Comparative Dravidian linguistics
Subtitle: current perspectives
By: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti with a foreword by Murray B. Emeneau.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Dravidian languages -- Grammar, Comparative; Dravidian languages -- Phonology; Code switching (Linguistics) -- India, South; Bilingualism -- India -- India, South
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-400) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword by M. B. Emeneau; title: List ofFigures; title: List of Maps; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: A Note on Transliteration and Symbols; title: List ofAbbreviations; title: i. Alternations in Vowel Length in Telugu Verbal Bases:; title: A Comparative Study; title: 2. Alternations i/e and u/o in South Dravidian; title: 3. Proto-Dravidian *z; title: 4. Dravidian Personal Pronouns; title: 5. Comparative Dravidian Studies; title: 6. Dravidian Nasals in Brahui; title: 7. Some Observations on Tamil Phonology of the 12th and 13th Centuries; title: 8. Gender and Number in Proto-Dravidian; title: 9. Sound Change: Shared Innovation vs. Diffusion; title: lo. Areal and Lexical Diffusion of Sound Change: Evidence from Dravidian; title: n1. On Diachronic and Synchronic Rules in Phonology: A Case from Parji; title: 12. A Vowel-Lowering Rule in Kui-Kuvi; title: 13. (With Lincoln Moses and Douglas Danforth) Unchanged Cognates; title: as a Criterion in Linguistic Subgrouping; title: 14. An Overview of Comparative Dravidian Studies since Current Trends; title: in Linguistics 5 (1969) [Ch. 5 above]; title: 15. (With G.U Rao) A Problem of Reconstruction in Gondi: Interaction; title: between Phonological and Morphological Processes; title: 16. The Emergence of the Syllable Types of Stems (C)VCC(V) and; title: (C)VC(V) in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: A Case of Convergence?; title: 17. The Origin and Evolution of Primary Derivative Suffixes in Dravidian; title: 18. Patterns of Sound Change in Dravidian; title: 19. Evidence for a Laryngeal *Hin Proto-Dravidian; title: 20. Regularity of Sound Change through Lexical Diffusion: A Study; title: ofs > h > 0 in Gondi Dialects; title: 21. Landmarks in Comparative Dravidian Studies in the Twentieth Century; title: Bibliography; title: Index.