Malayalam Self-taught by the Natural Method with Phonetic Pronunciation (Thimm's System)
Malayalam Self-taught by the Natural Method with Phonetic Pronunciation (Thimm's System)

Author: Don M. de Z. Wickremasinghe

Publisher: Asian Educational Services

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9788120619036

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Having Regard To The Needs Of Students Who Work Without A Teacher, Some Paper Are Devoted Wholly To The Subject Of Pronunciation, Translitertion Of All Malayalam Words In The Grammar Section Are Given And The Correct Pronunciation Of Every Malayalam Word Is Indicated In The Third Column Of Each Transliterated Paper.

Malayalam
Malayalam

Author: R Asher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1136100849

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Malayalam is one of the four major Dravidian languages spoken principally in the southern part of India. It has a recorded history of eight centuries and is spoken by more than thirty million people on the Malabar coast of southern India This is the first detailed description of Malayalam, providing an in-depth analysis of the linguistic richness of this language.

Malayalam Verbs
Malayalam Verbs

Author: Amanda Swenson

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1501510142

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This book, using Malayalam as a case study, provides an in-depth exploration of how inflectional suffixes should be separated from the verb and the implications this has for the syntax and semantics. Past work has proposed that Malayalam lacks a Tense Phrase and tense morphology, i.e. is ‘tenseless’. However, this book shows that Malayalam behaves differently from other tenseless languages and that it does have tense morphology. It also provides evidence that there is a Tense Phrase in the syntax. In addition, it examines what have been called the two 'imperfectives' and argues that one is a type of progressive, while the other is a pluractional marker and shows that Malayalam lacks perfect morphology and a Perfect Phrase in, minimally, Universal perfects. With respect to finiteness, among other things, it argues that Conjunctive Participles are best analyzed as a type of absolutive adjunct and that -athu ‘gerunds’ involve nominalization above the Tense Phrase-level. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in cross-linguistic variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality and/or the morphosyntax or morphosemantics of Dravidian languages.