A Start in Punjabi
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAG513 |
| Author: | Henry A. Gleason, Jr. Harjeet Singh Gill |
| Publisher: | Publication Bureau Punjabi University, Patiala |
| Language: | Punjabi Text with English Translation |
| Edition: | 1997 |
| ISBN: | 8173803994 |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5inch x 5.5inch |
| Weight | 180 gm |
Book Description
A start in punjabi is based on detailed analyses of Sound patterns and syntactic structures of Punjabi and American English. It may be used along with its companion volume, a reference grammar of punjabi, where the authors have dwelt upon colloquial as well as cultivated expressions collated from contemporary literature. There is also a chapter on the Gurumukhi writing system. This book was first circulated in the United States in mimeograph form in Hartford Studies in Linguistics, 1963.
| 1 | Introduction unaspirated consonants high tone | 1 |
| 2 | Welcome home vowels | 10 |
| 3 | Welcome home consonants(kctp/gjdb),r. | 18 |
| 4 | Dinning consonants (kctp/khchthph), Punjabi and English | 25 |
| 5 | Fruit market single and double consonants, Punjabi and English Present/future | 34 |
| 6 | Seets shop retroflex sounds, pubjabi and english r/d/r, feminine/masculine, counting. | 40 |
| 7 | Market tones, counting | 47 |
| 8 | Directions, hiring a rickshaw r/d/t/n, tones, infinitive, present, future, counting in fractions | 52 |
| 9 | Fruit market reroflex lateral, singular/plural, feminine masculine, positive/negative. | 60 |
| 10 | Golden temple amritsar tones, narrative, present continuous | 66 |
| 11 | A folk tale (of a crow and sparrow) summary of consonants and vowels, ph/f, j/z nasls, tones on different syllables, narrative past tense | 72 |
| 12 | A legend (Guru nanak and mardana) narrative, different forms of past tense, instrumental construcions case forms | 80 |
| 13 | Divali (the festival of lights) the sentence structure, narrative present tense, verb phrases | 87 |
| 14 | Id (an impolrtant muslim festival) narrative present tense, verb phrases | 93 |
| 15 | Lohri (the winter festival of fire) future tense, past tense | 102 |
| 16 | Agriculture use of what where, who, why, emphatic, negative, other forms of questions | 111 |
| 17 | On the farm general dialogue, imperatives, pronouns | 118 |
| 18 | Around the kitchen in village present, past, future commands, requests, suggestions, subordinate clauses | 125 |
| 19 | Vegetable market emphtics, intonation | 135 |
| 20 | Suggestions for further study | 144 |
