Hindi An Essential Grammar

Hindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi. Assuming no prior knowledge of Hindi grammar, this book avoids jargon and overly technical language as it takes the student through the complexities of Hindi grammar in short, readable sections. Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult education classes, key features include: Full examples throughout in both Devanagari and Roman script with a gloss in English Glossary of technical terms and detailed subject index Cross referencing between sections Authentic material provided in the appendix demonstrating grammar usage Hindi: An Essential Grammar will help students, in both formal and non-formal education and of all levels to read, speak and write the language with greater confidence and accuracy. The revised edition rectifies the printing errors inadvertently made in the first edition; it also further clarifies several other issues including Hindi word order flexibility, compound nouns, ergativity, pronominal usage and polite communication.

Contents Preface Acknowledgements Symbols Abbreviations Part 1: Hindi and its sentence types 1. Hindi: a brief introduction 2. Hindi sentence structure 3. Negatives 4. Questions 5. Imperatives and politeness 6. Exclamations Part 2: Words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs 7. Nouns 8. More about Nouns 9. Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs 10. Verbs 11. More about Verbs 12. Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs 13. Adjectives 14. Adverbs Part 3: More about Words 15.Reduplication 16. Compounds 17. Causatives Part 4: Invariant Words 18. Personal Pronouns 19. Other Pronouns 20. Postpositions 21. Emphatic Particles 22.Other Invariant words Part 5: More about Hindi sentences 23. Habitual Aspect 24. The Progressive Aspect 25. Passive 26. The subjunctive and Future 27. The Ergative Pattern 28. Possession 29. Experiencer Subject 30. Verb caahiye 31. Compound Verbs Part 6: Compound and complex sentences 32. Coordination and Subordination 33. Complex Sentences 34. Relative Clauses 35. Infinitives and Participles Part 7: Sounds and script 36. Hindi Sounds and writing system: vowels. 37. Consonantal Sounds 38. Nasals and Nasalisation 39. Syllabic Structure. Appendix: Grammar in Context. Glossary Bibliography Index

Rama Kant Agnihotri retired as Professor and Head, Dept of Linguistics, University of Delhi. He received his D. Phil from the University of York (UK). He has lectured extensively in universities across the world and his previous publications among others include Second Language Acquisition: Socio-cultural and Linguistic Aspects of English in India (edited with A.L. Khanna, 1994), Hindi Morphology: A Word-based Description (with Rajendra Singh, 1997), Noam Chomsky: The Architecture of Language (edited with N. Mukherjee and B. N. Patnaik, 2001) and Being and Becoming Multilingual: Some Narratives (edited with Rajesh Sachdeva, 2022). He is currently Professor Emeritus at Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur.