Sinhala

Sinhala; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword ; Preface; Romanization and text presentation; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Genealogy and geography; 2. Typological character of the language; 2.1 Structure of simple clauses; 2.2 Nominal modifiers; 2.3 Verbal modifiers; 2.4 Compound and complex sentences; 2.5 Some additional remarks on the structure of the language; Writing system; Sounds; 1. Vowels; 2. Consonants; 3. Consonant clusters; 4. Phonological rules; 4.1. Vowel length; 4.2 Nasal assimilation; 4.3 Other assimilations; 4.4 Velarizing; 4.5 Substituting 5. Suprasegmental features5.1. Syllables; 5.2 Stress; 5.3 Pitch; 6. Rhyming expressions; Words; 1. Vocabulary strata; 2. Word classes; 2.1 Nouns; 2.2 Adjectives; 2.3 Verbs; 3. Minor word classes; 3.1. Adverbs; 3.2 Particles; 3.3 Affixes; 3.4 Interjections; 4. Some noteworthy word classes; 4.1. Numerals; 4.2 Kinship terms; Morphology; 1. Verb morphology; 1.1 Inflectional morphology; 1.1.1 Finite forms; 1.1.2 Non-finite forms; 1.2 Derivational morphology; 2. Noun morphology; 2.1 Nominal inflections; 2.2 Nominal derivations and word formation; 2.2.1 Affixation; 2.2.2 Compounding 2.2.3 Reduplication3. Sandhi; Morphology-syntax interface; Argument structures; 1. Argument structure types; 1.1 Argument structures with inactive predicates; 1.2 Argument types with active predicates; 2. Adjunct noun phrases; 3. Grammatical relations; Noun phrase and verb phrase constructions; 1. Noun phrase; 1.1 Simple noun modifiers; 1.2 Clausal noun modifiers; 2. Verb phrase; 2.1 Declarative, interrogative, and negative; 2.2 Reciprocal verbs and reflexive verbs; 2.3 Modality, aspect, and tense; 2.3.1 Expressions for modality; 2.3.2 Expressions for aspect and tense; 2.3.2.1 Tense 2.3.2.2 AspectGrammatical constructions; 1. Passive construction; 2. Causative construction; 2.1 Lexical causatives; 2.2 Morphological causatives; 2.3 Periphrastic causatives; 2.3.1 Causative benefactive construction; 2.3.2 Simple benefactive construction; 2.3.3 Indirect causative construction; Expanded sentences; 1. Compound sentences; 2. Complex sentences; 2.1 Nominal clauses; 2.2 Adnominal clauses; 2.3 Adverbial clauses; 3. Mixed sentences; Sentence and information structure; 1. The topic-comment organization; 2. The focus structure; Discourse and grammar 1. Deictic system of demonstratives2. The deictic parameter; 3. Functions of deictic expressions; 3.1 Identifying function; 3.2 Acknowledging function; 3.3 Informing function; 3.4 Expressive function; 4. Locative expressions; 5. Demonstratives as discourse deictic; 5.1. Anaphoric use; 5.2 Other uses of discourse deixis; 5.3 Cataphoric use; 6. Encoding discourse units; 7. Tracking the thematic flow of discourse; Pragmatics and grammar; 1. Modality; 1.1 Imperative mood; 1.2 Permissive mood; 1.3 Offer; 1.4 Optative mood; 1.5 Epistemic modality; 2. Interrogation; 3. Negation