1. INTRODUCTION
discourse structure of the current use of Hindi. This is quite useful
for linguists and language learners of Hindi in various situations.
Agnihotri (2007) is a practical reference guide to the core structures
and linguistic features of Hindi. He provides brief description of
various simple, compound and complex structures of Hindi. Word
morphology, phonology, and issues related to Devanagari script are
dealt with adequate examples. It is useful for linguists and students
of Hindi for reference.
There is a scope for a pedagogically oriented grammar which
provides essential information for the use of Hindi language learners
as well as teachers. The present Modern Hindi Grammar is an effort
in this direction. It is pedagogically oriented; utilizing simpler
terminology and authentic data from standard spoken and written
Hindi; providing useful descriptions and tables of grammatical
categories as well as simple descriptions of phrases, and sentence
types designed for the use of language learners, teachers of Hindi at
various levels. The Phonology describes segmental phonemes
(vowels, consonants), suprasegmentals (length, stress, intonation),
and morphophonology (alternations, deletion and insertion,
allomorphs). The Morphology provides descriptions of nominal
morphology (noun inflection, gender, number, case, postpositions,
pronouns, adjectives), verb morphology (types of verbs, verb
inflections, voice, tense, aspect, mood, non-finite verb forms), and
adverbs. The Syntax describes the structure of phrases, sentence
types, complex and compound constructions, other syntactic
constructions among other items. The Lexicon presents a classified
vocabulary of Hindi under 12 sub-sections. It is followed by Index.