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.

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

[...] 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