Singhalese Grammar
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| Author | : Dileep Chandralal |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027238154 |
Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D., its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2,000 years. Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, grammatical constructions and discourse and pragmatic aspects of Sinhala. Written in a clear and lucid style, the book presents a rich sampling of the data and serves a useful typological reference. Therefore this is required reading for not only linguists and Sinhala specialists but also to anyone interested in language, thought, and culture.
| Author | : Wilhelm Geiger |
| Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9788120611344 |
| Author | : Martin Wickramasinghe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Civilization |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Harshana Rambukwella |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2018-07-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1787351300 |
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity. Through a series of fine-grained and historically grounded analyses of the writings of individual figures central to the making of Sinhala nationalist ideology the book demonstrates authenticity’s rich and varied presence in Sri Lankan public life and its key role in understanding postcolonial nationalism in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in South Asia and the world. It also explores how notions of authenticity shape certain strands of postcolonial criticism and offers a way of questioning the taken-for-granted nature of the nation as a unit of analysis but at the same time critically explore the deep imprint of nations and nationalisms on people's lives.
| Author | : Sumith Wanni Arachchige |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2020-02-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
This is the second edition of "Learn Spoken Sinhala". This new edition has completely revamped the first edition. The second edition is easier to carry and read, and has been meticulously proofread to remove some typos and inconsistencies. Sinhala language is used and spoken by Sri Lankans, and it is the native language of the Sinhalese, the majority race (more 70% of the population) in Sri Lanka. It is more or less the lingua franca in the country. Linguistically Sinhala is considered as a language belonging to the Indo-European Language family to which English, French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, etc belong. It enjoys a proud history of thousands of years. Sri Lanka being a miraculous and pristine island situated just below the Indian peninsula in a strateically important position along the ancient Silk Road linking the west and east parts of the world. It had been a colony of Portugese, Dutch, and last the English since 1505 up to 1948 AD. Therefore, the Sinhala language has been enriched by those European languages too. Just coming out of an unfortunate terrorist battle in the nothern part of the country, it is again becoming a hub of business, global logistics, knowledge, and tourism. Already many thousands of foreigners are employed in various projects in the country. This book is the only one in the world, which teaches the Spoken Sinhala language based on a sound grammatical underpinning. If you have a working knowledge of the English language, then using this book you can easily understand Sinhala sentence structures and patterns because the book teaches Sinhala in comparison with the English. There are hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans now living abroad, and this book can be useful for them to teach their kids about the beautiful language Sinhala. Sinhala diaspora all over the world will find this useful. Furthermore linguists who research about various languages throughout the world can use this book for their studies. Now there are a lot of people coming to Sri Lanka as businesspersons and workers on various projects and missions. This book can be very useful for them too. The AUTHOR who is already a chamption in proliferation of (free) knowledge in Sinhala medium is willing to personally help and guide you in case you need further assistance and clarifications.
| Author | : Sheldon Pollock |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 1103 |
| Release | : 2003-05-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520228219 |
| Author | : James W. Gair |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Sinhalese language |
| ISBN | : 0195095219 |
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
| Author | : Alexander Gelbukh |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 639 |
| Release | : 2012-02-24 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3642286038 |
This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 7181 and LNCS 7182, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Linguistics and Intelligent Processing, held in New Delhi, India, in March 2012. The total of 92 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The contents have been ordered according to the following topical sections: NLP system architecture; lexical resources; morphology and syntax; word sense disambiguation and named entity recognition; semantics and discourse; sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and emotions; natural language generation; machine translation and multilingualism; text categorization and clustering; information extraction and text mining; information retrieval and question answering; document summarization; and applications.
| Author | : Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi |
| Publisher | : Gyan Publishing House |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Languages in contact |
| ISBN | : 9788121210102 |
Top linguistics of India, Taiwan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various Indian states have contributed on the features of different local languages which are at different levels of development and face problem of growth.
| Author | : Justin W. Henry |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0197636306 |
Ravana, the demon-king antagonist from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic poem, has become an unlikely cultural hero among Sinhala Buddhists over the past decade. In Ravana's Kingdom, Justin W. Henry delves into the historical literary reception of the epic in Sri Lanka, charting the adaptions of its themes and characters from the 14th century onwards, as many Sri Lankan Hindus and Buddhists developed a sympathetic impression of Ravana's character, and through the contemporary Ravana revival, which has resulted in the development of an alternative mythological history, depicting Ravana as king of the Sri Lanka's indigenous inhabitants, a formative figure of civilizational antiquity, and the direct ancestor of the Sinhala Buddhist people. Henry offers a careful study of the literary history of the Ramayana in Sri Lanka, employing numerous sources and archives that have until now received little to no scholarly attention, as well as the 21st century revision of a narrative of the Sri Lankan people-a narrative incubated by the general public online, facilitated by social media and by the speed of travel of information in the digital age. Ravana's Kingdom offers a glimpse into a centuries-old, living Ramayana tradition among Hindus and Buddhists in Sri Lanka-a case study of the myth-making process in the digital age.
