Niladri Sekhar Dash

A Descriptive Study of Bengali Words

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781107064249
• ISBN-10: 1107064244
• Artikelnr.: 41611649

Autorenporträt

Niladri Sekhar Dash is an Assistant Professor at the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He developed an electronic dictionary of modern Bengali which contains nearly sixty thousand words with information on orthography, part-of-speech, meaning, synonyms, and usage for each entry word. The dictionary is used to develop an electronic Bengali-English bilingual dictionary and software for automatic correction of spelling errors in Bengali words. Dash's research interests include language technology, machine translation and natural language processing.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Bengali vowel sounds in cardinal diagram
Roman and IPA codes for Bengali vowels and allographs
Bengali consonants
Roman and IPA codes for Bengali consonants
Introduction
1. Word: a conceptual complexity
2. Usage of some word formative elements in Bengali
3. Frequency of use of words in Bengali
4. Structural components of Bengali words
5. Use of affixes with Bengali words
6. Postpositions used in Bengali
7. Compound nouns and adjectives
8. Structure of reduplicated forms in Bengali
9. Lexical naturalization in Bengali
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.