A Comparative Study of Tulu Dialects
Author: K. Padmanabha Kekunnaya
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 230
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On an Auspicious Day, at Dawn -
Author: Heidrun Brückner
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783447059169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book consists of a collection of essays on aspects of Tulu oral literature and its cultural and religious context. Taking sung poetic ritual texts from the west coast of South India (coastal Karnataka) as her starting point, the author addresses the relationship between text structure and the social and geographical distribution of particular local and subregional cults; questions of gender and genre, of the correlation between narrative and ritual dramatization especially with respect to death, and of success and failure of rituals in the local perception. One essay studies features of South Indian popular cults in a wider perspective. Two of the nine essays discuss historical material relating to Basel Mission activities in the area and compare texts collected in the 19th century with versions collected by the author in the 1980s. The last paper provides a short synopsis of the author's 1995 German monograph on the topic.
The Dravidian Languages
Author: Sanford B. Steever
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-12-18
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 1317525396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 Beṭṭa Kuṟumba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, 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.
Les langues écrites du monde
Author: Heinz Kloss
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 766
ISBN-13: 9782763771960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
Author: Rajendra Singh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-12-19
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 3110211505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have three major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages. II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints. III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.
Language Variation in South Asia
Author: William Bright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990-10-04
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0195362497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth 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.
The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia
Author: Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 964
ISBN-13: 3110423383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.
Approaches to Phonological Complexity
Author: François Pellegrino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 3110223953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComplexity approaches, developed in physics and biology for almost two decades, show today a huge potential for investigating challenging issues in Humanities and Cognitive Sciences and obviously in the study of language(s). Theoretical approaches that integrate self-organization, emergence, non linearity, adaptive systems, information theory, etc., have already been developed to provide a unifying framework that sheds new light on the duality between linguistic diversity on the one hand and unique cognitive capacity of language processing on the other hand. Nevertheless, most of the linguistics literature written in this framework focuses on the syntactic level addressed through computational complexity or performance optimization, while other linguistic components have been somewhat neglected. In this context, the proposed volume draws on an interdisciplinary sketch of the phonetics-phonology interface in the light of complexity. Composed of several first-order contributions, it will consequently be a significant landmark at the time of the rise of several projects linking complexity and linguistics around the world.
Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages
Author: Taro Kageyama
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-02-25
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 0198759509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes - compounds consisting of a main verb and a quasi-auxiliary - in Asian languages. Leading specialists offer an in-depth analysis of the diachrony and geographical distribution of these constructions in a wide range of Asian languages.
Proceedings of the 9th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Author: Stanford Linguistics Association
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780937073643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost of the papers presented at the 1990 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included in this volume. This annual publication, not readily available in the past, makes the latest research in formal linguistics available to a wider audience. Aaron Halpern is a graduate student in linguistics at Stanford University.
