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1. Bykova, E.M. 1981. The Bengali Language: Central Dept of Oriental Literature. Moscow: Nauka Publishing House.
The work traces the development of the Bangla language keeping in view the various phonological, morphological and syntactic aspects of the language.
2. Chatterji, S.K. 1926. Origin and Development of the Bengali language. Calcutta: University of Calcutta. 1970. Reprinted by George Allen and Unwin ltd. London. 1993. Edn. Calcutta: Rupa and Co.
The book deals with the historical study of phonology , morphology and syntax of the Bangla language, its development from Old Indo-Aryan and its linguistic relationship with other Indo-Aryan Languages.
3. Das, N. 1987. Bāngla bhāsār Vyakaran O tār kramavikāsh (in Bangla). Calcutta: Rabindrabharati University.
The book deals with the various grammatical phenomena and studies the Bangla language from the point of view of its origin and its various stages of development.
4. Klaiman, M. H. 1993. ‘Bengali’. In: Indo Aryan language. (ed) Masica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The article traces the Bangla linguistic identity and its genetic affiliation in the Indo-Aryan family.
1. Bhattacharya, Krishna, 1988. Bengali Phonetic Reader. Mysore: CIIL, Reprint 2000. The book describes the Bengali speech sounds from the articulatory point of view. The phonemes of Bengali and their graphic representation are also dealt with.
2. Chatterji, S.K. 1928. A Bengali Phonetic Reader. London: University of London.
The book seeks to represent the pronunciation of standard colloquial Bengali. It furnishes the description of the Bengali sounds and their formation. It also presents the sound attributes (length, stress, Intonation) of Bengali.
3. Ferguson, C.A. and Chowdhury, M. 1960. The Phonemes of Bengali. Language 36, 22-59.
Though the paper presents a summary of the phonological structure of standard colloquial Bengali, it also provides the phonetic values of the phonemes.
4. Kostic, D & Rhea S. Das, 1972. A short outline of Bengali Phonetics. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
The book contains general information about Bengali phonetics from the articulatory or acoustic side. It is based on mainly the findings of S.K. Chatterji, Ferguson & Choudhury and on the research and observations of the authors. The acoustic aspect of the speech sounds has been investigated by sound spectrographic analysis.
1. Bhattacharya Krishna. 1993. Bengali-Oriya Verb Morphology, Dasgupta & Co. Kolkata.
This book provides a detailed discussion of the phonologies and the verb morphologies, covering the primary and secondary types of verbs, of Bangla and Oriya in a descriptive fashion. Then it furnishes a comparative as well as constructive account of the phonologies and verb morphologies of these two cognate languages of eastern India, viz: Bangla and Oriya.
2. Dan, Mina 1992. Some Issues in Metrical Phonology of Bangla: the indigenous research tradition. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Poona, Pune.
This phonological study deals with (i) Bangla verb morphology in terms of the concrete model, a segmental approach under generative phonology, (ii) Bangla syllables in terms of metrical phonology, a current approach in the generative tradition that goes beyond the segmental level, and (iii) reports a similar metrical theorization of Bangla verse language which was initiated as far back as 1922 and developed till 1986 by Prabodh Chandra Sen and is available in the literary tradition of Bangla.
3. Dan, Mina. 1997. Syllabification in Bangla. Bulletin of the Department of Linguistics. Calcutta University. 13. 65-72.
On the basis of the findings about the canonical patterns of Bangla syllables and the treatment of consonant sequences of Bangla by different scholars this paper discusses the phonotactic restrictions of Bangla syllabification and the 10 basic rules of that.
4. Hai M.A.1964 dhoni biggæn o baŋla dhonitɔtto. Bengali Academi. Dacca.
The book is written in Bangla and it deals with Bangla phonetics and Bangla phonology.
5. Klaiman, M.H. Bengali. 1993. ‘Bengali’. In: Indo-Aryan Language (ed.) Masica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This paper provides an overall description of the Bangla language covering the historical and genetic setting, phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language in a brief manner.
6. Mallik, B.P., N. Bhattacharya, S.Kundu & M. Dawn (Dan). 1998. The Phonemic and Morphemic frequencies of the Bengali Language. The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
It is a computational study of a large body of quantitative corpus consisting of 107, 764 word tokens collected from the representative samples from two sources, viz. newspaper materials and juvenile literature. The book provides total 16 lists of frequency count of words, syllables, phonemes, consonantal clusters, graphemes, graphemic sequences, verb roots, prefixes, and suffixes of Bangla arranged either alphabetically or according to the descending order of frequency of occurrence of the items concerned.
7. Sarkar, P. dhonir ʃɔlɔkkhontɔtto o baʃlab bhaʃar dhoniʃɔmbhar. Proma. This paper focuses on different types of distinctive features, especially the Harvard features and the MIT features. Then it proposes a set of 15 distinctive features that applies to the Bangla phonemes.
8. Sarkar, P. 1979. Syllable-tɔtto o baŋla bhaʃar syllable-er gɔʈhon. Sengupta (ed.) Bibhab. 10. April-June. 33-55.
On the basis of a body of actual quantitative data and following a descriptive approach this paper studies the syllable structure and the phonotactic restrictions involved in syllabification of the Standard Colloquial Bangla of Kolkata. It also provides a list of 16 canonical patterns of Bangla syllables arranged according to their descending order of frequency of occurrence in the language.
9. Sarkar, P. 1985-86. baŋla diʃʃɔr dhoni. Bhasa. 4-5, 10-22.
On the basis of the principle ‘a diphthong must necessarily consist of one semivowel’ (of D. Jones, 1962) this paper establishes 17 falling diphthongs of Bangla, all of which have a semivowel as their 2nd member. This paper also claims the diphthongal construction, viz. the genitive forms.
10. Sarkar, P. 1986. Aspects of the Bengali syllables. Paper presented in the National Seminar on the Syllable in Phonetics and Phonology. Osmania University, Hyderabad. This paper is an improved version of Sarkar (1979).
11. Shaw, Dr. Rameswar. [1399]. ʃadharɔn bhaʃa biggæn o baŋla bhaʃa. Pustak Biponi. Kolkata.
This is an introductory book with two parts written in Bangla.
The 1st part deals with linguistics – its different developmental courses and its different components.
The 2nd part deals with the historical and descriptive accounts of the Bangla language.
1. Bhattacharya Krishna. 1993. Bengali-Oriya Verb Morphology, Dasgupta & Co. Kolkata.
This book provides a detailed discussion of the phonologies and the verb morphologies, covering the primary and secondary types of verbs, of Bangla and Oriya in a descriptive fashion. Then it furnishes a comparative as well as constructive account of the phonologies and verb morphologies of these two cognate languages of eastern India, viz. Bangla and Oriya.
2. Dan, Mina 1992. Some Issues in Metrical Phonology of Bangla: the indigenous research tradition. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University of Poona. Pune.
This phonological study deals with (i) Bangla verb morphology in terms of the concrete model, a segmental approach under generative phonology, (ii) Bangla syllables in terms of metrical phonology, a current approach in the generative tradition that goes beyond the segmental level, and (iii) reports a similar metrical theorization of Bangla verse language which was initiated as far back as 1922 and developed till 1986 by Prabodh Chandra Sen and is available in the literary tradition of Bangla.
3. Dasgupta, Probal. 1980. Questions and Relative and complement clauses in a Bangla Grammar. Unpublished Ph.D Dissertation. New York University. New York.
Apart from offering the method of generating 4 clause classes of Bangla, viz: Relative Clauses, Complement Clauses, Constituent Questions and Yes – No Questions, applying the tools of the lexicalist grammar of the generative tradition in chapters 5 to 11, this dissertation also builds up a skeletal overall Bangla grammar in its initial chapters, viz. chapters 2 to 4.
Chapters 2 to 4 give an idea of the phonology, morphology, phrase structures, infinitives and participle-gerunds of Bangla.
4. Dasgupta, Probal. 2003. Bangla. George Cardona & Dhanesh Jain (eds.) The Indo Aryan Language. London/New York. Routledge. 351-90.
