Ebook: Marathi

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2009
Pages: 360Marathi, one of the major languages of India, is spoken in Maharashtra State (capital Mumbai/Bombay). This is located in the centre of the subcontinent, with Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages to the north and Dravidian languages to the south. The authors, both native speakers, have been researching and writing about Marathi for many years. R. V. Dhongde, former Professor of Linguistics at the Postgraduate and Research Institute, Deccan College, Pune/Poona, is chiefly responsible for the chapters on phonology, morphology and word formation and has in addition contributed in an appendix an account of the acquisition of Marathi by a delightful little girl named Abhikhya. Kashi Wali, who lives in the United States and is best known for her work on generative syntax, has written the seven chapters devoted to syntax which form the second half of the book. While the two authors come from different scholarly traditions they have gone out of their way to ensure that their analyses are fully explicit and accessible to a wide readership while faithfully following the LOALL practice of systematic transliteration, glossing and translation of all the language material.