Say it in Sinhala
Say it in Sinhala

Author: Jayaratna Banda Disanayaka

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Guide to speaking Sinhalese; includes brief notes on the flora and fauna, history, and religion of Sri Lanka.

Sinhala Basic Course - Module 1
Sinhala Basic Course - Module 1

Author: Bonnie Graham Macdougall

Publisher: Samurai Media Limited

Published: 2016-03-19

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9789888405916

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Sinhala Basic Course - Module 1 is part of the Sinhala Basic Course. FSI Courses are language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute and were primarily intended for US government employees.This courses are very intense to let a learner achieve proficiency as fast and as efficient as possible. Keep in mind that most of the courses were developed during the cold war area between 1960 and 1990 and the type set in this book is therefore not as accurate as you might expect.

Pronouns – Grammar and Representation
Pronouns – Grammar and Representation

Author: Horst J. Simon

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-09-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9027297533

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The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and interpretation of these constructions. They come from different theoretical approaches and methodological backgrounds and take into account data from a wide range of Indoeuropean and non-Indoeuropean languages. Bringing together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, the volume offers a kaleidoscope of studies united by the common topic of pronouns as a domain of language that exemplarily shows the interaction of different components responsible for computational (syntactic and semantic), lexical, and discourse-pragmatic processes.

Sinhala
Sinhala

Author: Dileep Chandralal

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9027238154

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Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although the earliest surviving literature in Sinhala dates from the 8th century A.D., its written tradition has traced a longer path of more than 2,000 years. Among the major topics covered in this volume are the writing system, phonology, morphology, grammatical constructions and discourse and pragmatic aspects of Sinhala. Written in a clear and lucid style, the book presents a rich sampling of the data and serves a useful typological reference. Therefore this is required reading for not only linguists and Sinhala specialists but also to anyone interested in language, thought, and culture.