This paper is a condensed report of as many possible relevant features of Bangla in six sections. Section 1, Generalities, provides the 1991 census figures and touches on different aspects, viz. historical, social, cultural, religious and political, Indic tongue through the discussions about its colonial and post-colonial identity, chronological stages, dialect variation, standardization problem, Diglossia, and Language Movement. Section 2, Phonology and scripts, deals with the vocoid and contoid segments, phonological processes like vowel harmony and prosodic patterns, symbols of the alpha-syllabic writing system of Bangla, orthography, and formulas bridging the gap between orthography and speech. Section 3, Morphology, accounts for the inflectional morphology of nouns, pronouns and verbs, derivational morphology, and compounds. Section 4, Lexis, discusses the segmental lexis of Bangla along several dimensions of segmentations. Section 5, Syntax, throws light on the various aspects of the basic constituent order of the clause, case phenomenon, in/definiteness phenomenon, and clause structure. The concluding section 6, Semantic and Pragmatic Effects, focuses on five types of constructions involving iterations, echo words, exclamations, parataxis, and relatives.
5. Klaiman, M.H. Bengali.
This paper provides an overall description of the Bangla language covering the historical and generic setting, phonology, morphology, and syntax of the language in a brief manner.
6. Radice, W.1994. Bengali.R.E.Asher (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Vol.1. Pergamon Press. Oxford, New York, Seoul, Tokyo. 328-9.
The article provides a brief sketch of the developmental phases of the Bangla language, the influence of Muslim rule on its vocabulary, the lexical eclecticism, the phonology, script, morphology, and syntax of the language; and its dialects. The introductory passage mentions the status of Bangla as the national language of Bangladesh and the state language of West Bengal in India and the number of Bangla-speakers worldwide.
1. Bhattacharya, T. 1999. Structure of the Bangla. DP. University College London. Ph.D. Dissertation.
This dissertation gives a detailed study of Bangla determiner Phrase (DP) consisting of a multi-layer structure of DP, DemP, QP, CIP and NP. It discusses the specificity effect inside the DP due to phrasal movement.
2. Chatterji, S.K 1926. The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language. Rupa & Co.
This is the first comprehensive document of Bangla done in structuralist framework consisting also a brief historical account of the language. It consists both phonology and morphology part of the language. It also describes the types of lexicon of Bangla coming from different sources.
3. Chatterji, S.K. 1939. Bhasha-prakash Bangala Vyakarana. Rupa & Co. 1995 edition.
This is a grammar of Bangla written in Bangla covering phonology, morphology and the lexicon. For sources of different Bangla words, their derivation and etymology, this book is particularly helpful.
4. Dasgupta, Probal. 1980. Question and relative and complement Clauses in Bangla grammar. New York: New York University Dissertation.
This is one major document of Bangla language done in generative framework. However, it concentrates on the question and relative clauses of Bangla. But as a first attempt to analyze Bangla syntax from transformational generative grammar view point, it discusses the basic phrase structure and transformation rules of the language. It has covered almost all the areas of syntax including infinitives and participle gerund, verbs and clause structure, complementizers, conjunctions, emphasizes, complement clauses etc. Besides it has a short description of Bangla phonology and morphology.
5. Dasgupta, Probal. 1984. ‘Bangla Emphasizers and Anchors.’ ILVol 45.
The emphatic particles such as /i/ and /o/ as well as some traditionally undefined words such as have been analyzed in this short paper.
6. Kelkar, Ashok R. 1997. Language in semiotic perspective: the architecture of a Marathi sentence. Subhada Saraswat, Pune.
This is one important document of modern Indian language, a gigantic work of syntax and pragmatics of Marathi. This is the document following which the accusative case marker of modern Indian languages had been called the objective case marker, because that is essentially a marker of indirect object of dative and under certain morphological and pragmatic conditions is used for the accusative also.
7. Tagore Rabindranath. 1909. BhaSatOtto. Visvabharati Publication. Kolkata.
Tagore’s work on linguistics is the first of its kind in the history of Bangla language. Though the observations done here are not analyzed by any formal tool because of unavailability of that, yet the observations themselves are of great significance for the study of Bangla. For Example, Tagore was the first who discovered the linguistic importance of Bangla classifier and not identified them as some kind of nirdesak ‘determiner’ but hinted towards a very important property of the classifiers which have been formally analyzed only recently by Ghosh (2002), that is the classifiers play a significant role in highlighting the elements with which it occurs. Some descriptive phonological observations of Tagore are also praiseworthy.
