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Author Kachru, Yamuna.

Title Hindi / Yamuna Kachru
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 309 pages)
Series London Oriental and African language library, 1382-3485 ; v. 12
London Oriental and African language library ; v. 12. 1382-3485
Contents HINDI; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; In memoriam; Contents; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Sound System; 3. Devanagari Script; 4. Parts of Speech; 5. Word Formation; 6. The Noun Phrase; 7. Verb and Verb Phrase; 8. Syntax: Simple Sentence; 9. Syntax: Complex and Compound Sentences; 10. Information Structure; 10.0. Information Structure; 11. Discourse Structure; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; References; Select Bibliography; Index; The series London Oriental and African Language Library
Summary This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of recent linguistic theories. The account presented here, however, is free from abstruse technical vocabulary and modes of presentation that aim at justifying a particular linguistic model. This volume is primarily designed as a source of reference for linguists and educators who w
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index
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Subject Hindi language -- Grammar
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Hindi.
Hindi language -- Grammar
Hindi.
Form Electronic book
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