MarathiMarathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. Father Thomas Stephens, the first English traveler to Goa, a pioneer linguist, wrote "Christa Puran" in Marathi (1616) and "Arte da Lingoa Canarim" in Portuguese, printed in (1640). The latter is a grammar of Konkani, a language closely related to Marathi. It is the first grammar of its kind marking a new grammatical tradition for modern Indo-Aryan languages. The present volume contains an extensive account of Marathi phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax. It succinctly describes the accentual system, special compound verb forms, unique pronominal anaphors, complex agreement due to split ergative system, and special pronominal marking. The book also contains a case study of a child s acquisition of Marathi and an essay on Women s Language, the two topics that are increasingly becoming relevant to the grammar." |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Sound system | 9 |
3 Morphology | 39 |
4 Word formation | 129 |
5 Subject and agreement | 179 |
6 Simple sentences | 195 |
7 Complex sentences | 209 |
8 Compound sentences | 231 |
11 Lexical anaphors and pronouns | 263 |
12 Sample texts | 275 |
Appendix A The language of women | 287 |
Appendix B Acquisition of Marathi | 291 |
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The London Oriental and African Language Library series | 341 |
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Common terms and phrases
ADJ>ADJ adjectives adpositions adverbs agreement alveo-palatal apən Babu Babu-DAT babu-la Be-PAST Be-PRES COMP complements compound consonant constituent correlative Damle dative dative subject deleted desiderative Dhongde eat-IMPF ergative ergative subjects example express əsə feminine free morpheme gender and number ghəri girl go-IMP go-PERF-3MSG grammar grammarians he-DAT he-ERG he-MSG I-DAT inflected inflected for gender interrogative intonation intransitive ja-u kər kha-t language Lili Lili-DAT Lili-ERG lili-la lili-ni main clause main verb majha mango Marathi marked masculine mə-la Mini Mini-DAT mini-la modal mulgi N>ADJ nahi nasal negation negative nominative non-finite non-finite clause Note noun oblique marker pahije participle perfective aspect person pronouns pətrə phrasal verb plural postpositions predicates Pune pustək quantifiers reduplicator reflexive relative clause retroflex Sanskrit semantic sentence singular suffix SUFX swatah syllable syntactic tense tər ti-la transitive verbs tu-la tya-la tya-ne V>ADJ Variation vowel Wali words you-DAT