Authors:Omkar N. Koul, Kashi Wali,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: descriptive, grammars, grammar, kashmiri, cognitive
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1996-12-26
List price: $300.00
ISBN-10: 0415058686
ISBN-13: 9780415058681

Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists.

Authors:Ramesh Vaman Dhongde, Kashi Wali,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: language, library, african, oriental, london, marathi
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2009-12-12
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 9027238138
ISBN-13: 9789027238139

Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. It is the only Indo-Aryan language whose structure has been influenced by the Dravidian languages. The first grammar of Marathi was written by Father Stephens (1640 A.D.), the first English traveler to Goa- India. It marks the beginning of a grammatical tradition for Modern Indian languages. This book presents an extensive account of Marathi phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax, all cast in a modern framework. It succinctly describes the accentual system, the compound verb forms, unique pronominal anaphors, the comp

Author: Kameshwar C. Wali
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: university, chicago, press, publications, centennial, biography, chandrasekhar, chandra
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1992-10-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0226870553
ISBN-13: 9780226870557

Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes. "Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures--Indian, British, and American--in which Chandra was successively immersed. . . . I wish I had the job of reviewing this book for the New York Times rather than for Physics Today. If the book is only read by physicists, then Wali’s devoted labors were in vai

Authors:Marcia K. Hermansen, Wali Allah Al-Dihlawi,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: allah, baligha, islamic, philosophy, science, theology, hujjat, delhi, argument, god, shah, wali, conclusive
Number of Pages: 506
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $280.00
ISBN-10: 9004102981
ISBN-13: 9789004102989

The Conclusive Argument of God is the master work of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the 18th century. In order to argue for the rational, ethical, and spiritual basis for the implementation of the hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad, Shah Wali Allah develops a cohesive schema of the metaphysical, psychological, and social knowledge of his time. This work provides an