This volume brings together some of the most significant contemporary Indian contributions to the study of language. Together, these essays demonstrate that Indian linguists have not only quietly continued their work but have also influenced a great deal of western thinking. The essays range from discussing minute details of phonotactic constraints to large-scale questions of language and justice. Topics covered include: bi-space and multi-lingualism; mother tongue education; the societal roots of language; and the politics and ideology of language development.
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`Singh's collection provokes healthy reconsiderations of the paradigms used by those whose work touches language in South Asia' - Contemporary South Asia
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978-0-8039-9376-1 (9780803993761)
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Introduction - Rajendra Singh
PART ONE: GRAMMAR: PHONOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
The Theory of Lexical Phonology - K P Mohanan
Well-formedness Conditions and Phonological Theory - Rajendra Singh
Intermorphology and Morphological Theory - Rajendra Singh and G Martohardjono
Grammatical Relations and Clause Structure in Malayalam - K P Mohanan
PART TWO: GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE
The External Reality of Linguistic Descriptions - Probal Dasgupta
LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY: CHANGE, VARIATION, JUSTICE AND APPLICATIONS
Areal and Lexical Diffusion of Sound Change - Bh Krishnamurti
Evidence from Dravidian
Bilingualism and Syntactic Change in Konkani - Mangesh V Nadkarni
Remarks on the Measurement of Bilingualism - P B Pandit
Indian Bilingualism - R N Srivastava
Myth and Reality
Communication in a Multilingual Society - Rajendra Singh, Jayant K Lele and G Martohardjono
Some Missed Opportunities
Mother Tongue Education and Destiny - D P Pattanayak
Language Ideology and Language Development - L Khubchandani
The Being of a Poem - Ashok R Kelkar
The Socio-Psychological Perspective on Second Language Learning - R K Agnihotri and A L Khanna
A Critique
Acquisition through Comprehension - N S Prabhu
Three Procedures
