A Reference Grammar of Maithili

Description

Abbreviations 1. A century of Maithili grammatical tradition 1.0 Background 1.1 Traditional 1.2 Historical 1.3 Pedagogical 1.4 Structural/descriptive 1.5 Dictionaries and lexical studies 2. Sound system and script 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Inventory of Maithili phonemes 2.2 Vowels 2.3 Consonants 2.4 Consonant clusters 2.5 Vowel clusters 2.6 Stress and intonation 2.7 Morphophonemics 2.8 Script 3. The noun and the noun phrase 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Gender 3.2 Number 3.3 Case 3.4 The noun phrase 4. The pronouns 4.1 Inflection 4.2 Classes of pronouns 4.3 Pronominal adjectives 5. Adjectives, modifiers, determiners, and numerals 5.1 Adjectives 5.2 Genitives as modifiers 5.3 Determiners 5.4 Numerals 6. The verb and the verb phrase 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Structure of the verb phrase 6.3 Verb agreement 6.4 Causative verb 6.5 Compound and conjunct verbs 6.6 Passive verb 6.7 Modal verb 6.8 Auxiliaries as main verbs 6.9 Non-finite forms 7. Adverbs, postpositions, clitics, interjections, and particles 7.0 Introduction 7.1 Adverbs 7.2 Postpositions 7.3 Clitics 7.4 Interjections 7.5 Particles 8. Sentence types 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Major sentence types 8.3 Minor sentence types 9. The syntax and semantics of simple and complex sentences 9.1 Basic word order 9.2 Negation 9.3 Causativization 9.4 Passivization 9.5 Coordination 9.6 Subordination Notes References Name index Language index Subject index