1. Dattamajumdar, S. 2001. ‘The Language of Advertising women’s garments in Calcutta proper - a sociolinguistic perspective.’ IJL. Vol. 20. 56-61.
The paper deals with the analysis of the language of the discourse of advertisement of women’s garments, available in the various print media circulated in the Calcutta (Kolkata) city.
2. Majumdar, A. 1998 a. ‘Tarasankar: Nāginī kanyār kāhinī.’ Tarasankar: des kal Sahitya. (ed.) Ujjal kumar Majumdar. 224 - 231.
The article is a discursive analysis of tarasankar Bandyopadhyay’s novel ‘Nāginī kanyār kāhinī,’ keeping in view the socio-cultural and sociolinguistic perspectives.
3. Majumdar, A. 1998 b. (B.S 1405) ‘Rabindranath: Lipikār Rājputtur.’ Lokasaṁaskriti Gavesanā Patrikā. Vol. 11.1. 91-113.
This paper analyses the language of the discourse of Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Rajputtur’ from the point of view of the use of register, grammatical structure, vocabulary items etc. It is a study from both the structuralist and post structuralist point of view.
Majumdar, A. 2002. ‘Jibananander ckti kabita: Saṅlagnatār Vyakarana’. Darpan (ed.) Bimal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 116-133.
The work studies the discourse of Jibanananda Das’s poem and traces the use of grammatical structures, use of vocabulary items, etc in establishing the cohesiveness throughout the poem.
4. Mukhopadhyay. S. 2002 Bānglā bhāsā O Sāhityer pratnatatva. Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation Kalyani University.
The thesis is concerned with the establishment of a critique of the history of the Bangla language and literature keeping in view the politico semantic perspective.
1. Chandra Sekhar, A. 1977. Census of India 1971, Part II – C (ii) Social and Cultural Tables. New Delhi: Government of India.
The book takes in to account the census report of 1971 which deals with the data on Indian population by state, by language, etc It also deals with the Social and cultural situations of the languages.
2. Mallick, B.P. 1993. Aparādh Jagater Bhāahā O Sabdakosa. kolkata: Deys Publishing. The book deals with the language of Crime and of the underworld people. The use of various codes and abbreviated forms at various underworld situations have been discussed in detail.
3. Sarkar, P. 1985. Gadyariti Padyariti (A collection of essays on Bengali prose and poetic styles). Kolkata: Sahityalok.
The work is a study on the theories of stylistics with special reference to the style of the Bangla prose and poem.
4. Vijayanunni, M. 1997. Census of India 1991. Series 1 – India. Language. New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
The book takes in to account the census report of 1991 which deals with all possible data on Indian population by state, by language, etc.
5. 1989. The written languages of the world. A survey of the degree and modes of use. Vol. 2. India. Book-1. Constitutional Languages. Registrar General and census commissioner. New Delhi: Office of the Registrar General, India.
The volume takes into consideration the social, political, linguistic and cultural data of the written constitutional languages. It also takes into account the use of a language by population and state.
1. David Diringer, The Alphabet – A key to the History of Mankind 1996 edn. New Delhi, 1996, pp. 338 –365 ISBN 81 – 215 – 0748 – 0.
In the first part of the book a historical sketch of the development of non-alphabetic scripts has been discussed. The second part of the book deals with the origin and development of alphabetic scripts like South Semantic Alphabetic, Canaanite, Aramatic, Non-Semetic off-shoots of Aramatic, Indian Scripts, Greek alphabet and its off-shoots, Etruscan and Italic Alphabets and the Latin Alphabet.
2. S.N. Chakravarti, Development of the Bengali Alphabet from the Fifth century A.D. to the End of Muhammadan Rule. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. IV, 1938, PP 351- 391.
In the seventh century A.D. out of the North Indian characters two branches emanated – eastern and western, the latter developing in to Siddnamātrikā. The eastern variety led to the development of Proto-Bengali though successive stages.
3. R. D. Banerji. The Origin of the Bengali Script Calcutta. 1919, Reprint, 1973. Nababharat Calcutta.
Traces the origin of the Bengali Script from written materials of eastern India datable to the Pre-Christian period. In this book characteristic of the eastern variety of North Indian script during the rule of the Imperial Guptas have been discussed in detail and the gradual evolution of Proto-Bengali and Bengali Scripts has been outlined with the help of available epigraph and manuscripts.
