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Modern Indo-Aryan languages

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  • Beginners' Guide to Tajikiby Azim Baizoyev; John Hayward; E. Rahmonov

    RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 64.95

    This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of Tajiki. It uses authentic language material to help learners proceed through its topic-based lessons. Its emphasis on the spoken language promotes oral fluency alongside written more...

  • Linguistic Archaeology of South Asiaby Franklin C. Southworth

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00

    Linguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. more...

  • Romaniby Yaron Matras

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 51.00

    Romani, the language spoken by over 3.5 million Gypsies, has recently attracted increasing interest from both scholars and language policy makers. This book is the first overview in English of the structure, history, typology and dialects of Romani. It provides an essential reference for anyone interested in this fascinating language. more...

  • Himalayan Voicesby Michael James Hutt

    University of California Press 1991; US$ 12.95

    While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today. An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature?poetry and the short story?this work profiles eleven of Nepal's most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known examples of the Nepali short story are translated into English for the first time by Michael Hutt. All provide vivid descriptions of life in twentieth-century... more...

  • Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genreby Lalita du Perron

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 178.00

    Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shanka in the 1960s. Du Perron examines Thumi Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective. more...

  • Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi Syntaxby Rajesh Kumar

    Routledge 2006; US$ 70.00

    Studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. This book outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. more...

  • The Indo-Aryan Languagesby Danesh Jain; George Cardona

    Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 71.95

    This work provides a synoptic treatment of the Indo-Aryan languages, a language family with a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. more...

  • Urdu/Hindiby Abdul Jamil Khan

    Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 39.95

    Divide and Rule: the British imperial authorities in India declared that the Urdu spoken by the Muslims and the Hindi spoken by the Hindus were two distinct languages, but linguistic evolution theory and studies in fossil linguistics of the Middle East sh more...

  • Markedness and Language Changeby Viktor El¿ik; Yaron Matras

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 132.30

    'Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over more...

  • Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2007by Rajendra Singh

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 176.00

    South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have four major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting... more...