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Comparative Dravidian Linguistics: Selected Papers written by Bhadriraju
Krishnamurti, Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Hyderabad.

                Short Description
                This volume is a contribution both to comparative Dravidian
studies
                and to the theory of language change and linguistic
reconstruction. It
                makes available the author's most important published
articles on
                Dravidian over the last forty years and includes a new and
substantial
                introduction to the field. The book concludes with a survey
of
                Dravidian language studies over the last thousand years and
a critical
                account of work since 1950. Those articles reprinted in the
work
                appear substantially unchanged, with individual addenda in
which the
                author considers the impact of subsequent work by himself
and others.

                Contents
                Chapter 1: Alternations in vowel-length in Telugu verbal
bases: A comparative study
                Chapter 2: Alternations i/e and u/o in South Dravidian
                Chapter 3: Proto-Dravidian *z 
                Chapter 4: Dravidian personal pronouns
                Chapter 5: Comparative Dravidian linguistics
                Chapter 6: Dravidian nasals in Brahui
                Chapter 7: Some observations on Tamil phonology of the 12th
and 13th centuries
                Chapter 8: Gender and number in Proto-Dravidian
                Chapter 9: Sound change: Shared innovation vs. diffusion
                Chapter 10: Areal and lexical diffusion of sound change:
Evidence from Dravidian
                Chapter 11: On diachronic and synchronic rules in phonology:
The case of Parji
                Chapter 12: A vowel-lowering rule in Kui-Kuvi
                Chapter 13: Unchanged cognates as a criterion in linguistic
subgrouping (with Lincoln Moses and Douglas Danforth)
                Chapter 14: An overview of comparative Dravidian studies
since Current Trends (1969)
                Chapter 15: A problem of reconstruction in Gondi:
Interaction between phonological and morphological processes (with G. U.
Rao)
                Chapter 16: The emergence of the syllable types of stems
(C)VCC(V) and (C)VC(V) in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: A case of convergence
                Chapter 17: The origin and evolution of primary derivative
suffixes in Dravidian
                Chapter 18: Patterns of sound change in Dravidian
                Chapter 19: Evidence for a laryngeal *H in Proto-Dravidian
                Chapter 20: Regularity of sound change through lexical
diffusion: A study of s>h>ø in Gondi dialects
                Chapter 21: Landmarks in comparative Dravidian studies
during the 20th century


                416 pp, line figures, 12 maps
                June 2000
                0-19-824122-4
                £70.00   Hardback


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