Language Variation in South AsiaSouth 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. |
Contents
1 Linguistic Change in Some Indian Caste Dialects | 3 |
2 Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change with A K Ramanujan | 11 |
3 Dravidian Metaphony | 19 |
4 Language Social Stratification and Cognitive Orientation | 37 |
5 Complex Verb Forms in Colloquial Tamil with J Lindenfeld | 44 |
6 Phonological Rules in Literary and Colloquial Kannada | 65 |
7 Hindi Numerals | 74 |
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A. K. Ramanujan allophones assimilation basic Brahmin Brahmin dialect Bright caste dialects colloquial dialects colloquial Kannada colloquial Tamil completely consonant contrast corresponds Deccan College dialects dialects of Tamil Dravidian languages elided Emeneau enunciative ï enunciative vowel environment examples final give grammar guage high vowel Hindi Hindi numerals historical Imperative Indo-Aryan Indus script Indus Valley inscriptions iruX Kanapathi Pillai Kanarese Kannada Kodagu Krishnamurti literary Tamil loanwords M. B. Emeneau Malayalam medial metaphony mid vowels Mitchiner modern morphemes morphophonemic Mysore naḍaX Nayak Non-Brahmin numerals obstruent occurs oral Perf phonemic phonological Present Prog PSDr Ramaswami Aiyar Refl retroflex rounded vowel rule operates sandhi Sanskrit script semantic Shankar Bhat Shanmugam Pillai short vowels sign-groups sociolinguistic South Asia spoken stems structure style suffix syllables symbol Tamil Tamil dialect Telugu Tense tion Tulu ūḍ verb forms walk words written Zvelebil
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