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Beschreibung
Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Sanskrit offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the inscriptions and texts from this ancient and religiously significant Indian language.

Structured around authentic material, and introducing the Devangari script for those who wish to take their understanding further, this first updated new edition for some twenty years also features:

-15 learning units plus glossary and reference section
-Authentic materials - language taught through key texts
-Teaches the key skills - reading and understanding Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary
-Covers Devangari script
-A new Preface and updated further resources
-Additional learning activities
-Self tests and learning activities - see and track your own progress

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.
Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Sanskrit offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the inscriptions and texts from this ancient and religiously significant Indian language.

Structured around authentic material, and introducing the Devangari script for those who wish to take their understanding further, this first updated new edition for some twenty years also features:

-15 learning units plus glossary and reference section
-Authentic materials - language taught through key texts
-Teaches the key skills - reading and understanding Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary
-Covers Devangari script
-A new Preface and updated further resources
-Additional learning activities
-Self tests and learning activities - see and track your own progress

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.
Über den Autor
Michael Coulson taught Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh. His classic work was edited by Professor Richard Gombrich and has been revised by James Benson, both of Oxford University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • : Preface
  • : Introduction
  • : Using this book
  • : 1 The nagari script - Transliteration - Prosody - List of conjunct consonants
  • : 2 Roots and verb classes - Nominative, accusative and vocative cases - Substantives and adjectives - Vowel gradation - Sandhi
  • : 3 Nouns and pronouns - Word order - Dvandva compounds
  • : 4 Past participle - Instrumental case - Past passive - Omission of pronouns - Adverbs of manner
  • : 5 Dative, ablative, genitive, locative cases - Expressions of time - Pronominal adjectives - 'to be' - 'to have' - Absolutive
  • : 6 Feminine gender - Determinative compounds - Prepositions - Action nouns
  • : 7 Consonant stems - Causatives - Prefixes - Use of 'gata'
  • : 8 Changeable consonant stems - Exocentric compounds - Predicative accusatives
  • : 9 Stems - Past active participle - Polite forms of address - Denominatives
  • : 10 Verbal suffix 'in' - Present participle - Imperative - Abstract nouns - Exclamations - Verbal nouns
  • : 11 Periphrastic future - Passive - Locative absolute - Relative pronoun - Pronominal table - Attributively used adverbs - Suffix 'tah' - Numerals - Concord - Nominative with 'iti'
  • : 12 Athematic presents - Gerundives - Relative adverbs
  • : 13 Reduplication - Infinitive - Future
  • : 14 Imperfect - Optative - Remote conditions - Comparatives and superlatives - Constructions with 'iti' - Indirect command - Indirect question - Word repetition
  • : 15 Perfect - Aorist - Injunctive - Precative - Metre - Paoinian grammar - Literary criticism
  • : Appendix 1: Further Sanskrit study
  • : Appendix 2: Grammatical paradigms
  • : Appendix 3: Classical metres
  • : Sanskrit-English exercises: Transcription
  • : Sanskrit-English exercises: Key
  • : English-Sanskrit exercises: Roman key
  • : English-Sanskrit exercises: Nagari key
  • : General vocabulary
  • : Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Fachbereich: Erwachsenenbildung
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Schulbücher
Rubrik: Schule & Lernen
Thema: Volkshochschule
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781444106107
ISBN-10: 1444106104
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coulson, Michael
Hersteller: John Murray Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 200 x 129 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Michael Coulson
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2010
Gewicht: 0,362 kg
Artikel-ID: 108512392