Indologica

Drocco, Andrea:
L' ergatività in hindi : Studio diacronico del processo di diffusione della posposizione "ne" / Andrea Drocco. - Alessandria : Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008. - XXIV, 412 S. - (DOST monographs ; 3)
ISBN 978-88-6274-031-9 / 88-6274-031-X
EUR 34,00
Hochschulschrift. Zugl. Tesi di dottorato, Torino, Univ., 2004

Beschreibung
Nelle costruzioni passate la hindī moderna condivide con altre lingue indo-arie (es. pañjābī, marāṭhī, gujarātī) il tipo morfosintattico conosciuto come ergativo o assolutivo-ergativo. Se è vero però che gli studi focalizzati sulla possibile genesi dell'ergatività in indo-ario, concentrati quindi soprattutto sull'antico indo-ario e sul medio-indo-ario, sono molti, è altrettanto vero che i linguisti che si sono occupati dell'evoluzione dei sistemi assolutivo-ergativi a partire dall'ultima fase del medio-indo-ario, l'apabhraṃśa, fino alle lingue indo-arie moderne appaiono come figure isolate nel panorama linguistico.
   Il presente volume, adottando il quadro di riferimento tipologico-funzionale coniugato con l'analisi empirica circostanziata dei fenomeni sintattici legati all'espressione dell'ergatività, cerca di far luce sulle modalità attraverso le quali nella hindī si è giunti alla completa 'estensione' della posposizione per l'ergativo negli enunciati al passato. È così delineato il processo di diffusione e generalizzazione della marca di caso analitica ne originatosi soltanto a partire dal XVII secolo e strettamente correlato alle dinamiche di conservazione del sistema assolutivo-ergativo originario dell'indo-ario, dal quale sarebbe appunto derivato quello tuttora attestato in alcune lingue neo-indo-arie. I risultati conseguiti pongono bene in evidenza che nel corso di tale processo non sono intervenuti solamente criteri di natura morfosintattica, ma anche altri fattori, più precisamente di natura semantica e/o pragmatica, e verificano inoltre, in maniera critica, i parametri che nella tipologia funzionale sono stati utilizzati per definire l'ergatività sulla base di altre tradizioni linguistiche. [Verlagsinformation]

Quellen: Edizioni dell'Orso; Libreria Universitaria; WorldCat.
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Syntax; Ergativität; Sprachwissenschaft

Bauer, Selket:
The Sociolinguistics of English-Hindi Code-Switching : a case study from India / Selket Bauer. - Saarbrücken : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. - 92 S.
ISBN 978-3-8364-7247-0 / 3-8364-7247-3
EUR 49,00

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Beschreibung
A major part of the world's population is bi- or multilingual. Since code-switching is common practice in bilinguals' speech, even various commercial disciplines arebecoming increasingly interested in this phenomenon and its underlying mechanisms and effects. Sociolinguistic research, which aims at determining how code-switching creates social meaning and which discourse functions it serves, represents an important field of code-switching research.While all of South Asia is characterised by bi- or multilingualism, there is probably no multilingual society more complex than the Indian one. Apart from the two national languages English and Hindi, more than 100 distinct languages are spoken in the country, with permanent code-switching between several of these languages being an established and accepted practice.This book discusses the different sociolinguistic code-switching theories and their applicability to the Indian context. It then studies English-Hindi code-switching and analyzes the findings against the background of the different theories. The book is aimed both at sociolinguists as well as laypersons interested in the amazing Indian multilingual environment. [Buchkatalog.de]

Autorin

SELKET BAUER, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Universität Mannheim. Profil-Seite; Weblog.

Quellen: Amazon (Deutschland); Libreria Universitaria; Kinokuniya; Buchkatalog.de.
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Englisch; Bilingualismus; Code-Switching; Sprachwissenschaft

Dimitrova, Diana
Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama : an exploration of the issues of religion and gender in Hindi drama from the 1880s to the 1960s / Diana Dimitrova. - Montreal, London and Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. - ca. 168 S.
ISBN 978-0-7735-3364-6 / 0-7735-3364-8
US$ 75,00 / £ 45,00

