A Bi-lingual Dictionary of Prepositions (English- Malayalam)

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Prepositions of English are their scope. The compilers of this work pointed out that the functions of English prepositions centered round two, namely time, place and direction. In other words, every English preposition denotes time and place. Now a question comes to our mind: what is its equivalences in Malayalam? Rather, which grammatical categories, like prepositions in English denote time, space and direction in Malayalam?

In this work, you will find Malayalam case markers and post-positions are equivalent to English prepositions denoting time and special functions of Malayalam language.

After establishing these facts, another question rose in our mind: what is the format (a book or a research paper)? It is decided that the format of a dictionary is the most suitable for this kind of work. It.is suitable because any Malayalam speaker who wishes to know the grammatical functions of English prepositions through his or her mother tongue must know a similar function in the mother tongue.

This dictionary. is a unique one. It is a specialized dictionary (pedagogical) that gives equivalences for English and Malayalam through sentences. Another advantage of this dictionary is the supply of explanatoty equivalences that give meaning or sense of English prepositions.

I commended the author on his work.