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 | 18 |
The historical context and development of IndoAryan | 32 |
The nature of he New IndoAryan lexicon | 61 |
TABLES | 85 |
NIA descriptive phonology | 88 |
Figures | 106 |
Writing systems | 133 |
Historical phonology | 154 |
Verbal forms and categories | 257 |
3sg m forms | 286 |
Syntax | 331 |
Inventory of NIA ImiKmige s and dialects | 420 |
treediagram | 449 |
Notes | 464 |
Rihliogrtipliy | 480 |
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according adjectival allophone anil Aryan Assamese Awadhi basic Bengali Bhojpuri borrowed Brahmi Braj century Chatterji clause clusters consonants construction contrast Dardic Dative dial diphthongs distinction Dogri Dravidian Eastern elements English forms function geminates gender Genitive Grierson Gujarati He/she He/she/it historical ibid India Indo Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan languages inflectional involving Iranian Kachru Kalasha Kashmiri Khowar Konkani Kumauni Lahnda latter Layer lexical lindi linguistic literary languages loanwords Locative mainly Maithili Marathi marker Marwari modern morphological N I A nasal Nepali NIA languages Nominative noted nouns Oblique Oriya Pakistan Pali Participle Pashai PC-I Perfective Persian phonetic phonological plural position postpositions Prakrit Present pronouns Punjabi Rajasthani represented Romany Sanskrit script sentences Shina sibilant Sindhi Sinhalese Siraiki sometimes speakers spoken Standard Hindi stem suffix Unspecified Urdu verb verbal voiced aspirates vowels West Pahari dialects Western words
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| 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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