VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
Editors: Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Details: Send email to listserv@listserv.syr.edu and say: INFO VYAKARAN
Subscribe:Send email to listserv@listserv.syr.edu and say:
SUBSCRIBE VYAKARAN FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME
(Substitute your real name for first_name last_name)
Archives: http://listserv.syr.edu
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<html><head><style type="text/css"><!--
blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 }
--></style><title>Re: New Book/Hindi</title></head><body>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and
Linguistics Net Editors: Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Details: Send email
to listserv@listserv.syr.edu and say: INFO VYAKARAN Subscribe:Send
email to listserv@listserv.syr.edu and say: SUBSCRIBE VYAKARAN
FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME (Substitute your real name for first_name
last_name) Archives: http://listserv.syr.edu</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><br>
<br>
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1"
color="#000000"> <br>
</font></blockquote>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>Hindi<br>
</b>Yamuna<b> Kachru<br>
</b>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
London Oriental and African Language Library 12<br>
2006. xxii, 309 pp.<br>
This reference work is in print<br>
<b>Hardbound<br>
</b>90 272 3812 X / USD 150.00 / EUR 125.00<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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 want
to be better informed about the forms and functions of Hindi, and a
resource for students and teachers of Hindi.<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">Hindi,
the official language of the Republic of India, is the second most
widely spoken language with approximately three hundred and fifty
million speakers. In its diasporic contexts, it is spoken in Africa,
Australia, Europe, Fiji, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad, United Arab
Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. An Indo-European language
by genetic affiliation, Hindi shares many characteristics with
Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, and Sino-Tibetan languages of the
subcontinent. In addition, Hindi has assimilated features of Arabic,
Persian and English in a variety of its functionally determined
styles.<br>
<br>
Table of contents<br>
Preface<x-tab>
</x-tab>xv-xvii<br>
Symbols and Abbreviations<x-tab>
</x-tab>xix-xxi<br>
<b>1. Introduction</b><x-tab> </x-tab>1-11<br>
<b>2. Sound System</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>13-36<br>
<b>3. Devanagari Script</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>37-41<br>
<b>4. Parts of Speech</b><x-tab> </x-tab>43-110<br>
<b>5. Word Formation</b><x-tab> </x-tab>111-129<br>
<b>6. The Noun Phrase</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>131-137<br>
<b>7. Verb and Verb Phrase</b><x-tab> </x-tab>139-157<br>
<b>8. Syntax: Simple
Sentence</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>159-213<br>
<b>9. Syntax: Complex and Compound
Sentences</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>215-244<br>
<b>10. Information
Structure</b><x-tab>
</x-tab>245-254<br>
<b>11. Discourse Structure</b><x-tab> </x-tab>255-275<br>
Appendix 1<x-tab>
</x-tab>277-283<br>
Appendix 2<x-tab> </x-tab>285<br>
References<x-tab> </x-tab>287-288<br>
Select Bibliography<x-tab>
</x-tab>289-294<br>
Index<x-tab> </x-tab>295-309<br>
<br>
"An authoritative grammar of Hindi which demonstrates how an expert
linguist can distill and elegantly integrate the insights of modern
linguistic theory and traditional grammar. Kachru provides an
invaluable source for students and researchers for years to
come."<br>
<b>Tej K. Bhatia,</b><i> Syracuse University, NY, USA</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
"A lively written and information-packed work, ranging from the
basic facts about the Hindi language and its social setting to
detailed presentation of grammatical structures of theoretical
interest."<br>
<b>Bernard Comrie,</b><i> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
"A comprehensive study that breaks new ground in range and style. It
presents and explains fully the standard forms of Hindi, its usage,
regional and social variation, multigraded assimilation of loan words,
and the relationship between grammatical usage and affective content
in colloquial Hindi. This book of wide knowledge and understanding is
warmly recommended as a valuable source in consolidating a reader's
early knowledge and sense of the linguistic character of
Hindi."</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>R.
Stuart McGregor,</b><i> Cambridge University, Cambridge,
UK</i></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><tt>-- </tt></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Tej K. Bhatia<br>
Professor<br>
Linguistics & Cognitive Sciences</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
312 HBC, Syracuse University<br>
Syracuse, New York 13244-1160<br>
email: tkbhatia@mailbox.syr.edu</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><u
>http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/sac/Faculty/tbhatia/Def<span
></span>ault.htm</u></font><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"><br>
Tel: 315-443-5374 (off.)<br>
Fax: 315-443-5376</font><br>
<font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"></font></div>
</body>
</html>