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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Bright |
ISBN: | 0195063651 9780195063653 |
OCLC Number: | 21196637 |
Description: | xiv, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Linguistic change in some Indian caste dialects -- Sociolinguistic variation and language change with A.K. Ramanujan -- Dravidian metaphony -- Language, social stratification, and cognitive orientation -- Complex verb forms in colloquial Tamil with J. Lindenfeld -- Phonological rules in literary and colloquial Kannada -- Hindi numerals -- The Dravidian enunciative vowel -- How not to decipher the Indus Valley inscriptions -- Archaeology, linguistics, and ancient Dravidian -- Written and spoken language in South Asia. |
Responsibility: | William Bright. |
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`The range of Bright's interests with regard to South Asian languages is well illustrated in the book.` `In reading over these papers one is struck by several qualities of Bright's writing. One of these is the meticulousness of Bright's descriptive studies of Dravidian linguistic systems.` `...this book serves a desirable function in gathering together those of Bright's papers that detail his thinking on the role of variation within the South Asian linguistic landscape.` `The work will be of particular interest to Dravidianists, as well as to students of other South Asian language families whose research has an areal dimension or incorporates facets of socially conditioned variation.` Journal of the American Oriental Society `for beginners in South Asian linguistics and sociolinguistics, this collection has great historical value, since it contains the origins of ideas now considered standard and descriptions used as reference points in both of these fields'Language `The range of Bright's interests with regard to South Asian languages is well illustrated in the book ... In reading over these papers one is struck by several qualities of Bright's writing. One of these is the meticulousness of Bright's descriptive studies of Dravidian linguistic systems.'Journal of the American Oriental Society Read more...


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- Dravidian languages -- Variation.
- South Asia -- Languages -- Variation.
- Diglossia (Linguistics)
- Diglossie.
- Langues dravidiennes -- Variation.
- Asie méridionale -- Langues -- Variation.
- Sprache
- Sprachvariante
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Südasien
- Drawidische Sprachen.
- Language and languages -- Variation.
- South Asia.
- Indic languages
- South Asia