Издательство: TRUBNER & CO
Год: 1908
Количество страниц: 264
I offer no apology for adding one more to the list of Urdu Grammars, for, if the book itself
does not justify its publication, no excuse will avail me. Urdu or Hindustani Grammar has been developed and reduced to a system by Englishmen, or under their supervision. From Gilchrist to
Shakespear, and from Shakespear to Yates, Aot, and Forbes, each new Grammar has thrown
new light upon the language, and has lightened the labour of leaing it. Excellent as is the
Grammar of Forbes, both teachers and leaers have long since discovered its deficiencies. The
Grammar of Professor Monier Williams made a great step in advance ; and the author of this
book fully admits his obligations to it, for the help it has given him as a teacher, and for the
assistance it has afforded in the preparation of this work. But Professor Williams's Grammar
is printed entirely in the Roman character, and so is unfitted for the use of young officials who
have to read and write the language In the character which the natives themselves employ.
In this work I have availed myself of the labours of my predecessors, and I fully recognize
my obligations; but with their rules I have embodied the results of my own study and
observation. In a few instances I have ventured to differ from those who have gone before me,
but more has been done in the way of addition and classification, and in the drawing of distinctions. Many things have been noticed which hitherto have been passed over unperceived, or as being, perhaps, as Forbes says, " plain and self-evident." I have not allowed this last consideration to weigh with me ; what is "plain and self-evident " to one student may not be so to another; and it is hardly competent for one who knows the language to determine what points are so clear and manifest that no student will ever require to be told them. It may be impossible to produce a perfect Grammar ; but the smallest matters should be included in it, as well as the greatest.
Год: 1908
Количество страниц: 264
I offer no apology for adding one more to the list of Urdu Grammars, for, if the book itself
does not justify its publication, no excuse will avail me. Urdu or Hindustani Grammar has been developed and reduced to a system by Englishmen, or under their supervision. From Gilchrist to
Shakespear, and from Shakespear to Yates, Aot, and Forbes, each new Grammar has thrown
new light upon the language, and has lightened the labour of leaing it. Excellent as is the
Grammar of Forbes, both teachers and leaers have long since discovered its deficiencies. The
Grammar of Professor Monier Williams made a great step in advance ; and the author of this
book fully admits his obligations to it, for the help it has given him as a teacher, and for the
assistance it has afforded in the preparation of this work. But Professor Williams's Grammar
is printed entirely in the Roman character, and so is unfitted for the use of young officials who
have to read and write the language In the character which the natives themselves employ.
In this work I have availed myself of the labours of my predecessors, and I fully recognize
my obligations; but with their rules I have embodied the results of my own study and
observation. In a few instances I have ventured to differ from those who have gone before me,
but more has been done in the way of addition and classification, and in the drawing of distinctions. Many things have been noticed which hitherto have been passed over unperceived, or as being, perhaps, as Forbes says, " plain and self-evident." I have not allowed this last consideration to weigh with me ; what is "plain and self-evident " to one student may not be so to another; and it is hardly competent for one who knows the language to determine what points are so clear and manifest that no student will ever require to be told them. It may be impossible to produce a perfect Grammar ; but the smallest matters should be included in it, as well as the greatest.