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AB - REVIEWS AGNIHOTRI,RAMA KANT. Hindi: An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. xxii þ 274 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978–0–415–35671–8. This volume, offered with the utmost modesty by its author, gives an extremely valuable overall picture of Hindi, which, though not understood everywhere, is, along with English, the official language of India. There are countless examples, given in the Devanagari script, in transliteration, and in translation (one might simply have wished for a morphosyntactic gloss here and there, if not everywhere). After a Preface, Acknowledgements and lists of Symbols and Abbreviations, we have seven major parts: Hindi and its sentence types; Words: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs; More about words; Invariant words; More about Hindi sentences; Compound and complex sentences, and Sounds and script. Each is divided into several chapters, there being thirty-nine chapters in all. Coverage is extremely useful and broad and the presentation is impeccably clear. The whole is concluded by Appendix: grammar in context (a brief illustration of authentic use of the language), a Glossary, a very good Bibliography and an Index. The author pulls no punches: Hindi is difficult and requires concerted effort on the part of the reader or learner; the writing system itself 
TI - Aretino, Pietro. Aretino's Dialogues. Ed. & trans. Raymond & Margaret Rosenthal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library), 2005. xxiv  398 pp. 40.00/60.00 (hardback); 20.00/29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0802090044/48900
JO - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqm070
DA - 2007-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/aretino-pietro-aretino-s-dialogues-ed-trans-raymond-margaret-rosenthal-8g0sStuLKQ
SP - 469
EP - 470
VL - 43
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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