Language Variation in South Asia
1st Edition
Published in December 1990
186 pages
978-0-19-536249-7 (ISBN)
Description
South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian language cover a broad range of topics in South Asian linguistics. The essays address social dialect, structural borrowing, areal linguistics, the relation between literary and colloquial standards, and the role of written language in South Asian culture from the times of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Offering a sociolinguistic approach, and encompassing both descriptive and historical studies, this collection of twelve of Bright's most important essays reflects his extensive research on the linguistics of South Asia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
8,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-536249-7 (9780195362497)
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Language Variation in South Asia
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Linguistic Change in Some Indian Caste Dialects
- 2. Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change with A. K. Ramanujan
- 3. Dravidian Metaphony
- 4. Language, Social Stratification, and Cognitive Orientation
- 5. Complex Verb Forms in Colloquial Tamil with J. Lindenfeld
- 6. Phonological Rules in Literary and Colloquial Kannada
- 7. Hindi Numerals
- 8. The Dravidian Enunciative Vowel
- 9. How Not to Decipher the Indus Valley Inscriptions
- 10. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ancient Dravidian
- 11. Written and Spoken Language in South Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
