A reference grammar of spoken Tamil
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A reference grammar of spoken Tamil
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Peeccut tamir nookk ilakkaṇam
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Title on t.p. verso: Peeccut tamir nookk ilakkaṇam
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a reference grammar of the standard spoken variety of Tamil, a language with 65 million speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. The spoken variety is radically different from the standard literary variety, last standardized in the thirteenth century. The standard spoken language is used by educated people in their interactions with people from different regions and different social groups, and is also the dialect used in films, plays and the media. This book, a much expanded version of the author's Grammar of Spoken Tamil (1979), is the first such grammar to contain examples both in Tamil script and in transliteration, and the first to be written so as to be accessible to students studying the modern spoken language as well as to linguists and other specialists. The book has benefited from extensive native-speaker input and the author's own long experience of teaching Tamil to English-speakers.
Table of Contents
- 1. Phonology and transliteration
- 2. The nominal system
- 3. The Tamil verb phrase
- 4. Pronouns and pro-forms
- 5. Adjectives
- 6. Syntax: introduction
- 7. Complex syntax and related topics
- 8. Appendix: literary Tamil equivalents of spoken Tamil paradigms
- References
- Index.
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