Marathi -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Abbreviations -- Symbols -- 1. Introduction -- 1.0 Area and speakers -- 1.1 Linguistic characteristics -- 1.2 Language and literature -- 1.3 Marathi grammarians -- 1.4 Script -- Notes -- 2. Sound system -- 2.1 Vowels and diphthongs -- 2.1.1 Length -- 2.1.2 Borrowed vowels -- 2.1.3 Distribution of vowels -- 2.1.4 Nasalization of vowels -- 2.2 Consonants -- 2.2.1 Description of consonants and their distribution -- 2.3 Phonotactics -- 2.3.1 Word-initial consonant-clusters -- 2.3.2 Word-medial geminates -- 2.3.3 Word-medial non-geminates -- 2.4 Syllable structure -- 2.5 Accent -- 2.5.1 Accent rules -- 2.6 Phonological processes -- 2.6.1 Assimilation -- 2.6.2 Palatalization -- 2.6.3 Aspiration -- 2.6.4 Deaspiration -- 2.6.5 Metathesis -- 2.6.6 Devoicing -- 2.6.7 Voicing -- 2.6.8 Diphthongization -- 2.6.9 Vowel harmony -- 2.6.10 Vowel raising -- 2.6.11 Deletion and insertion -- 2.6.12 Vowel to semi-vowel -- 2.7 Intonation -- 2.7.1 Rising -- 2.7.2 Falling -- 2.7.3 Level -- 2.7.4 Reversal in use -- 2.7.5 Drawled -- 2.7.6 Rise-fall -- 2.7.7 Fall-rise -- 2.7.8 Juncture -- Notes -- 3. Morphology -- 3.0 Parts of speech -- 3.1 Noun -- 3.1.1 Gender -- 3.1.2 Number -- 3.1.3 Case -- 3.2 Pronoun -- 3.2.1 Personal pronouns -- 3.2.2 Reflexive pronouns -- 3.2.3 Reciprocal pronouns -- 3.2.4 Demonstrative pronouns -- 3.2.5 Relative and correlative pronouns -- 3.2.6 Interrogative pronouns -- 3.2.7 Indefinite pronouns / quantifiers -- 3.3 Adjective -- 3.3.1 Inflecting and non-inflecting -- 3.3.2 Adjective types -- 3.4 Verb -- 3.4.1 Auxiliaries and simple verbs -- 3.4.2 Compound verbs -- 3.4.3 Phrasal verbs -- 3.4.4 Tense and aspect -- 3.5 Adverb -- 3.5.1 Basic adverbs -- 3.5.2 Derived adverbs -- 3.5.3 Minor types.

3.5.4 Semantic classification -- 3.5.5 Order of adverbs -- 3.6 Postposition -- 3.6.1 Place of postpositions -- 3.6.2 Postposition types -- 3.6.3 Compound postpositions -- 3.7 Conjunction -- 3.7.1 Coordinating conjunctions -- 3.7.2 Subordinating conjunctions -- 3.7.3 Adsententials -- 3.8 Particles -- 3.8.1 Assertive particles -- 3.8.2 Intensifiers -- 3.9 Interjections -- Notes -- 4. Word formation -- 4.0 Formation of words -- 4.1 Noun formation -- 4.1.1 Prefixation -- 4.1.2 Suffixation -- 4.2 Adjective formation -- 4.2.1 Prefixation -- 4.2.2 Suffixation -- 4.3 Verb formation -- 4.3.1 Verb formation processes -- 4.3.2 Suffixation -- 4.3.3 Causative verbs -- 4.3.4 Abilitative verbs -- 4.4 Compounds -- 4.4.1 Conjoining -- 4.4.2 Compound nouns -- 4.4.3 Compound adjectives -- 4.5 Reduplication -- 4.5.1 Phonological reduplication -- 4.5.2 Semantic reduplication -- 4.6 Intensifiers -- 4.6.1 Function -- 4.7 Diminutives -- 4.7.1 Diminutive suffixes -- 4.8 Unique morphemes -- 4.8.1 Gooseberry type morphemes -- Notes -- 5. Subject and agreement -- 5.0 Agreement dilemma -- 5.1 Agreement resolution -- 5.1.1 Non-perfective aspect -- 5.1.2 Perfective aspect -- 5.1.3 Obligative-desiderative/subjunctive -- 5.1.4 Pronominals -- 5.2 Subjects -- 5.2.1 Nominative and ergative subjects -- 5.2.2 Dative subjects -- 5.2.3 Passive subjects -- 5.2.4 Subject hierarchy -- 5.3 Direct objects -- 5.4 Indirect objects -- Notes -- 6. Simple sentences -- 6.0 Sentential structure -- 6.1 Word order -- 6.2 Copular sentences -- 6.3 Declarative sentences -- 6.3.1 Intransitives -- 6.3.2 Transitives -- 6.3.3 Causatives -- 6.3.4 Impersonal sentences -- 6.4 Null subject sentences -- 6.5 Dative sentences -- 6.6 Passive sentences -- 6.7 Modal sentences -- 6.7.1 Modals by suffixation -- 6.7.2 Compound modals -- Notes -- 7. Complex sentences -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Complement structures.

