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Dhivehi : The Language of the Maldives / Amalia E. Gnanadesikan; ed. by Anne David.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton-CASL Grammar Series [MCASL] ; 3Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (XII, 351 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614513049
  • 9781501500763
  • 9781614512349
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 491.4/89 23
LOC classification:
  • PK1836.1 .G626 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. About this Grammar -- 2. The Dhivehi Language -- 3. Phonology and Writing System -- 4. Lexicon -- 5. Nouns and Noun Morphology -- 6. Demonstratives, Pro-forms, and Noun Modifiers -- 7. Postpositions and Adverbs -- 8. Verbs and Verb Morphology -- 9. Particles, Interjections, Conjunctions, and Discourse Markers -- 10. Noun Phrases -- 11. Compound Verbs, Verbal Collocations, and Verbal Complexes -- 12. Simple Sentences -- 13. Complex Sentences -- References -- Index
Summary: Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, has received little attention in the linguistic literature, and no other comprehensive grammar of the standard language has yet been published.This work describes the phonology, unique orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard Dhivehi. Plentiful examples with native orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing illustrate the various features of the language.This grammar will be of use both to linguists and to students of Dhivehi.Summary: dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, such as a lack of contrastive aspiration, prenasalized stops, and a lack of relative pronouns. Dhivehi also displays features unknown to Sinhala, such as a nonverbal copula and an associative plural, as well as its own unique alphabet, Thaana.Based on both fieldwork and corpus research, this grammar provides comprehensive coverage of the phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard written and spoken Dhivehi. The plentiful examples provide native Thaana orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing along with free translations.Written in an accessible style from a theory-neutral perspective, this work will be of use to linguistic researchers, language scholars, and students of Dhivehi.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. About this Grammar -- 2. The Dhivehi Language -- 3. Phonology and Writing System -- 4. Lexicon -- 5. Nouns and Noun Morphology -- 6. Demonstratives, Pro-forms, and Noun Modifiers -- 7. Postpositions and Adverbs -- 8. Verbs and Verb Morphology -- 9. Particles, Interjections, Conjunctions, and Discourse Markers -- 10. Noun Phrases -- 11. Compound Verbs, Verbal Collocations, and Verbal Complexes -- 12. Simple Sentences -- 13. Complex Sentences -- References -- Index

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Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, has received little attention in the linguistic literature, and no other comprehensive grammar of the standard language has yet been published.This work describes the phonology, unique orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard Dhivehi. Plentiful examples with native orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing illustrate the various features of the language.This grammar will be of use both to linguists and to students of Dhivehi.

dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, such as a lack of contrastive aspiration, prenasalized stops, and a lack of relative pronouns. Dhivehi also displays features unknown to Sinhala, such as a nonverbal copula and an associative plural, as well as its own unique alphabet, Thaana.Based on both fieldwork and corpus research, this grammar provides comprehensive coverage of the phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard written and spoken Dhivehi. The plentiful examples provide native Thaana orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing along with free translations.Written in an accessible style from a theory-neutral perspective, this work will be of use to linguistic researchers, language scholars, and students of Dhivehi.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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