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Author Boyle David, Anne, author

Title Descriptive grammar of Bangla / Anne Boyle David ; edited by Thomas J. Conners, Dustin A. Chacón
Published [Boston] ; [Berlin] : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 330 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Mouton-CASL Grammar Series ; volume 2
Mouton-CASL grammar series ; v. 2.
Contents Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- 1 About this Grammar -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Scope of this book -- 1.3 Tables and examples -- 1.3.1 Order of elements in a gloss -- 1.4 Abbreviations and symbols -- 2 The Bangla Language -- 2.1 Population of speakers -- 2.2 History and classification -- 2.3 Dialectal variation -- 2.4 The Bangla script -- 3 Phonology and Orthography -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Bangla phonemes -- 3.2.1 Vowels -- 3.2.2 Consonants -- 3.3 Other phonology -- 3.3.1 Phonotactics -- 3.3.1.1 Vowels -- 3.3.1.1.1 Occurrence constraints and height neutralization -- 3.3.1.1.2 Anticipatory assimilation -- 3.3.1.1.3 Progressive assimilation -- 3.3.1.1.4 Sanskritic vowel mutation -- 3.3.1.2 Consonants -- 3.3.1.3 Syllable structure -- 3.3.2 Prosody -- 3.4 Romanized transcription and Bangla orthography -- 3.4.1 Introduction: our transcription system -- 3.4.2 Orthography of Bangla vowels -- 3.4.2.1 Vowel length in the orthography -- 3.4.2.2 Vowel letters and vowel diacritics -- 3.4.2.3 The vowel letter? and the inherent vowel -- 3.4.2.4 The vowel letter? and its diacritic -- 3.4.3 Orthography of Bangla consonants -- 3.4.3.1 Nasals -- 3.4.3.2 Sibilants -- 3.4.3.3 Consonant conjuncts -- 3.4.3.4???? -- 3.4.3.5?? -- 3.5 Our transcription system -- 4 Bangla as a South Asian Language -- 4.1 Typological convergence -- 4.1.1 Phonology -- 4.1.2 Complex predicates -- 4.1.2.1 Conjunct verbs -- 4.1.2.2 Compound verbs -- 4.1.3 Oblique case-marked subjects -- 4.1.4 Reduplication & onomatopoeia -- 4.1.5 Quotatives -- 4.2 Typological divergence -- 4.2.1 Phonology -- 4.2.2 Ergativity -- 4.2.3 Classifiers -- 5 Nouns -- 5.1 Nominal categories -- 5.2 Nominal inflection -- 5.2.1 Nominal markers -- 5.2.2 Noun paradigms -- 5.2.3 A note on orthography of case markers -- 5.3 Allomorphy in noun inflection
5.3.1 Nominative marker allomorphy -- 5.3.1.1 Singular -- 5.3.1.2 Plural -- 5.3.2 Genitive marker allomorphy -- 5.3.2.1 Singular -- 5.3.2.2 Plural -- 5.3.3 Objective marker allomorphy -- 5.3.3.1 Singular -- 5.3.3.2 Plural -- 5.3.4 Locative marker allomorphy -- 5.4 Use of case and number markers -- 5.4.1 Nominative -- 5.4.1.1 Nominative case proper -- 5.4.1.2 Unmarked nouns -- 5.4.2 Objective -- 5.4.3 Genitive -- 5.4.4 Locative -- 5.4.5 Plural number -- 5.5 Noun derivation -- 5.5.1 Deriving nouns from adjectives -- 5.5.2 Deriving nouns from nouns -- 6 Pronouns and Other Pro-forms -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Pronominal morphology -- 6.2.1 Pronominal stems -- 6.2.2 Pronominal case-marking suffixes -- 6.2.3 Rules of stem allomorphy -- 6.3 Personal pronouns (including demonstratives) -- 6.3.1 First person pronouns -- 6.3.2 Second person pronouns -- 6.3.3 Third person pronouns -- 6.4 Relative and correlative pronouns -- 6.5 Demonstrative pronouns -- 6.6 Reflexive pronouns -- 6.7 Interrogative pronouns -- 6.8 Indefinite pro-forms -- 6.8.1 Indefinite pronouns and pro-forms -- 6.8.2 Quantifying pro-forms -- 6.8.2.1 Declinable quantifying pro-forms -- 6.8.2.2 Indeclinable quantifying pro-forms -- 7 Noun Modifiers -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Adjectives -- 7.2.1 About adjectives -- 7.2.2 Comparison of adjectives -- 7.2.2.1 Comparatives -- 7.2.2.2 Superlatives -- 7.2.3 Historically derived adjectives -- 7.2.3.1 Adjectives derived from adverbs -- 7.2.3.2 Adjectives derived from nouns -- 7.2.3.3 Adjectives derived from verbs -- 7.3 Noun modification via other parts of speech -- 7.4 Determiners -- 7.4.1 Demonstratives -- 7.4.2 Quantifiers -- 7.4.2.1 Number names -- 7.4.2.1.1 Inventory and representation -- 7.4.2.1.2 Expressions involving number names -- 7.4.2.2 Other quantifiers -- 7.4.2.2.1 Inventory
7.4.2.2.2 Interrogative quantifiers -- 7.4.2.2.3 Indefinite Quantifiers -- 7.4.3 Classifiers -- 7.4.3.1 Definition -- 7.4.3.2 Inventory of classifiers -- 7.4.3.2.1 -??/-?a/-???/-?e/-??/-?o/ -- 7.4.3.2.2 /-?i/ -- 7.4.3.2.3 -?? /-j?n/ -- 7.4.3.2.4 /-gulo/ -- 7.4.3.2.5 /-guli/ -- 7.4.3.2.6 -???? /-khana/ -- 7.4.3.2.7 -???? /-khani/ -- 7.4.3.2.8 /-?uku/-?uk/-?ukun/-?ukuni/ -- 7.4.3.3 Functions of classifiers -- 7.4.3.4 Frozen classifiers -- 7.4.3.4.1???? /-gacha/, -???? /-gachi/ -- 7.4.3.4.2 -???? /-fala/, -???? /-fali/ -- 8 Other Word Classes and Processes -- 8.1 Interrogative words -- 8.2 Adverbs -- 8.3 Postpositions and prepositions -- 8.3.1 Postpositions -- 8.3.1.1 Postpositions requiring the genitive case -- 8.3.1.2 Postpositions requiring no particular case -- 8.3.1.3 Postpositions requiring the objective case -- 8.3.1.4 Postpositions with optional genitive case -- 8.3.2 Prepositions -- 8.4 Conjunctions -- 8.4.1 Coordinating conjunctions -- 8.4.2 Subordinating conjunctions -- 8.5 Particles or clitics -- 8.5.1 The particle -? /-i/ -- 8.5.2 The particle -? /-o/ -- 8.5.3 The particle /to/ -- 8.5.4 The particle?? /ba/ -- 8.5.5 The particle /je/ -- 8.5.6 The particle??/ja/ -- 8.5.7 The interrogative particle?? /ki/ -- 8.6 Reduplication -- 8.6.1 Reduplication of whole words -- 8.6.1.1 Repetition of verbs -- 8.6.1.2 Repetition of other parts of speech -- 8.6.1.3 Reduplicative expressives -- 8.6.2 Partial reduplication -- 8.6.2.1 Partial reduplication with initial consonant insertion -- 8.6.2.2 Partial reduplication with final vowel change -- 8.7 Lengthened consonants -- 9 Verbs -- 9.1 Inflectional features -- 9.1.1 Verbal categories -- 9.1.2 Personal, tense, and aspect suffixes -- 9.1.3 Verbal stem allomorphy -- 9.2 Verb conjugation classes -- 9.2.1 Class 1: (C)VC- -- V? /a/ -- 9.2.2 Class 2: (C)aC- -- 9.2.3 Class 3: (C)V
V? a -- 9.2.4 Class 4: (C)a- -- 9.2.5 Class 5: (C)?(i)- or (C)a(i)- -- 9.2.6 Class 6: (C)VCa- or (C)Vwa- -- 9.2.7 Class 7: (C)VCCa- or (C)VVCa- ("three-letter" verbs) -- 9.3 Verb paradigms -- 9.3.1 Simple present -- 9.3.1.1 Morphology of the simple present -- 9.3.1.2 Uses of the simple present -- 9.3.2 Present imperative -- 9.3.2.1 Morphology of the present imperative -- 9.3.2.2 Uses of the present imperative -- 9.3.3 Present imperfect -- 9.3.3.1 Morphology of the present imperfect -- 9.3.3.2 Uses of the present imperfect -- 9.3.4 Present perfect -- 9.3.4.1 Morphology of the present perfect -- 9.3.4.2 Uses of the present perfect -- 9.3.5 Simple future -- 9.3.5.1 Morphology of the simple future -- 9.3.5.2 Uses of the simple future -- 9.3.6 Future imperative -- 9.3.6.1 Morphology of the future imperative -- 9.3.6.2 Uses of the future imperative -- 9.3.7 Simple past -- 9.3.7.1 Morphology of the simple past -- 9.3.7.2 Uses of the simple past -- 9.3.8 Conditional/past habitual -- 9.3.8.1 Morphology of the conditional/past habitual -- 9.3.8.2 Uses of the conditional/past habitual -- 9.3.9 Past imperfect -- 9.3.9.1 Morphology of the past imperfect -- 9.3.9.2 Uses of the past imperfect -- 9.3.10 Past perfect -- 9.3.10.1 Morphology of the past perfect -- 9.3.10.2 Uses of the past perfect -- 9.4 Irregular verbs -- 9.4.1??