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Author: Masato Kobayashi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-09-04
Total Pages: 809
ISBN-13: 9004347666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey’s The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon offers a comprehensive grammar, transcribed and glossed texts, and a dictionary of Kurux, an isolated Dravidian tribal language in Eastern India.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9004439153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.
Author: Martin Pfeiffer (Writer on Kurukh language)
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9004643931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sanford B. Steever
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-12-18
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 1317525396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines a modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. New to this edition are chapters on Beṭṭa Kuṟumba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies.
Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-01-16
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 1139435337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.
Author: Selin Grollmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-07-20
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9004435239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal morphology, predicate structures and syntax. In addition to the descriptive parts, this book encompasses a historical-comparative account of Bjokapakha. The introductory chapter provides a comparison with the standard variety of Tshangla and corroborates the internal diversity of the Tshangla branch. The present-day structure of Bjokapakha verbal morphology is illuminated by means of an internal reconstruction. Moreover, this book contains a glossary and a text collection.
Author: Gail Coelho
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9004378243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents interlinearised texts in a Dravidian language of southwestern India. The texts are accompanied by a grammatical sketch and a glossary. Together with rich linguistic data, they provide cultural information about a highly understudied community.
