MarathiMarathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. Father Thomas Stephens, the first English traveler to Goa, a pioneer linguist, wrote "Christa Puran" in Marathi (1616) and "Arte da Lingoa Canarim" in Portuguese, printed in (1640). The latter is a grammar of Konkani, a language closely related to Marathi. It is the first grammar of its kind marking a new grammatical tradition for modern Indo-Aryan languages. The present volume contains an extensive account of Marathi phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax. It succinctly describes the accentual system, special compound verb forms, unique pronominal anaphors, complex agreement due to split ergative system, and special pronominal marking. The book also contains a case study of a child s acquisition of Marathi and an essay on Women s Language, the two topics that are increasingly becoming relevant to the grammar." |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Sound system | 9 |
3 Morphology | 39 |
4 Word formation | 129 |
5 Subject and agreement | 179 |
6 Simple sentences | 195 |
7 Complex sentences | 209 |
8 Compound sentences | 231 |
11 Lexical anaphors and pronouns | 263 |
12 Sample texts | 275 |
Appendix A The language of women | 287 |
Appendix B Acquisition of Marathi | 291 |
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adjectives adverbs agreement agrees allow aspect aspirated Babu Be-PRES becomes borrowed called causative Chapter clause clusters comp complements complex compound consonant constituent correlative dative deleted derived direct English ergative example express fall feminine final gender girl give grammar he-DAT he-MSG head I-dat indicates inflected interrogative intransitive language letter Lili lili-la Marathi marked marker masculine meaning Mini modal mother mulgi N>ADJ nahi nasal negative nominative non-finite Note noun object oblique optionally particle passive past perfective person play plural position postpositions precede predicates present pronouns quantifiers question reduplicator refer reflexive relative Sanskrit semantic sense sentence singular sound speech stop suffix syllable tense transitive turn tya-la Variation verb voiced vowel women words writing yesterday