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Whispering Words: A Memoir reflects on and shares the personal experience the author has gained at various places of stay, study, work and travel. Though not an autobiography, it unfolds various interesting incidents in different real-life situations and challenges the author, coming from a remote rural background with limited means, has encountered with in achieving his goals. The book is divided in various chapters presenting glimpses of the author’s ...
Topics in Kashmiri Linguistics include papers related to Hindi Syntax and Semantics. The papers are contributed by Kashi Wali (WH Questioins in Marathi and Kashmiri), Kashi Wali and Ashok K. Koul (Kashmiri Clitics: The Role of Case and CASE), Kashi Wali, Omkar N. Koul (Long shadows of Ergativity in Kashmiri and Marathi), Kashi Wali, Omkar N. Koul and Ashok K. Koul (Multiple Case Marking in Kashmiri Possessive: Traditional and Modern perspective), Kashi Wali, ...
This festschrift contains papers on theoretical and applied issues relating to linguistics with special reference to India. Papers include Ancient Indian and modern generative linguistics with some comparative observations; Optimality of language design – towards a unification; Linguistic content in human thought; Case theta role relation in Kurux; Critical analysis of the classical theory; From monolingualism to multilingualism; Urdu as a pan Indian language; ...
Translation: Issues and Perspectives includes papers by scholars involved in translation studies as well as practicing issues of translation. Some papers discuss the issues from the point of view of different theories of translation, some review actual translations, and others bring out the experience of practicing translators. Papers are contributed by Probal Das Gupta, C. Sivashanmugam, P.P. Giridhar, V.V. Rama Rao, Girish Nath Jha, Shailendra Kumar Singh, ...
Studies in Kashmiri Linguistics is a collection of papers related to linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of Kashmiri. The papers deal with the structure of Kashmiri language and society, personal names, kinship terms, modes of greetings, modes of address, lexical borrowings, and standardization of the Kashmiri script. The students, researchers, teachers of the Kashmiri language, and linguists working in the area of South Asian languages especially in Kashmiri ...
A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs contains about twelve hundred Kashmiri proverbs and sayings used very frequently in day to day Kashmiri speech, and in writing. The proverbs in Kashmiri are provided in Devanagari and Roman transcriptions, followed by literal translations, simple explanations, and equivalents, wherever possible, in English. The Students and teachers of Kashmiri language, literature, culture, and folklore will find this book quite useful.
Spoken Kashmiri: A Language Course is essentially a self-instructional course for learning Kashmiri as a second/foreign language. It contains 20 lessons introducing basic structures and related patterns in a graded format followed by classified vocabulary. Lessons contain texts in the form of conversations/narrations followed by drills, exercises, grammatical notes and vocabulary. The students and teachers of Kashmiri as a second/foreign language and general ...