Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India - To Wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, and Bangali (Paperback)

The Indo-Aryan language family is a branch of the Indo-European phylum, and includes Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Gujarati. First published in 1875, this three-volume comparative grammar of the family was written by the British civil servant John Beames (1837 1902). From 1866 he spent twelve years in India, during which he gathered data for what he intended to be the first comprehensive and accurate Indo-Aryan grammar. Volume 3 focuses on verbs. It begins by describing the structure of Sanskrit verbs, showing them to be the origin of the analytical verb constructions found in Indo-Aryan languages. It then compares Indo-Aryan verbs in terms of tense and transitivity, and explores passive constructions, conditionals, and imperatives across the seven most widely spoken languages in the family. Beames' findings remain central to the work of general linguists, grammarians and language typologists.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics, Volume 3
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	June 2012
Authors:	John Beames
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-04815-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	1-108-04815-3
Barcode:	9781108048156

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