16.556, Books: Lang Description/Typology, Marathi: Wali

[LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-556. Thu Feb 24 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.556, Books: Lang Description/Typology, Marathi: Wali

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org)
        Sheila Collberg, U of Arizona
        Terry Langendoen, U of Arizona

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski <megan at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue.


===========================Directory==============================

1)
Date: 22-Feb-2005
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Marathi: Wali

	
-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:07:11
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Marathi: Wali




Title: Marathi
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 441

Publication Year: 2005
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-europa.com
	
Author: Kashi Wali, Syracuse University

Paperback: ISBN: 3895863149 Pages: 82 Price: Europe EURO 37.50


Abstract:

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Maharashtra state
of India by nearly ninty six million people. It is one of the eighteen
official languages of India. It shares its northern boundary with Gujarati
and Madhya Pradesh Hindi. In the south it borders on two major Dravidian
languages -- Kannada and Telugu. The Dravidian vicinity has considerably
affected Marathi in several ways, especially its causative and anaphoric
system.

This grammar describes basic information on the phonology, alphasyllabic
writing system, morphology, and syntax of the standard Marathi. The
introduction notes the historic information on the origin, and the past and
present  grammatical works. The phonology includes the information on the
vocalic, consonental and suprasegmental system as well as various
mopho-phonological processes.  Morphology highlights the significant
nominal and verbal features. The chapter on syntax describes in detail the
special characteristics such as word order, special features of ergativity,
multiple headed correlatives, and distribution of two reflexives, swataah
and aapaN which are special to Marathi in IA family. The chapter on text
has used free and interlinear translation. The book contains an extensive
bibliography including past and present grammars, recent dissertations and
scholarly articles in generative linguistic theory.



Linguistic Field(s): Typology
                     Indo-Aryan Linguistics
                     Language Description

Subject Language(s): Marathi (MRT)


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=13569


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Cascadilla Press
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd.
		http://www.elsevier.com/locate/linguistics	

	Hodder Arnold
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH
		http://www.lincom-europa.com	

	Mouton de Gruyter
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Oxford University Press
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Rodopi
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
	



-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-16-556