Beschreibung
Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived.
   Her focus is on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and whether the seven representative dramatists discussed in this book present conservative or liberating Hindu images of the feminine. She examines how the intersections of gender, religion, and ideology account for the creation of the canon of modern Hindi drama, specifically the assertion of a conservative interpretation of orthodox Hindu images of the feminine as well as the exclusion of dramatists who introduce innovative liberating images of the feminine.
   The overt reason for the negative attitude toward this innovative representation of gender is that it is perceived as "Western" and thus "Non-Indian." By contrast, the author's analysis of Hindu mythology, religion, and theatre history reveals that the new interpretation of gender is deeply embedded in Hindu tradition and is thus both Hindu Indian and modernist Western in character. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Introduction. ix
1. An Invitation to Modern Hindi Theatre. 3
2. Images of the Feminine in Hindu Traditions. 15
3. Remythologizing Tradition: Confinement or Liberation for Women? 23
4. Subverting Tradition: The Liberating Innovations of Upendranath Ask. 49
5. The Heroines. 71
Conclusion: Creating the Canon of Hindi Drama. 86
Summary of Dramas. 99
Glossary of Hindi and Sanskrit Words and Hindu Terms. 103
Notes. 109
Bibliography. 123
Index. 143

Autorin

DIANA DIMITROVA is assistant professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions, Michigan State University, and author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre. Faculty profile.

Quellen: McGill-Queens University Press; WorldCat; Amazon
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Literatur; Schauspiel; Gender studies

Kumar, Arvind / Kumar, Kusum:
The Penguin English-Hindi, Hindi-English Thesaurus and Dictionary / by Arvind Kumar ; Kusum Kumar. - Part 1-3. - New Delhi : Penguin Books India in association with Yatra Books, 2007. - zus. ca. 3144 S.
ISBN 0-14-310260-5
Rs. 3999,00
US$ 179,30 (D.K.Agencies)
Paralleltitel in Devanagari: Iṃgliś-Hiṃdī Hiṃdī-Iṃgliś thisāras (इंग्लिश-हिंदी हिंदी-इंग्लिश थिसारस)

Beschreibung
The three-volume Penguin English–Hindi/Hindi–English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a landmark in bilingual lexicography. Today, just as more Hindi-speakers than ever before are eager to master English, a large number of Indians and non-Indians are learning Hindi through the medium of English. Global communication and educational systems today demand a bilingual dictionary and thesaurus that covers a wide spectrum of social and cultural terms, both Indian and non-Indian. This remarkable book, arranged thematically with two bilingual dictionaries and indexes and extremely easy to use, fits the bill admirably.

The book is divided into three parts:
Part 1 English–Hindi/Hindi–English Thesaurus
Part 2 English–Hindi Dictionary and Index
Part 3 Hindi–English Dictionary and Index

Part 1 is divided into 988 headings or word groups further subdivided into 25,562 subheadings or sub-categories, containing 548,330 expressions in all, of which 257,853 are in English and 290,477 in Hindi with cross-references to similar or opposite concepts, a feature not found in any other thesaurus.
    Not only a vast repository of synonyms and antonyms in both languages, The Penguin English–Hindi/Hindi–English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a resourceful cross-cultural handbook that provides numerous references to help understand and appreciate the sense behind a word or concept in either language. When required, it provides short indicative definitions, examples, samples and references to similar and opposite concepts to further help absorb the import behind a word.
    The book has been designed to serve the needs of all Indians living anywhere in the world, who use or want to use either or both languages, as well as all non-Indians who have to do anything with South Asia, who want to learn Hindi, increase their vocabulary and diction, and need to communicate fluently. In its scope and spread, it leaves all other bilingual thesauruses or dictionaries far behind. [Verlagsinformation]

Autoren

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Siehe Weblog von Arvind Kumar: Arvind's Koshnama.

Quellen: Penguin Books India; D. K. Agencies; Arvind's Koshnama.
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Wörterbuch; Nachschlagewerk

Sinha, Kadambari:
Konversationskurs Hindi / Kadambari Sinha. - Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag, 2007. - X, 174 S. + 1 Audio-CD
ISBN 978-3-87548-488-5
EUR 29,80

Beschreibung
Zielgruppe: Lernende mit guten Grundkenntnissen und Studierende der Indologie, die sich um praktisch anwendbare Sprachkenntnisse bemühen. Die Beherrschung der Devanagari-Schrift wird vorausgesetzt.
   Lernziele: Erweiterte Wortschatzkenntnisse, sicherer Gebrauch idiomatischer Redewendungen, in Alltag und Beruf Gespräche über allgemeine Themen führen zu können.
   Konzeption: In 15 Kapitel mit je zwei bis vier in Dialogform dargestellten Situationen (auf Hindi und in deutscher Übersetzung) vermittelt dieser Konversationskurs zu wichtigen Alltagsthemen den entsprechenden Wortschatz und die für ein authentisches Gespräch erforderlichen Redewendungen. Zu jedem Dialog gibt es ein hindi-deutsches Vokabelverzeichnis. Zum Nachschlagen werden am Ende des Buches alle in den Kapiteln vorkommenden Vokabeln in einem Vokabelverzeichnis Hindi-Deutsch aufgeführt.
   Mithilfe der Audio-CD kann die korrekte Aussprache bzw. die Intonation des Hindi geübt werden. [Buske Verlag]

