vedic verb verbal vowels West Pahari dialects Western Western Hindi words
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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 Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative Literary Criticism / Asian / General |
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