7.1.1 Finite complement clauses -- 7.1.2 Small clause complements -- 7.1.3 Non-finite complement clauses -- 7.2 Correlative structures -- 7.2.1 Adjectival correlatives -- 7.2.2 Appositive correlatives -- 7.2.3 Non-finite adjectival relative clauses -- 7.2.4 Adverbial correlative clauses -- 7.2.5 Conjunctive adverbial clauses -- Notes -- 8. Compound sentences -- 8.0 Coordination -- 8.1 Conjunctive coordinators -- 8.2 Sentence coordination -- 8.3 Constituent coordination -- 8.3.1 Noun coordination -- 8.3.2 Pronoun coordination -- 8.3.3 Special verbs -- 8.4 Deletion of identical elements -- 8.5 Coordination and accompaniment -- 8.6 Disjunctive structures -- 8.6.1 Sentence constituents -- 8.7 Adversative structures -- 9. Interrogative sentences -- 9.0 Introduction -- 9.1 Marathi interrogatives -- 9.2 Closed interrogatives -- 9.2.1 Neutral questions -- 9.2.2 Alternative questions -- 9.2.3 Leading Yes/no questions -- 9.2.4 Rhetorical questions -- 9.3 Open interrogatives -- 9.3.1 Questions in simple sentences -- 9.4 The scope of question words -- 9.4.1 Reduplicated question words -- 9.4.2 Multiple question words -- 9.4.3 Question words in a non-finite clause -- Notes -- 10. Negation -- 10.0 Introduction -- 10.1 Previous accounts -- 10.1.1 Preliminaries -- 10.1.2 Scope vs. focus -- 10.2 Sentential negation -- 10.2.1 Imperatives -- 10.2.2 Desiderative/subjunctive -- 10.2.3 Obligation -- 10.2.4 Necessity -- 10.2.5 Possibility -- 10.3 Quantifiers and negation -- 10.3.1 Existential quantifiers -- 10.3.2 Universal quantifier -- 10.3.3 Aggregates -- 10.3.4 Approximate quantifiers -- 10.3.5 Negation dependent idioms -- 10.4 Complex sentences -- 10.5 Coordinates -- 10.6 Constituent negation -- 10.7 Nahi vs. na -- Notes -- 11. Lexical anaphors and pronouns -- 11.0 A cross language perspective -- 11.1. Reflexives -- 11.1.1 Swәtah -- 11.1.2 Apәn.

11.1.3 Emphatic reflexives -- 11.1.4 Voluntary reflexives -- 11.1.5 Reflexives in pragmatic contexts -- 11.2 Reciprocals -- 11.2.1 Mutual reciprocity -- 11.2.2 Reflexive reciprocity -- 11.3 Personal pronouns -- 11.3.1 Special pronoun apәn -- 11.3.2 Personal pronouns -- 11.3.3 Pronouns as logophors -- 11.3.4 Pronouns in discourse -- Notes -- 12. Sample texts -- 12.1 Written samples -- 12.1.1 Shrawanbelgol Karnataka Inscription: A.D. 1116-1117 -- 12.1.2 News -- 12.1.3 Advertisements -- 12.2 Spoken -- 12.2.1 Telephone conversation between two women -- 12.2.2 Conversation between a doctor and a patient -- 12.2.3 Television announcement -- Appendix A. The language of women -- Notes -- Appendix B. Acquisition of Marathi -- Phonology -- Morphology -- Syntax -- Semantics -- Other abilities -- Observations -- References -- Subject index -- Name index -- The London Oriental and African Language Library series.