The Dravidian languages /
The Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world; they include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. This book provides a linguistic overview of the Dravidian language family, including its history and writing systems, languag...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Cambridge language surveys.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND SYMBOLS; ABBREVI ATIONS; 1 Introduction; 2 Phonology: descriptive; 3 The writing systems of the major literary languages; 4 Phonology: historical and comparative; 5 Word formation: roots, stems, formatives, derivational suffixes and nominal compounds; 6 Nominals: nouns, pronouns, numerals and time and place adverbs; 7 The verb; 8 Adjectives, adverbs and clitics; 9 Syntax; 10 Lexicon; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF RECONSTRUCTIONS WITH GLOSSES.