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Languages and nations : the Dravidian proof in colonial Madras /
British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786-proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe-and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816-the ""Dravidian proof, "" showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931909 0520931904 142941376X 9781429413763 |