Svetislav Kostić: A Syntagmaticon of Hindī Verbo-Nominal Syntagmas A Collection of Structured Verb-Noun Phrases.
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, 2014, 388 pp. ISBN-13:978-3-659-42665-0, ISBN-10: 3659426652, EAN: 9783659426650
The publication is an expanded and revised edition of the book published in 2009 by the Karolinum Press in Prague.
The book deals with a special syntactic and semantic phenomenon in Hindī, namely the constructions consisting of nominal and verbal constituents. Depending on the relations between them, some other words, e.g. postpositions, adverbs etc., can also be involved as components of the constructions. Their mutual relations correspond either to the object-predicate phrase, or such phrase may form a semantic, i. e. onomasiologic unit, which describes an action and is either the only name of the action, or a synonym of the simple verb denoting the same action. The syntagmaticon lists the most frequent syntagmas, classified alphabetically according to the nominal components, which form a kind of phrase book. It contains nearly eighteen hundred nouns and about five hundred verbs. The syntagmaticon comprizes not only simple object-predicate-related constructions and onomasiologic units, but also many idiomatic expressions.
It can serve as a practical manual of Hindī phraseology.
First part of the book contains a comprehensive study on morpho-syntactic and semantic properties of the syntagmas, whereas the second part presents the very syntagmaticon, in which the structure of every phrase or syntagma is displayed schematically, so that each its component occupies its proper syntagmatic and paradigmatic slot.