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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rama Kant AgnihotriPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.412kg ISBN: 9781032163048ISBN 10: 1032163046 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 21 September 2022 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements Symbols Abbreviations Part 1: Hindi and its sentence types 1. Hindi: a brief introduction 2. Hindi sentence structure 3. Negatives 4. Questions 5. Imperatives and politeness 6. Exclamations Part 2: Words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs 7. Nouns 8. More about Nouns 9. Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs 10. Verbs 11. More about Verbs 12. Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs 13. Adjectives 14. Adverbs Part 3: More about Words 15.Reduplication 16. Compounds 17. Causatives Part 4: Invariant Words 18. Personal Pronouns 19. Other Pronouns 20. Postpositions 21. Emphatic Particles 22.Other Invariant words Part 5: More about Hindi sentences 23. Habitual Aspect 24. The Progressive Aspect 25. Passive 26. The subjunctive and Future 27. The Ergative Pattern 28. Possession 29. Experiencer Subject 30. Verb caahiye 31. Compound Verbs Part 6: Compound and complex sentences 32. Coordination and Subordination 33. Complex Sentences 34. Relative Clauses 35. Infinitives and Participles Part 7: Sounds and script 36. Hindi Sounds and writing system: vowels. 37. Consonantal Sounds 38. Nasals and Nasalisation 39. Syllabic Structure. Appendix: Grammar in Context. Glossary Bibliography IndexReviewsThe most appealing aspect of Agnihotri's grammar is its clear conception of its own objectives and functions. For speakers of Hindi, it is an exposition of the systematicity and rule-governed nature of their language; for learners of Hindi, it is an instrument to further the learning of the language. In its jargon-free description of the patterns of Hindi grammar, the volume doubles up as an introduction to modern grammatical analysis for anyone trying their hand at grammar construction. In doing so, it produces an analytical learner/speaker who is not merely a user of language, but also its student. (Kidwai 2007: 149) Agnihotri's examples quite naturally draw on as wide a range of lexical resources and contexts that an average Hindi speaker would be expected to have access to. The accompanying observations on the conditions of use of the examples, and in the Appendix on Grammar in Context, is also particularly worthy of commendation, as they not only relieve the work of the usual accusations of prescriptivism that grammars typically attract, they also reveal to the reader how grammatical analysis enriches our understanding of the social and the symbolic. (Kidwai 2007: 150) Prof Ayesha Kidwai is Professor of Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi The most appealing aspect of Agnihotri's grammar is its clear conception of its own objectives and functions. For speakers of Hindi, it is an exposition of the systematicity and rule-governed nature of their language; for learners of Hindi, it is an instrument to further the learning of the language. In its jargon-free description of the patterns of Hindi grammar, the volume doubles up as an introduction to modern grammatical analysis for anyone trying their hand at grammar construction. In doing so, it produces an analytical learner/speaker who is not merely a user of language, but also its student. (Kidwai 2007: 149) Agnihotri's examples quite naturally draw on as wide a range of lexical resources and contexts that an average Hindi speaker would be expected to have access to. The accompanying observations on the conditions of use of the examples, and in the Appendix on Grammar in Context, is also particularly worthy of commendation, as they not only relieve the work of the usual accusations of prescriptivism that grammars typically attract, they also reveal to the reader how grammatical analysis enriches our understanding of the social and the symbolic. (Kidwai 2007: 150) Prof Ayesha Kidwai is Professor of Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Author InformationRama Kant Agnihotri retired as Professor and Head, Dept of Linguistics, University of Delhi. He received his D. Phil from the University of York (UK). He has lectured extensively in universities across the world and his previous publications among others include Second Language Acquisition: Socio-cultural and Linguistic Aspects of English in India (edited with A.L. Khanna, 1994), Hindi Morphology: A Word-based Description (with Rajendra Singh, 1997), Noam Chomsky: The Architecture of Language (edited with N. Mukherjee and B. N. Patnaik, 2001) and Being and Becoming Multilingual: Some Narratives (edited with Rajesh Sachdeva, 2022). He is currently Professor Emeritus at Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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