4. A.H. Dani, Indian Paleography, First published in 1963. 1997 Edition, New Delhi, ISBN 81-215 - 0028 -1.
This book deals with the characteristic of the Indus Script and those of the Brahmi Script up to the fourth century A.D. Development of proto-regional scripts like those of the Middle Ganga Valley, Eastern India, Mathura and the North-Western region, Rajasthan and Central India. Gujarat and Kathiawar, and of the Deccan has been traced upto the end of eight century A.D.
5. A.K. Bhattacharya. A Corpus of Dedicatory Inscriptions from Temples of West Bengal, Calcutta, 1982. Havana.
In this book the author traces the development of Bengali letters found in the temple inscriptions of medieval Bengal.
6. Amitabha Battacharyya, Some aspects of the Development of Bengali script, Journal of Ancient Indian History, Calcutta. 101 XIX, PP, 97-110.
The author traces the development of Bengali script up to the ninetieth century pointing out its principal characteristics through centuries as revealed in written documents.
7. Bhattacharya, Krishna, 1988. Bengali Phonetic Reader. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian languages.
The book comprises of the description of the Bangla speech sounds, writing systems, Phonetic drills, etc. The phonemic graphemic fit of the Bangla language has been dealt with in detail in the fourth chapter – ‘Phonemes of Bengali and their graphemic Representation.’
8. Ray, P.S. and Hai, M.A. and Ray, L. 1996 Bengali language hand book. Washington D.C: Center for Applied Linguistics. The book provides an outline of the salient features of the Bangla language – its social and historical setting, its linguistic structure, its writing system, etc. The Bangla orthography has been dealt with in detail in chapter III.
1. Banerjee, J.P. 1985. Education in India - Past, Present and Future. Vol. 1. Calcutta: Central Library.
The book deals with the history of India along with the development in the field of education, starting from the traditional Indian school system to the education systems of post Independence period.
2. Chatterji. S.K. 1926. Origin and Development of the Bengali Language. Calcutta: University of Calcutta. 1970. Reprinted by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. London. 1993 edn. Calcutta: Rupa & Co.
The book deals with the historical study of phonology, morphology and syntax of the Bangla language – its development from old Indo Aryan and its linguistic relationship with other Indo Aryan languages.
3. Sarkar, P. 1985. Bhāshā desh kāl: A collection of sociolinguistic essays. Kolkata: G.A.E.Publishers.
The book studies some theoretical issues on language and society with special reference to the Bangla language.
4. Sarkar P. 2003 Bhāshā Prem Bhāshā birodh Kolkata : Dey’s Publishing
The work essentially brings into light the sociopolitical setup of the Bangla language particularly in India, West Bengal and in Bangladesh.
5. Vijayanunni, M. 1997. Census of India. 1991. Series 1-India. Language New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India
The book takes into account the census report of 1991 which deals with various data on Indian population by state, by language, etc.
1. Banerjee, J.P. 1985. Education in India - Past, Present and Future. Vol. 1. Calcutta: Central Library.
The book deals with the history of India along with the development in the field of education, starting from the traditional Indian school system to the education system of post independence period.
2. Vijayanunni, M. 1997. Census of India. 1991. Series-1 India Language. New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
The book takes into account the census report of 1991 which deals with all possible data on Indian population by state, by Language, etc.
1. Banerjee, J.P 1985 Education in India – Past, Present and Future. Vol. 1 Calcutta: Central Library.
The book deals with the history of Indian along with the development in the field of education, starting from the traditional Indian school system to the education system of past independence period.
2. Diringer, David. 1968. The Alphabet- A key to the history of Mankind. New York: Funk and Wagnalls. Third edn.
In the first part of the book a historical sketch of the development of non-alphabetic script has been discussed. The second part of the book deals with the origin and development of alphabetic script like South Semetic alphabet, Canaanite, Aramaic, Non-Semetic off-shoots of Aramaic, Indian scripts, Greek alphabet and its off shoots, Etruscan, Italic alphabets and the Latin Alphabet.
3. Jayaram, B.D. and Rajyashree, K.S. 2000. State Official Language Policy Implementation: A geolinguistic profile in sociolinguistic perspective Mysore: CIIL.
