Seven Grammar Of The Dialects Sub Dialects Subdialects Of The Bihari Language, Vol. 2Nd In 2 Parts(Part 4- Maithli Bhojpuri Dialect, Part 5- South Maithli Dialect) - Hardcover

George A. Grierson

9788178354538: Seven Grammar Of The Dialects Sub Dialects Subdialects Of The Bihari Language, Vol. 2Nd In 2 Parts(Part 4- Maithli Bhojpuri Dialect, Part 5- South Maithli Dialect)

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ISBN 10: 8178354535 ISBN 13: 9788178354538

Publisher: Kalpaz Publications, 2005

About The Author:- Sir George Abraham Grierson, (Jan. 7, 1851-March 9, 1941) Irish linguist, language scholar and civil servant who conducted the Linguistic survey of India (1898-1928), obtaining information on 364 languages and dialects. While a student of mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, Grierson took prizes in Sanskrit and Hindi. Grierson went to Bengal in October 1873, where-in addition to carrying out his duties in a succession of government posts until 1898-he devoted much time to language research. The first of his enormous output of papers, reviews, and books appeared in 1877. Contents:- Volume 2: Introduction � DIVISION I � DECLENSION � CHAPTER I.- NOUNS � Post-positions � Masculine tadbhavas in � Masculine nouns ending in silent consonants � General rules for other nouns � Masculine tatsamas in � Masculine nouns in � Masculine nouns in � Feminine nouns in � Feminine nouns ending in a silent consonant � Periphrastic Plural � Genitive Affixes � CHAPTER II. - ADJECTIVES � Gender � Numeral adjectives, cardinals � Ordinals � Fractional numbers � Multiplicatives � Definite cardinals � Indefinite cardinals � Collective numerals � CHAPTER III. - PRONOUNS � General remarks � Pronouns of the first and second person non-honorific � Pronoun of the second person honorific and reflexive pronoun � Demonstrative pronouns � Correlative pronouns � Interrogative pronoun � Indefinite pronoun � Indefinite pronoun � Indefinite Pronoun � Compound indefinite pronoun � Derivative pronominal forms � Adjectival pronouns � Pronominal oblique genitive � DIVISION II � CONJUGATION � CHAPTER IV. - INTRODUCTORY � Warning as to number and gender � Special honorific form common to second and third persons � Warning as to spelling � Conjugational system � Moods � Simple tenses � Periphrastic tenses � Personal terminations of simple tenses � Formation of tense stems � Present indicative � Preterite indicative � Future Indication � Future conjunctive and imperative � Preterite conjuncti

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