Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Symbols

Abbreviations


Part1: Hindi and its sentence types

1. Hindi: a brief introduction

2. Hindi sentence structure

3. Negatives

4. Questions

5. Imperatives and politeness

6. Exclamations


Part2: Words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

7. Nouns

8. More about Nouns

9. Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs

10. Verbs

11. More about Verbs

12. Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs

13. Adjectives

14. Adverbs


Part3: More about Words

15.Reduplication

16. Compounds

17. Causatives


Part4: Invariant Words

18. Personal Pronouns

19. Other Pronouns

20. Postpositions

21. Emphatic Particles

22.Other Invariant words


Part5: More about Hindi sentences

23. Habitual Aspect

24. The Progressive Aspect

25. Passive

26. The subjunctive and Future

27. The Ergative Pattern

28. Possession

29. Experiencer Subject

30. Verb caahiye

31. Compound Verbs


Part6: Compound and complex sentences

32. Coordination and Subordination

33. Complex Sentences

34. Relative Clauses

35. Infinitives and Participles


Part7: 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