Hindi: An Essential Grammar

✍ Scribed by Rama Kant Agnihotri

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 299
Series: Routledge Essential Grammars
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Hindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi. Assuming no prior knowledge of Hindi grammar, this book avoids jargon and overly technical language as it takes the student through the complexities of Hindi grammar in short, readable sections. The revised edition rectifies the printing errors inadvertently made in the first edition; it also further clarifies several other issues including Hindi word order flexibility, compound nouns, ergativity, pronominal usage and polite communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Symbols
Abbreviations
Part I: 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 II: Words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
7 Nouns
8 More about nouns
9 Nouns and verbs, and adjectives and adverbs
10 Verbs
11 More about verbs
12 Verbs, adjectives and adverbs
13 Adjectives
14 Adverbs
Part III: More about words
15 Reduplication
16 Compounds
17 Causatives
Part IV: Invariant words
18 Personal pronouns
19 Other pronouns
20 Postpositions
21 Emphatic particles
22 Other invariant words
Part V: More about Hindi sentences
23 Habitual aspect
24 The progressive aspect
25 Passive
26 The subjunctive and the future
27 The ergative pattern
28 Possession
29 Experiencer subject
30 Verb चाहिए caahiye
31 Compound verbs
Part VI: Compound and complex sentences
32 Coordination and subordination
33 Complex sentences
34 Relative clauses
35 Infinitive and participles
Part VII: 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
Index

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