17.3343, Books: Language Description: Krishnamurti

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Date: 07-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: The Dravidian Languages: Krishnamurti 

	
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:32:33
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: The Dravidian Languages: Krishnamurti 
 



Title: The Dravidian Languages 
Series Title: Cambridge Language Surveys  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti

Paperback: ISBN: 0521025125 Pages: 573 Price: U.S. $ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521025125 Pages: 573 Price: U.K. £ 43.00


Abstract:

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. 



Acknowledgements; 
1. Introduction; 
2. Phonology: descriptive; 
3. The writing systems of the 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; 
11. Conclusion; 
Bibliography; 
Indexes. 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Description

Language Family(ies): Dravidian


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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