- /ach-/ 'to be present, exist' -- 9.4.2 /dewa/ 'to give' -- 9.4.3 /newa/ 'to take' -- 9.4.4?- /n?-/ 'not to be, not to exist' -- 9.4.5?????/jawa/ 'to go' -- 9.4.6??? /asa/ 'to come' -- 9.5 Non-finite forms -- 9.5.1 Perfect participle -- 9.5.1.1 Morphology of perfect participles -- 9.5.1.2 Uses -- 9.5.2 Imperfect participle -- 9.5.2.1 Morphology of imperfect participles -- 9.5.2.2 Uses -- 9.5.3 Conditional participle -- 9.5.3.1 Morphology of the conditional participle -- 9.5.3.2 Uses -- 9.5.4 Verbal noun
9.5.4.1 Morphology of verbal nouns -- 9.5.4.1.1 Common form -- 9.5.4.1.2 Alternate form -- 9.5.4.2 Uses -- 9.6 Causatives -- 9.6.1 Morphology of causatives -- 9.6.2 Causatives of pseudo-causative verbs -- 9.6.3 Triple causatives -- 9.7 Negation -- 9.7.1?? /na/ -- 9.7.1.1 As a negator of verbs -- 9.7.1.2 Other uses of?? /na/: -- 9.7.2 /nei/ 'is not' -- 9.7.3?- /n?-/ 'not to be, not to exist' (the negative copula) -- 9.7.4?? /ni/ (the perfect negative) -- 9.7.5???? /nara/ -- 10 Syntax -- 10.1 Word order and clause structure -- 10.1.1 Scrambling -- 10.1.2 The two be verbs -- 10.1.2.1??- /ach-/ 'be' -- 10.1.3 Questions -- 10.1.3.1 Question marker -- 10.1.3.2 Wh-phrases -- 10.1.3.2.1 Wh-phrase structure -- 10.2 Noun phrase structure -- 10.2.1 Word order -- 10.2.1.1 Adjective placement -- 10.2.2 Headless noun phrases -- 10.2.3 Definiteness marking -- 10.2.4 Quantifiers and classifiers -- 10.2.4.1 Bare nouns -- 10.2.4.1.1 Nouns with and without classifiers -- 10.2.4.1.2 Floating quantifiers -- 10.2.4.2 "The whole" -- 10.2.4.3 Indefinite number -- 10.2.5 Associative plurals -- 10.3 Verbal phrase structure -- 10.3.1 Valency -- 10.3.1.1 Passives -- 10.3.1.2 Causatives -- 10.3.2 Light verb constructions -- 10.3.2.1 Subjects and light verbs -- 10.3.2.2 Scrambling -- 10.3.2.3 Light verb inventory -- 10.3.3 Conjunct verbs -- 10.3.3.1 Uses of conjunct verbs -- 10.3.3.2 Selection -- 10.3.4 Imperfect participles -- 10.3.4.1 Other uses of the imperfect participle -- 10.4 Postpositions -- 10.5 Subordinate clauses -- 10.5.1 Perfect participles as subordinators -- 10.5.2 Conditionals -- 10.5.3 Relative and correlative clauses -- 10.5.3.1 Modifying nouns -- 10.5.4 Complement clauses -- 10.5.5 Other subordinate clauses -- 10.6 Non-canonical case-marking -- 10.6.1 Oblique subjects vs. nominative subjects
Summary The series aims to make a significant contribution to modern language studies by providing up-to-date, linguistically sophisticated, and comprehensive language materials, of use to a wide spectrum of users, on major world languages which have hitherto been largely neglected
Notes Includes index
Copyright University of Maryland
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Bengali language -- Grammar
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Bengali language -- Grammar
Form Electronic book
Author Conners, Thomas J., editor
Chacón, Dustin A., editor
ISBN 9781614512295
1614512299
9781501500831
150150083X
1614513023
9781614513025