The work takes in to account the status and the use of the state languages as official language with reference to their Socio-Political background of India.
4. Musa, M. 1984. Bhāshā Parikapanā O anyānya prabandha. Dacca: Muktadhara.
The book discusses on the language planning aspect with special reference to the Bangla language.
5. 1986. Pasanga bānglā bhāshā. Kolkata: Paschim Bangla Bangla Academy.
The book takes into account discussions on the development of the Bangla language with special emphasis on the Bangla script and spelling reformation aspect.
6. Sarkar, P 1985. Bhāshā desh kāl (A collection of sociolinguistic essays). Kolkata: G.A.E. Publishers.
The book studies some theoretical issues on language and society with special references to the Bangla language.
7. Sarkar, P. 1985. Gadyariti Padyariti (A collection of essays on Bangali prose and poetic styles). Kolkata: Sahityalok.
The work is a study on the theories of stylistics with special references to the style of the Bangla prose and poem.
8. Sarkar, P. 2003. Bhāshā Prem Bhāā birodh. Kolkata, Dey’s publishing.
The work brings into light the socio-political setup of the Bangla language particularly in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh.
Bhattacharya, T. 1999. Structure of the Bangla DP. University College London Ph.D. Dissertation.
This dissertation gives a detailed study of Bangla Determiner Phrase (DP) consisting of a multi-layer structure of DP, DemP, QP, ClP and NP. It discusses the specificity effect inside the DP due to phrasal movement.
Chatterji, S.K. 1926. The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language Rupa & Co.
This is the first comprehensive document of Bangla done in structuralist framework consisting also a brief historical account of the language. It consists both phonology and morphology of the language. It also describes the types of lexicon of Bangla coming from different sources. Chatterjee, S.K. 1939. Bhasha-prakash Bangala Vyakarana. Rupa & Co., 1995 Edition.
This is a grammar of Bangla written in Bangla cvering phonology, morphology and the lexicon. For sources of different Bangla words, their derivation and etymology, this book is particularly helpful.
Dasgupta, Probal. 1980. Question and Relative and Complement Clauses in Bangla grammar. New York: New York University Dissertation.
This is one major document of Bangla language done in generative framework. Though it concentrates on the question and relative clauses of Bangla but as a first attempt to analyze Bangla syntax from transformational generative grammar viewpoint, it also discusses the basic phrase structure and transformation rules of the language. It has covered almost all the areas of syntax including infinitives and participle gerund, verbs and clause structure, complementizers, conjunctions, emphasizers, complement clauses etc. Besides it has a short description of Bangla phonology and morphology.
Dasgupta, Probal. 1984. 'Bangla Emphasizers and Anchors.' IL Vol 45
The emphatic particles such as /i/ and /o/ as well as some traditionally undefined words such as have been analyzed in this short paper.
Kelkar, Ashok R. 1997. Language in semiotic perspective: the architecture of a Marathi sentence. Subhada Saraswat, Pune.
This is one important document of modern Indian language, a gigantic work of syntax and pragmatics of Marathi. This is the document following which the accusative case marker of modern Indian languages had been called the objective case marker, because that is essentially a marker of indirect object of dative and under certain morphological and pragmatic conditions is used for the accusative also.
Tagore Rabindranath. 1909. BhaSatOtto. Visvabharati publication, Kolkata.
Tagore’s work on linguistics is a first of its kind in the history of Bangla language. Though the observations done here are not analyzed any formal tool because of unavailability of that, yet the observations themselves are of great significance for the study of Bangla. For example, Tagore was the first who discovered the linguistic importance of Bangla classifier and not identified them as some kind of nirdesak ‘determiner’ but hinted towards a very important property of the classifiers which have been formally analyzed only recently by Ghosh (2002) that is the classifiers play a significant role in highlighting the elements with which it occurs. Some descriptive phonological observations of Tagore are also praiseworthy.
1. Banerjee, J.P.1985. Education in India - Past, Present and Future. Vol.1. Calcutta: Central Library.
The book deals with the history of India along with the development in the field of education, starting from the traditional Indian school system to the education system of past independence period.
