Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, has received little attention in the linguistic literature, and no other comprehensive grammar of the standard language has yet been published. This work describes the phonology, unique orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard Dhiveh…
Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 About this Grammar -- 1.1 Scope of this book -- 1.2 Sources -- 1.3 Interpreting examples -- 1.4 Corpus source codes -- 1.5 Symbols and abbreviations -- 1.6 A preview of this grammar -- 2 The Dhivehi Language -- 2.1 …
"Dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, su…
Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, has received little attention in the linguistic literature, and no other comprehensive grammar of the standard language has yet been published.This work describes the phonology, unique orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard Dhivehi…