Quellen: Buske Verlag; Amazon (Deutschland).
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Sprachlehrgang

Asani, Ali S[ultaan] / Hyder, Syed Akbar:
Let's study Urdu / Ali S. Asani and Syed Akbar Hyder. - Vol. 1-2. - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2007. - ca. 528 S. + Datenträger
Bandaufführung:
Vol. 1: An introductory course
ISBN 978-0-30011400-3 / 0-30011400-1 (v. 1)
US$ 45,00
Vol. 2: An introduction to the script
ISBN 978-0-30012060-8 / 0-30012060-5 (v. 2)
US$ 20,00

Beschreibung
Let's Study Urdu! is a comprehensive introduction to the Urdu language that draws on a range of real-life contexts, popular film songs, and prized works of Urdu literature. A variety of effective aural, oral, and written drills will help students master the language while keeping them entertained. Let’s Study Urdu! provides students of diverse backgrounds, including heritage speakers, the opportunity to enhance their competency over basic grammatical structures so that they can comfortably use the language in Urdu-speaking milieus from South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. [Verlagsinformation]

Autor

Ali Asani is professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures at Harvard University. Faculty profile.

(Bildquelle: The Annual of Urdu Studies)
Syed Akbar Hyder is assistant professor of Asian Studies & Islamic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Faculty profile.

Quellen: Yale University Press; Yale University Press; Amazon (Deutschland) (Vol. 1); Amazon (Deutschland) (Vol. 2).
Schlagwörter: Urdu; Grammatik; Lehrbuch

Petievich, Carla:
When Men Speak as Women : Vocal Masquerade in Indo-Muslim Poetry / Carla Petievich. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 366 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-567738-6 / 0-19-567738-2 (Hardcover)
Rs. 695,00
US$ 17,82 (Eastern Book Corp.)
US$ 20,00 (Biblia Impex)
US$ 40,00 (Vedams Books)
US$ 44,10 (Bagchee)

Beschreibung
A lovelorn concubine, a young woman on the verge of marriage, a married woman in love with another, a woman in love with God. This collection presents unusual and lesser-known love lyrics from the Indo-Muslim literary tradition that have given voice over the last five centuries to the erotic and the spiritual, the mundane and the sublime.
   Translated from early Punjabi as well as Dakani and Lakhnavi Urdu, these poems were authored by men but narrated in the feminine voice. Largely forgotten today, the poets hailed from widely divergent milieux—from the royal courts of the Deccan, the urban sophistication of Lucknow to rural Punjab—bringing a remarkable versatility to their poetry.
   Taken together, these marginalized poems trace a history of the aesthetics of love that has roots simultaneously in the mystical poetry of Sufism and in Bhakti devotionalism. Petievich argues that the poems, through their marginality, reflect how the Urdu literary canon has been constructed around concerns of gender, region, and ethnic nationalism.
   The book is divided into three sections: sixteenth- and eighteenth-century Punjabi kafis; early Urdu ghazals from the Deccan; and rekhti ghazals from nineteenth-century Lucknow. Beginning with a comprehensive overview, Petievich prefaces each section with descriptive passages and profiles of the poets where possible.
   Each poem appears in the original Urdu alongside the English translation and transliteration, making this a delightful read for connoisseurs of Urdu poetry as well as the enthusiastic beginner. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Introduction
1. Punjabi Kafis
2. Dakani Ghazals
3. Rekhti poems
Appendix
Bibliography.

Autorin

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CARLA PETIEVICH, Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Faculty profile.

Quellen: Bagchee; Oxford University Press; Vedams Books; Eastern Book Corp.; Biblia Impex.
Schlagwörter: Urdu; Panjabi; Literaturgeschichte; Dichtung

Agnihotri, Rama Kant:
Hindi : an essential grammar / Rama Agnihotri. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2007. - xxii, 274 S. - (Essential Grammars)
ISBN 978-0-415-35670-1 / 0-415-35670-9
£ 65,00 / US$ 120,00 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-415-35671-8 / 0-415-35671-7
£ 17,99 (Paperback)

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Beschreibung
This text provides a reader-friendly guide to the structural patterns of modern standard Hindi. Ideal for both independent learners and classroom students alike, the book covers the essentials of Hindi Grammar in readable, jargon-free sections. [Routledge]

