Bengali
Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co
2012.
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| Colección: | London Oriental and African language library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b29215614*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bengali; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Glosses; Transliteration; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Bangla and its speakers; 2. History (Language and Literature); 3. The bangla lexicon; 4. Sadhu bhasha; 5. Bengali linguistics; Chapter 2. Sound system; 2.1 Phonemes; 2.1.1 Single vowels; 2.1.2 Vowel sequences; 2.1.3 Nasalised vowels; 2.1.4 Semivowel/glide; 2.1.5 Consonants; 2.1.6 consonant clusters or sequences; 2.2 syllable structure; 2.3 Vowel harmony; 2.4 Consonant assimilation; 2.5 The inherent vowel.
- 2.5.1 Presence or absence of the inherent vowel2.5.2 pronunciation; Chapter 3. The Bengali script; Alphabetical order of letters; Spellings and sounds; positioning of vowels; vowels; consonants; additional symbols; conjuncts; consonant vowel combinations; Chapter 4. Word formation; 4.1 Prefixes and suffixes; 4.1.1 Prefixes; 4.1.1.1 Sanskrit and Bangla prefixes; 4.1.2 Suffixes; 4.2 Adjective derivations; 4.3 Noun derivations; 4.4 Verbal patterns; Chapter 5. Morphology; 5.1 Parts of speech (overview); 5.2 Nouns; 5.2.1 Types of nouns; 5.2.2 Bare nouns; 5.2.3 Gender.
- 5.2.4 The classifiers
- overview5.2.5 the classifiers- one by one; 5.2.5.1 ta; 5.2.5.2 ti; 5.2.5.3 jn; 5.2.5.4 khana and khani; 5.2.5.5 gulo, guli (occasionally gula); 5.2.5.6 tuku; 5.2.6 Plural formation; 5.2.7 Definite
- indefinite; 5.2.8 Animate
- inanimate; 5.2.9 Ordinary
- honorific; 5.2.10 Count
- non-count; 5.2.11 Case; 5.2.11.1 Nominative; 5.2.11.2 Genitive; 5.2.11.3 Objective; 5.2.11.4 Locative; 5.2.12 Multiple noun attachments; 5.3 Pronouns; 5.3.1 Personal and possessive pronouns; 5.3.2 Inanimate pronouns; 5.3.3 Relative pronouns; 5.3.4 Interrogative pronouns.
- 5.3.5 Indefinite pronouns5.3.6 Deictic pronouns; 5.4 Verbs; 5.4.1 Verb classes; 5.4.2 Vowel mutation; 5.4.3 Verb forms; 5.4.4 Imperatives; 5.4.5 Non-finite verb forms; 5.4.6 Incomplete verbs, isolated verb forms and verbal fragments; 5.5 Adjectives; 5.5.1 Types of adjectives; 5.5.2 Attributive uses; 5.5.3 Predicative uses; 5.5.4 Verbal adjectives; 5.5.5 Comparison of adjectives; 5.5.6 Quantifiers; 5.5.7 Distributive adjectives; 5.5.7.1 Proti each; 5.5.7.2 Protyek each; 5.6 Adverbs; 5.6.1 Formation of adverbs; 5.6.1.1 With kore; 5.6.1.2 With bhabe.
- 5.6.1.3 Adding -e (a locative ending) to some adjectives and nouns5.6.1.4 Adverbs in -to; 5.6.2 Uses of adverbs; 5.6.2.1 Adverbs modifying verbs; 5.6.2.2 Adverbs modifying adjectives or other adverbs; 5.6.2.3 Sentence adverbs; 5.6.3 Semantic groups; 5.6.3.1 Time adverbials; 5.6.3.2 Adverbs of frequency; 5.6.3.3 Adverbs of place; 5.6.3.4 Adverbs of manner; 5.6.3.5 Adverbs of vagueness; 5.6.3.6 Adverbs of degree; 5.6.4 Order of adverbs; 5.7 Postpositions; 5.7.1 Common postpositions
- overview; 5.7.2 Individual postpositions in context; 5.7.2.1 age; 5.7.2.2 upore (also upor, opor); 5.7.2.3 kache.