2. Chandra Sekhar, A. 1977. Census of India 1971, part II – C (ii) Social and Cultural Tables. New Delhi: Government of India.
The book takes into account the census report of 1971 which deals with the data on Indian population by state, by language, etc. It also deals with the social and cultural situations of the language.
3. Directory of Periodicals. Published in India 2000. Sapra and Sapra Publishers, Distributors Pvt. Ltd.
This is a directly which deals with various records of published journals newspapers, periodicals, etc. in the India context.
4. India 2002 – A reference Annual. Publication Division: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting: Government of India.
This annual publication records various informations regarding mass media in the Indian context.
5. 1989. The written languages of the world, a survey of the degree and modes of use- Vol. 2. India. Book –1. Constitutional languages. Registrar General and Census commissioner. New Delhi: Office of the Registrar General, India.
The volume takes into consideration the social, political, linguistic and cultural data of the written constitutional languages. It also takes into account the use of a language by population and state.
6. Jayaram. B.D. and Rajyashree. K.S. 2000. State official language Policy Implementation: A geolinguistic Profile in sociolinguistic Perspective Mysore: CIIL.
The work takes into account the status and the use of the state language as official language with reference to their socio-political background of India.
1. Basu Dutta.S. 2000. Bānglāy Meyeder Bhāshā. (A Critical book in Bengali). Kolkata: Prama.
The book takes into consideration a detail study of gender variation in the Bangla language. By tracing the Socio-culture, Socio-economic and Psycho-social setup of the speech community the gender variation has been justified with elaborate examples.
2. Chatterji. S.K. 2003 Bānglār Saṁaskriti. (A collection of essays on Bengali culture). First published in 1990. Kolkata: Paschim Bangla Bangla Academy.
The book deals with the Bangla speech community, its culture and literature, food habits, handicrafts, rituals, religion, etc. the geographical location along with the history of the community has been traced. The nature and behavior pattern and the social structure, livelihood has been also taken into account.
3. Das, N. 1970. ‘Uttarbanger nārīr bhāshā. ‘Uttar banger bhāshā prasango. Kolkata: Oriental Book Company.
The work studies the characteristic pattern of women speech in the dialect of north Bengal. The various grammatical phenomena, vocabulary items, other linguistic structures that are prevalent in the dialect of women of the area has been dealt with significance.
4. Sen. S.K 1979. ‘Women’s Dialect in Bengali.’ Jijnasa. Kolkata.
The study is on the women dialect of Bangla That has been carried out in the Burdwan Presidency area. The various aspects of language variation and usage which are specific to women’s speech of the area has been dealt with.
5. Personal communication with Dr. Sibir Das of Anthropological survey of India, Kolkata helped to understand the cultural anthropology with special reference to the Bangla language.
6. Basu Dutta.S. 2000. Bānglāy Meyeder Bhāshā. (A Critical book in Bengali). Kolkata: Prama.
The book takes into consideration a detail study of gender variation in the Bangla language. By tracing the Socio-culture, Socio-economic and Psycho-social setup of the speech community the gender variation has been justified with elaborate examples.
7. Chatterji. S.K. 2003 Bānglār Saṁaskriti. (A collection of essays on Bengali culture). First published in 1990. Kolkata: Paschim Bangla Bangla Academy.
The book deals with the Bangla speech community, its culture and literature, food habits, handicrafts, rituals, religion, etc. the geographical location along with the history of the community has been traced. The nature and behavior pattern and the social structure, livelihood has been also taken into account.
8. Das, N. 1970. ‘Uttarbanger nārīr bhāshā. ‘Uttar banger bhasha prasango. Kolkata: Oriental Book Company.
The work studies the characteristic pattern of women speech in the dialect of north Bengal. The various grammatical phenomena, vocabulary items, other linguistic structures that are prevalent in the dialect of women of the area has been dealt with significance.
9. Sen. S.K 1979. ‘Women’s Dialect in Bengali.’ Jijnasa. Kolkata.
The study is on the women dialect of Bangla That has been carried out in the Burdwan Presidency area. The various aspects of language variation and usage which are specific to women’s speech of the area has been dealt with.
10. Personal communication with Dr. Sibir Das of Anthropological survey of India, Kolkata helped to understand the cultural anthropology with special reference to the Bangla language.
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