[PDF] Studies In Hindi Linguistics eBook

Author : Ghanshyam Sharma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110610795

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Trends in Hindi Linguistics provides a snapshot of current developments in Hindi syntax and semantics and covers topics such as definiteness marking, comparative constructions with differentials, conjunct verbs, participial relative clauses, ellipsis, scrambling, infinitives and directive strategies. Together these papers give a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research on Hindi.

Author : Chaise LaDousa
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 178238233X

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A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of “medium,” the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middle-class status.

Author : Shiv-Kumar Singh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527576787

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This book will be helpful to teachers and learners of Hindi who want to understand better ways of teaching and learning Hindi as a foreign language. With the ever-increasing number of Hindi learners across the globe, particularly in Europe, it has become necessary to customise the teaching methods to the particular needs of learners, highlighting the relevant areas that need more attention. For researchers of second language acquisition, the book provides ample information on various previous studies and demarcates areas of further research as well. Overall, it is a must-read for learners, researchers and teachers of Hindi as a foreign language.

Author : Veneeta Dayal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401148082

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Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by strictly local movement. The primary data for the claim of locality at LF is drawn from Hindi but English data is used in discussing the semantics of questions and relative clauses. The book takes a cross-linguistic perspective showing how the Hindi and English facts can be brought to bear on the theory of universal grammar. There are several phenomena generally thought to involve long-distance dependencies at LF, such as scope marking, long-distance list answers and correlatives. In this book they are handled by explicating novel types of local relationships that interrogative and relative clauses can enter. Amore articulated semantics is shown leading to a simpler syntax. Among other issues addressed is the switch from uniqueness/maximality effects in single WH constructions to list readings in multiple WH constructions. These effects are captured by adapting the treatment of WH expressions as quantifying over functions to the cases of multiple WH questions and correlatives. List readings due to functional dependencies are systematically distinguished from those that are based on plurality.

Author : Kali Charan Bahl
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788120827813

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The study of modern standard Hindi, in spite of all the attention it has so far received from an international community of scholars, cannot boast of showing any marked trend towards the development of a sophisticated understanding of its semantic structure. The present book lays a foundation which will aid in the development of such an understanding by making a beginning in this direction.

Author : James W. Gair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Sinhalese language
ISBN : 0195095219

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This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.