05.Intermediate Bengali.pdf

Intermediate

Bangla

(Bengali)

bAMlA

Clinton B. Seely

First published, 1985 (1392 baÆAÂ)

First LINCOM edition, 2002 (1409 baÆAÂ)

First Acrobat ® -formatted PDF digital edition, 2006 (1413 baÆAÂ)

©Clinton B. Seely

Intermediate Bangla

Foreword

I nter mediat e B angla is aimed at native English-speaking students of the

Bangla language who have completed A n I ntr oduction to B engali: P ar t I , by

Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Somdev Bhattacharji, and Suhas Chatterjee (2nd printing; New

Delhi: Manohar, 1976) and A n I ntr oduction to B engali: P ar t I I , by Somdev

Bhattacharji (reprinted; Chicago, 1988). I take for granted that the material presented in

those two books has been learned already. An alternative to the two introductory

volumes is B engali: A C omplete C our s e for B eginner s ( T each Y our s elf

B ooks ) , by William Radice (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994).

I nter mediat e B angla could be used profitably during the second year of

language study in conjunction with A B engali P r os e R eader ( for Second- Y ear

Students ) , by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Somdev Bhattacharji (reprinted, Chicago,

1988). In the third year, most students would do well to read diverse selections of

Bangla writing such as those presented in parts two and three of A n A dvanced C our s e

in B engali , by Ernest Bender and Theodore Riccardi, Jr. (Philadelphia: South Asia

Regional Studies; University of Pennsylvania, 1978). Knowledge of the grammar

covered in I nter mediate B angla will enhance the student's comprehension of those

readings and should increase his/her reading speed. I drew heavily upon material in A n

A dvanced C our s e in B engali for examples of the grammatical points covered in

I nter mediat e B angla. Both second- and third-year students would benefit immensely

from B engali R efer ence Gr am mar , by W.L. Smith (Stockholm: Association of

Oriental Studies, 1997).

Each of the twenty lessons in I nter mediate B angla is divided into four

sections: a short selection of Bangla; two grammar sections; and useful information in or

about the language. Lesson 1 is an exception to that pattern; it has been designed

primarily as a review of features of the written language, including spelling and

punctuation, and of pronunciation of spoken Bangla. In all the lessons, I have tried to

give illustrative phrases or sentences for grammar points drawn from published Bangla

texts. The reader will notice a number of quotations are attributed to "Anon." Long

before I began writing this book, I had been gathering material to use in my Bangla

courses. I did not always note the author of those passages as I was making my

collections for class. Consequently, when I came to cite them in this book, I found

myself unable to provide with certainly the author's name for many of those passages,

and thus I attribute them to "Anon." There is one writer whose work I have cited often

and to whom I would like to give explicit credit and special thanks. Ketaki Kushari

Dyson, accomplished author in both English and Bangla, provided me with numerous and

wonderful specimens of the language, through her much acclaimed play rAetr frod

(Kolkata: Dey's, 1997).

The preparation of I nter mediate B angla was originally made possible many

years ago by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. I want to thank Professors

Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Anisuzzaman, Probal Dasgupta, and Ernest Bender, as well as

Professor Bender's then teaching assistant, Professor Sagoree Sengupta, for reading the

first incarnation of this book and offering emendations and advice, some of which I have

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incorporated into this revised edition. More recently, Professors Tista Bagchi and Mithi

Mukherjee, and also Debali Mookerjea, Rochona Majumdar, and Edward Yazijian, all of

whom at one time served as my teaching assistant, have proofread most of the

manuscript, for which I am grateful. Since the book is stored on magnetic computer

disks, I can easily continue to revise the text from time to time and would appreciate

hearing from anyone who has suggestions or corrections. I can be contacted at:

The University of Chicago

Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

c-seely@uchicago.edu

Intermediate Bangla

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

. . . . . iii

BANGLA-ROMAN ALPHABET TRANSLITERATION TABLE

. . . . . x

LESSON 1

. . . . . 1

I. Types of Bangla

II. Spelling

III. Punctuation

IV. Pronunciation

I. ÉithAs (1): kalakAtA [History (1): Kolkata]

II. Indefinite, Interrogative, and Correlative Pronouns:

1st-, 2nd-, and Honorific 3rd-persons

III. jaenÄ/janÄa, haey, pae• "for"

IV. Months, Seasons, & Annual Holidays

. . . . . 28

LESSON 3

I. ÉithAs (2): òAkA [History (2): Dhaka]

II. Indefinites

A) reduplication of

B) with nA between reduplication

C) with Çr

D) with fY/YA

III. bael

A) PAP

B) conjunction "that"

C) postposition "as, called"

D) conjunction "because"

IV. Calendric Systems

. . . . . 40

LESSON 4

I. saMabAd [News]

II. Correlatives

III. fYna, YAet, pAeC

A) to express purpose

B) to express emphasis in commands

C) to express desire

D) to express similarity

E) to express vagueness

IV. Dates of the Month

. . . . . 54

LESSON 2

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