Language variation in south Asia /
South 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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Linguistic Change in Some Indian Caste Dialects; 2. Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change with A.K. Ramanujan; 3. Dravidian Metaphony; 4. Language, Social Stratification, and Cognitive Orientation; 5. Complex Verb Forms in Colloquial Tamil with J. Lindenfeld; 6. Phonological Rules in Literary and Colloquial Kannada; 7. Hindi Numerals; 8. The Dravidian Enunciative Vowel; 9. How Not to Decipher the Indus Valley Inscriptions; 10. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ancient Dravidian; 11. Written and Spoken Language in South Asia; Bibliography; Index.