Author(s): Christopher Shackle
Publisher: The English Universities Press
Year: 1972
Language: English
Pages: 223
City: London
Introduction
Pronunciation
Lesson 1: pronouns, present auxiliary, questions, word order, articles
Lesson 2: past auxiliary, negative sentences, 'yes' and 'no', order of adverbs
Lesson 3: gender, 'black' and 'red' adjectives, questions
Lesson 4: plural of nouns and adjectives, indefinite article
Lesson 5: Verb roots, present participle, present tense, use of /twsiŋ/ to women
Lesson 6: imperfect, negative of present and imperfect, postpositions
Lesson 7: oblique singular, /kéɽa/
Lesson 8: oblique plural, /sək-/
Lesson 9: 'black' adjectives in /-aŋ/, present continuous, /nuŋ/, word-order
Lesson 10: past continuous, /da/, expressions of time
Lesson 11: /toŋ/, use of /de/ with postpositions, comparative and superlative, /bəɽa/, /sə́b/ and /sara/
Lesson 12: future, verbs in double consonants, adverbs of time, /apɳa/, /koi/ and /kẃj/
Lesson 13: /ho-/, 'to have', /koi/ and /kẃj/ as adjectives, adjectives as nouns
Lesson 14: imperatives, vocative, direct object with /nuŋ/, /kərke/
Lesson 15: past participle, past tense of intransitive verbs, use of /toŋ/ with postpositions, /lokiŋ/, /hor/ and /duja/
Lesson 16: perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, infinitive, verbs with /nuŋ/, /təràŋ/
Lesson 17: past tenses of transitive verbs, agent case, necessity, ablative singular, postpositions in /-oŋ/, /vi/ and /hi/
Lesson 18: oblique infinitive, /ap/, /koɭ/ and /koɭoŋ/, /of/, dates, /vari/
Lesson 19: conjunctive participle, verbal agent, /vaɭa/, /jýa/, fractional numbers
Lesson 20: cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, indirect speech, relative pronouns
Lesson 21: participles with /hoya/, passive, intransitive and transitive pairs, causal verbs
Lesson 22: compound verbs, intensive compounds with /ja-/, /de-/ and /ləy-/, locative, emphatic demonstratives, emphatic auxiliary
Lesson 23: present subjunctive, 'if' and 'although', habitual action, uses of /ləg(g)-/, plural of respect
Lesson 24: past subjunctive, present participle passive, present in /-na/, adverbial participles, repetition of words, formation of feminines from masculines
Lesson 25: varieties of Punjabi, dialects, written and spoken Punjabi, Sikh and Muslim Punjabi
Lesson 26: the Gurmukhi script
Grammatical tables
Key to exercises
Punjabi-English Vocabulary
English-Punjabi Vocabulary
