Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India - To Wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, and Bangali

Klappentext First published in the 1870s, this three-volume comparative grammar covers sounds, nominals and verbs in the Indo-Aryan languages. Zusammenfassung First published in 1875, this three-volume comparative grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages was written by the British civil servant John Beames (1837–1902). Volume 3 focuses on verbs, exploring the languages' origins in Sanskrit, their tense systems, and their passive, conditional and imperative constructions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book III. The Verb: 1. Structure of verbal stems; 2. The simple tenses; 3. The participal tenses; 4. The compound tenses; 5. Other verbal forms; 6. The particle; General index to the three volumes.

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• Authors: John Beames
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9781108048156
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04815-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > German as a second/foreign language; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics