Dravidian linguistics

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Dear members of the list!

 

The following announcement is from the Linguist List. I forward it to Indology

for those who might be interested.

 

Lars Martin Fosse

 

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COMPARATIVE DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS: Current Perspectives

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, University of Hyderabad

Foreword by Murray B. Emeneau

 

This volume is a contribution both to comparative Dravidian studies

and to the theory of language change and lingusitic reconstruction.

It makes available the author's most important published articles on

Dravidian over the last forty years and includes a new and substantial

introduction to the field. The book concludes with a survey of

Dravidian language studies over the last thousand years and a critical

account of work since 1950. Those articles reprinted in the work

appear substantially unchanged, with individual comments.

 

"To have these papers in a single volume will be of the greatest

value. The result will be virtually a compendium of comparative

Dravidian linguistics such as is nowhere else available. It will

instantly become a primary reference and tool for students of

Dravidian linguistics everywhere."--Professor William Bright,

University of Colorado

 

"It is impossible to do serious work in Professor Krishnamurti's

principal chosen field without consulting the books and articles he

has written over a period of four decades. Almost everything he

has published is original, insightful, and authoritative, and put

together the collection would provide a sort of epitome of the

history of the comparative study of Dravidian languages over the

period in question."--Professor R. E. Asher, University of

Edinburgh

 

April 2001 448 pp.; 31 line illus, 12 maps

0-19-824122-4 $95.00

Oxford University Press

 

 

 

Dr. art. Lars Martin Fosse

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Norway

Phone: +47 22 32 12 19

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Email: lmfosse

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Try this URL:

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-824122-4

 

 

A sample of this book is available in PDF format.

Click on the words "A sample of this book"

 

You will get Prof. BhK's paper:

Alternations in vowel length in Telugu verbal bases:

A comparative study.

 

Description of the book:

This volume is a contribution both to comparative Dravidian

studies and to the theory of language change and linguistic

reconstruction. It makes available the author's most important

published articles on Dravidian over the last forty years and includes

a new and substantial introduction to the field. The book concludes

with a survey of Dravidian language studies over the last thousand

years and a critical account of work since 1950. Those articles

reprinted in the work appear substantially unchanged, with individual

addenda in which the author considers the impact of subsequent work

by himself and others.

 

Readership: Historical morphologists, syntacticians, historical

and comparative phonologists, and those interested in Indian languages

in general.

Contents/contributors

1 Alternations in vowel-length in Telugu verbal bases: A

comparative study

2 Alternations i/e and u/o in South Dravidian

3 Proto-Dravidian *z

4 Dravidian personal pronouns

5 Comparative Dravidian linguistics

6 Dravidian nasals in Brahui

7 Some observations on Tamil phonology of the 12th and 13th

centuries

8 Gender and number in Proto-Dravidian

9 Sound change: Shared innovation vs. diffusion

10 Areal and lexical diffusion of sound change: Evidence from

Dravidian

11 On diachronic and synchronic rules in phonology: The case of

Parji

12 A vowel-lowering rule in Kui-Kuvi

13 Unchanged cognates as a criterion in linguistic subgrouping

(with Lincoln Moses and Douglas Danforth)

14 An overview of comparative Dravidian studies since Current

Trends (1969)

15 A problem of reconstruction in Gondi: Interaction between

phonological

and morphological processes (with G. U. Rao)

16 The emergence of the syllable types of stems ©VCC(V) and

©VC(V) in

Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: A case of convergence

17 The origin and evolution of primary derivative suffixes in

Dravidian

18 Patterns of sound change in Dravidian

19 Evidence for a laryngeal *H in Proto-Dravidian

20 Regularity of sound change through lexical diffusion: A study of

s>h>ø in Gondi dialects

21 Landmarks in comparative Dravidian studies during the 20th

century

 

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Thanks and kind regards,

N. Ganesan