Modern Kannada Grammar

Modern Kannada Grammar
Author: S. N. Sridhar
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9788173047671

The present descriptive grammar gives a detailed and sophisticated account of the standard language, drawing on the insights of traditional, structuralist, and generative linguists, and on the author`s own extensive research.

A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil

A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil
Author: Harold F. Schiffman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999-10-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521640749

This is a reference grammar of the standard spoken variety of Tamil, a language with 65 million speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. The spoken variety is radically different from the standard literary variety, last standardized in the thirteenth century. The standard spoken language is used by educated people in their interactions with people from different regions and different social groups, and is also the dialect used in films, plays and the media. This book, a much expanded version of the author s Grammar of Spoken Tamil (1979), is the first such grammar to contain examples both in Tamil script and in transliteration, and the first to be written so as to be accessible to students studying the modern spoken language as well as to linguists and other specialists. The book has benefitted from extensive native-speaker input and the author s own long experience of teaching Tamil to English-speakers.

Key to High School English Grammar & Composition

Key to High School English Grammar & Composition
Author: Wren & Martin
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9352530152

High School English Grammar & Composition provides ample guidance and practice in sentence building, correct usage, comprehension, composition and other allied areas so as to equip the learners with the ability to communicate effectively in English.

The Dravidian Languages

The Dravidian Languages
Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2003-01-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1139435337

The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.

Understanding Language Change

Understanding Language Change
Author: April M. S. McMahon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1994-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521446655

This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

Profiling Grammar

Profiling Grammar
Author: Paul Fletcher
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1783094885

This book brings together twelve previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay and Swedish. Each chapter includes a grammatical sketch of the language, details of typical language development in speakers of the language, as well as a description of and justification for the profile itself. The book will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists and others wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities of individuals speaking one of these languages. This new collection complements a previous book in this series on the same theme: Assessing Grammar: The Languages of LARSP (Ball et al., 2012,).