Inhalt
PART I
1: Introduction
2: Simple Hindi Sentence
3: Negatives
4: Questions
5: Imperatives
6: Exclamations
PART II
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 III
15: Reduplication
16: Compounds
17: Causatives
PART IV
18: Personal Pronouns
19: Other Pronouns
20: Postpositions
21: Emphatic Particles hii, bhii and to
22: Other Invariants
PART V
23: Habitual Aspect
24: Progressive Aspect
25: Passive
26: Subjunctive and Future
27: The Ergative Pattern
28: Possession
29: Experiencer Subject
30: Verb caahiye
31: Compound Verbs
PART VI
32: Coordination and Subordination
33: Complex Sentences
34: Relative Clauses
35: Participles
PART VII
36: Hindi Sounds and Script: Vowels
37: Consonantal Sounds
38: Nasal Consonants and Vowel Nasalisation
39: Syllabic Structure
Appendices
A. Grammar in Action
B. Glossary of Technical Terms
Bibliography
Subject Index

Autor
Prof. RAMA KANT AGNIHOTRI is at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Delhi. He specialises in applied linguistics, language teaching and ELT, University of Delhi, India. Faculty profile.

Quellen: Routledge.
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Grammatik; Lehrbuch

Du Perron, Lalita:
Hindi poetry in a musical genre : ṭhumrī lyrics / Lalita du Perron. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xiii, 234 S. : Ill. - (Royal Asiatic Society books)
ISBN 978-0-415-39446-8 / 0-415-39446-5 (Hardback)
£ 80,00 / US$ 135,00
ISBN 978-0-203-96806-2 / 0-203-96806-9 (Ebook)
£ 80,00
Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: London, Univ. (SOAS), Diss., 2000 (laut OPAC des SOAS: 1983?) unter dem Titel: The lyrics of ṭhumrī : Hindi poetry in a musical genre / Lara Mirene (Lalita) du Perron.

Beschreibung
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century.
   Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective. On a cultural level, it discusses the interface between devotional and secular poetry. Furthermore, it explains the impact of social and political change on the musical life on North India. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
Notes on transliteration
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. "I get no peace": The female voice in thumri
3. Pining & Pranking: The themes of thumri
4. Courtesans & Patrons: The context of thumri
5. "My little bed is empty":The language of thumri
6. Rhyme & Metre: The form of thumri
7. Genre, Authenticity, and Tradition
8. Conclusion
Main Corpus
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Autorin

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LALITA DU PERRON [also Lara Mirene du Perron] (*1967) received her PhD from SOAS, University of London. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Music, SOAS, and she specialises in music and poetry of the classics of Hindustani music 1903-75.

Quellen: Routledge; Amazon; Library of Congress.
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Dichtung; Musik; Thumri

Kachru, Yamuna:
Hindi / Yamuna Kachru. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2006. - xxii, 309 S. - (London Oriental & African language library ; 12)
ISBN 90-272-3812-X
US$ 150,00 / EUR 125,00
-- Angekündigt für Dezember 2006 --
Beschreibung
This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of recent linguistic theories. The account presented here, however, is free from abstruse technical vocabulary and modes of presentation that aim at justifying a particular linguistic model. This volume is primarily designed as a source of reference for linguists and educators who want to be better informed about the forms and functions of Hindi, and a resource for students and teachers of Hindi.
   Hindi, the official language of the Republic of India, is the second most widely spoken language with approximately three hundred and fifty million speakers. In its diasporic contexts, it is spoken in Africa, Australia, Europe, Fiji, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. An Indo-European language by genetic affiliation, Hindi shares many characteristics with Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, and Sino-Tibetan languages of the subcontinent. In addition, Hindi has assimilated features of Arabic, Persian and English in a variety of its functionally determined styles. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface. xv?xvii
Symbols and Abbreviations. xix?xxi
1. Introduction. 1?11
2. Sound System. 13?36
3. Devanagari Script. 37?41
4. Parts of Speech. 43?110
5. Word Formation. 111?129
6. The Noun Phrase. 131?137
7. Verb and Verb Phrase. 139?157
8. Syntax: Simple Sentence. 159?213
9. Syntax: Complex and Compound Sentences. 215?244
10. Information Structure. 245?254
11. Discourse Structure. 255?275
Appendix 1. 277?283
Appendix 2. 285
References. 287?288
Select Bibliography. 289?294
Index. 295?309

Autorin

YAMUNA KACHRU, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English as an International Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Quelle: John Benjamins Publishing; Mitteilung in der Mailing-Liste Vyakaran (South Asian Linguists); Blackwell's.
Schlagwörter: Hindi; Grammatik; Sprachwissenschaft