460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

Punjabi is the language of the Punjab - the land of five rivers - of northern India and Pakistan. Primarily written in three distinct scripts, a unique feature of the language is that, along with Lahanda and the Western Pahari dialects, it is the only modern Indo-European language spoken in South-East Asia which is tonal in nature. It is recognised as one of the several national languages of India... Read more
Introduction 1. Syntax 2. Morphology 3. Phonology 4. Ideophones and Interjections 5. Lexicon Appendices Bibliography

Biography

Tej K. Bhatia is Associate Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Languages at Syracuse University, New York. He has published and taught extensively in the field of linguistics and South Asian languages and linguistics. Currently, he is an Acting Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Syracuse University.