Intermediate Nepali Structure (An Old and Rare Book: Only 1 Quantity Available)

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About the Book This book is Volume One of a two-volume set that provides a comprehensive packet of instructional materials to students who have completed a first-year course in basic Nepali. It is intended to be used in conjunction with its companion volume Intermediate Nepali Reader, and is designed to enable the students to attain fluency in the manipulation of the grammatical structure of Nepali. Most adult learners at the intermediate level require a systematic discussion of the structural points involved in what they read. Very often classroom explanations are casual, spotty and unsystematic and therefore unhelpful. This set is intended to remedy that situation. The purpose of this volume is to present the crucial aspects of the structure of Nepali in terms of twenty lessons. The first lesson in this series is devoted specifically to guiding students in the writing and pronunciation of the Nepali language. The subsequent lessons are carefully graded in terms of increasing grammatical complexity. Each lesson is accompanied by pattern drills and exercises for intensive practice both in and out of the clasroom. In all these materials, Nepali words and constructions appear in the Devanagri script. To strengthen the usefulness of these volumes further, two sets of tapes have been produced, one each for the volume on the Structure and the volume on the Reader.

About the Authors Dr. M.K. Verma is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is also the Chairman and Director of South Asian Studies at that University. His publications include books on the Structure of Noun Phrase in English and Hindi, and on the Notion of subject in South Asian Languages and numerous articles. He also holds numerous offices in professional organizations. Mr. T.N. Sharma is a well-known scholar and author of Nepali and has published numerous books and articles. He is further specializing in linguistics and is a candidate for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin.

Preface The materials in the two-volume set of Intermediate Nepali Structure and Intermediate Nepali Reader are designed to provide a comprehensive packet of instructional materials to students who have completed a first-year course in basic Nepali. The two volumes are intended to be used in conjunction with each other so that students can attain fluency in the reading and writing of the language and at the same time be aware of the pertinent grammatical constructions underlying what they read. In our experience most adult learners at this stage feel a need for some systematic discussion of the structural points involved in what they read and very often the explana-tions they get in the classroom are casual, spotty, and un-systematic. This set, thus, attempts to correct the situation. found in most intermediate-level instructional materials which rely basically on reading passages with minimal vocabulary and grammatical notes. Each lesson in the Structure is accom-panied by pattern drills and exercises for intensive practice, and each lesson in the Reader is accompanied by a glossary with the necessary structural and cultural explanations relevant to that lesson. In all these materials, Nepali words and constructions appear in the Devanagari alphabet. A comprehensive dictionary of the vocabulary used appears at the end of the Reader and is alphabetically arranged for easy look-up. To strengthen the usefulness of these volumes further, there are two sets of tapes, one to go with the lessons in the Structure volume and the other to go with the lessons in the Reader volume.

Introduction This volume is made up of 20 lessons and is part of a com-prehensive course in intermediate Nepali. The main purpose of this volvme is to explain and illustrate the basic structures of Nepali grammar. This is accomplished through lessons which include different tense forms, postpositions, conditionals, com-paratives, and other structural elements. The first lesson in this series is devoted specifically to guiding students in the writing and pronunciation of the Nepali language. The subsequent lessons are ordered in terms of increasing gram-matical complexity. Each lesson is accompanied by pattern drills and exercises for intensive practice both in and out of the classroom. An exhaustive illustration of all the forms of the verb 'khanu' (to eat) and 'hunu' (to be) is given as an appendix at the end of this volume. An extended set of pattern drills and exercises based on each lesson have been also put on tape for helping students gain proficiency in their use of the language. This set of tapes is labelled NE2-001 and can be obtained through the Labs for Recorded Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. There is a companion volume, the Intermediate Nepali Reader, which consists of a series of graded reading passages. It is recommended that this volume should be used along with the Reader for this volume explains the grammatical structures used in the Reader, while the Reader provides practice in the use of these forms.