The Dravidian Languages
2nd Edition
Published on 18. December 2019
564 pages
978-1-317-52540-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines a modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages.
New to this edition are chapters on Be??a Ku?umba, Ku?ux, Kuvi and Malaya?am, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout.
The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies.
New to this edition are chapters on Be??a Ku?umba, Ku?ux, Kuvi and Malaya?am, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout.
The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the previous edition:'Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable "the layman or linguist ... to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages" ... The volume succeeds in Steever's aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation.'
Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
145 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-317-52540-0 (9781317525400)
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Sanford B. Steever holds three degrees in linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of five books and 60 articles on historical linguistics, syntax, Dravidian linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for nearly 50 years, is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.
Content
1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages
Sanford B. Steever
2 The Dravidian Scripts
William Bright
Part I: South Dravidian
3 Old Tamil
Thomas Lehmann
4 Modern Tamil
E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever
5 Malayalam
P. Sreekumar
6 Betta Kurumba
Gail Coelho
7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever
8 Tulu
D.N.S. Bhat
Part II: South-Central Dravidian
9 Old Telugu
P. Ramanarasimham
10 Telugu
Bh. Krishnamurti
11 Ko??a
Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham
12 Gon?i
Sanford B. Steever
13 Kuvi
Sanford B. Steever
Part III: Central Dravidian
14 Kolami
P.S. Subrahmanyam
15 Gadaba
Peri Bhaskararao
Part IV: North Dravidian
16 Malto
Sanford B. Steever
17 Kurux
Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon
18 Brahui
Josef Elfenbein
Sanford B. Steever
2 The Dravidian Scripts
William Bright
Part I: South Dravidian
3 Old Tamil
Thomas Lehmann
4 Modern Tamil
E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever
5 Malayalam
P. Sreekumar
6 Betta Kurumba
Gail Coelho
7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever
8 Tulu
D.N.S. Bhat
Part II: South-Central Dravidian
9 Old Telugu
P. Ramanarasimham
10 Telugu
Bh. Krishnamurti
11 Ko??a
Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham
12 Gon?i
Sanford B. Steever
13 Kuvi
Sanford B. Steever
Part III: Central Dravidian
14 Kolami
P.S. Subrahmanyam
15 Gadaba
Peri Bhaskararao
Part IV: North Dravidian
16 Malto
Sanford B. Steever
17 Kurux
Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon
18 Brahui
Josef Elfenbein
