Languages Of South Asia

Author : Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,S. N. Sridhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521781411

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Language in South Asia by Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,S. N. Sridhar Pdf

An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international scholars within the field of language and linguistics. It is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351967723

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Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Specifically, the contributors to this volume examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions and perceptions of speakers. These forms, often referred to expressives, remain relatively undocumented, until now. It is clear from the evidence on contextualized language use that the grammatically artistic usage of these forms enriches and enlivens both every day and ritualized genres of discourse. The contributors to this volume provide grammatical and sociolinguistic documentation through a typological introduction to the diversity of expressive forms in the languages of South Asia. This book is suitable for students and researchers in South Asian Languages, and language families of the following; Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic.

Author : Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,S. N. Sridhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139465503

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Language in South Asia by Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,S. N. Sridhar Pdf

South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading international scholars within the fields of South Asian language and linguistics, historical linguistics, cultural studies and area studies. Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teaching. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.

Author : Michael C. Shapiro,Harold F. Schiffman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857634

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Language and Society in South Asia by Michael C. Shapiro,Harold F. Schiffman Pdf

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Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134932573

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The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa by Bernard Comrie Pdf

Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas.

Author : Hans Henrich Hock,Elena Bashir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110423389

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The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia by Hans Henrich Hock,Elena Bashir Pdf

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.

Author : Anju Saxena,Lars Borin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197785

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Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia by Anju Saxena,Lars Borin Pdf

The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dominant languages (e.g., Hindi, Urdu, Nepali) are gaining ground beside English at the expense of the lesser-known languages. Despite a long history of stable multilingualism, language death is not uncommon in the South Asian context. We do not know how the language situation in South Asia will be affected by modern information and communication technologies: Will cultural and linguistic diversity be strengthened or weakened as they become increasingly prevalent in all walks of life? This volume brings together areas of research that so far do not interact to any significant extent: traditional South Asian descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics, documentary linguistics, issues of intellectual and cultural property and fieldwork ethics, and language technology. Researchers working in the areas of documentary linguistics and language technology have become aware of each other in the last few years, and of how work in the other area could be potentially useful in furthering their own aims. Similarly, the insights of documentary linguistics are making their way into descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics. However, the potential for synergy among these areas of research is almost limitless. This volume provides the reader, not so much with a do-it-yourself recipe for applying modern technology to the problem of language shift in South Asia today, but rather with some basic knowledge about the problems involved and some directions from which solutions could be forthcoming, a toolbox rather than a blueprint, for helping to shape the linguistic future of South Asia.

Author : Kārumūri V. Subbārāo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521861489

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South Asian Languages by Kārumūri V. Subbārāo Pdf

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

Author : G. A. Zograph
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000831597

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Languages of South Asia by G. A. Zograph Pdf

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan). It concentrates on the more southern languages, that is the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda groups; a brief survey of Tibeto-Burman languages is also included. As well as giving a description of the current status and character of each language, Dr. Zograph goes into a detailed structural analysis of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The problems of the historical background of the modern languages, and their classification, are also discussed. The book is supplemented by two language maps, tables showing the main alphabets, a bibliography of reliable works on the subject and an index of 350 language names used in the text. This book will be of interest to students of language, linguistics and South Asian studies.

Author : Josef Bayer,Tanmoy Bhattacharya,M.T. Hany Babu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292452

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Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages by Josef Bayer,Tanmoy Bhattacharya,M.T. Hany Babu Pdf

The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The contributions to the present volume combine theoretical reasoning in syntax and phonology with a comparative research agenda in which South Asian languages figure prominently. The topics range from issues of clause structure, serial verb constructions, cleft- and question formation, to the question of what the proper syntactic format of modification should be, issues of binding theory and raising, and issues of complementation, the clausal periphery and clausal typing. The collection of articles concludes with two chapters on Dravidian and comparative phonology and a chapter on the shaping of phonological awareness by different writing systems. The authors and the editors devote this piece of work to Professor K.A. Jayaseelan, one of present-day India’s most influential linguists.

Author : G. A. Zograph
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000831658

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Languages of South Asia by G. A. Zograph Pdf

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan). It concentrates on the more southern languages, that is the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda groups; a brief survey of Tibeto-Burman languages is also included. As well as giving a description of the current status and character of each language, Dr. Zograph goes into a detailed structural analysis of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The problems of the historical background of the modern languages, and their classification, are also discussed. The book is supplemented by two language maps, tables showing the main alphabets, a bibliography of reliable works on the subject and an index of 350 language names used in the text. This book will be of interest to students of language, linguistics and South Asian studies.

Author : Bhadriraju Krishnamurti,Colin P. Masica,Anjani Kumar Sinha
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8120800338

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South Asian Languages by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti,Colin P. Masica,Anjani Kumar Sinha Pdf

Author : William Bright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195362497

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Language Variation in South Asia by William Bright Pdf

South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian language cover a broad range of topics in South Asian linguistics. The essays address social dialect, structural borrowing, areal linguistics, the relation between literary and colloquial standards, and the role of written language in South Asian culture from the times of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Offering a sociolinguistic approach, and encompassing both descriptive and historical studies, this collection of twelve of Bright's most important essays reflects his extensive research on the linguistics of South Asia.

Author : Clarence Maloney
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Indic philology
ISBN : 9004057412

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Language and Civilization Change in South Asia by Clarence Maloney Pdf

Author : Vijay Gambhir
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 081223328X

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The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages by Vijay Gambhir Pdf

The first book to apply the latest methodological analysis to the languages of South Asia, The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages provides a much needed examination of learners and their learning patterns, language materials and their delivery, classroom environments, and learning conditions beyond the classroom. The contributors, accredited researchers and experienced teachers, test important universal learning hypotheses on "less commonly taught languages" and find that those circumstances have significant implications for theory and practice. The book brings into focus a variety of issues related to linguistic theory, second language acquisition research, non-verbal communication, discourse appropriateness, learner variation, and strategies for developing speaking, listening, and reading skills. It is also a valuable addition to the general body of knowledge in the field of adult language acquisition. A carefully prepared index and an extensive bibliography covering both the South Asian field and general literature enhance the book's usefulness as a reference guide.