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Author:   Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138291157

ISBN 10:   1138291153
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   31 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents List of Figures & Tables List of Appendices List of Contributors 1 Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams Part I: South Asia in Comparative Perspective 2 Expressives as a Semantically Complex Category in South Asian Languages Anvita Abbi Part II: Expressives in the Indo-Aryan Sphere 3 Expressives in Hindi Annie Motaut 4 Nepali Expressive Morphology George van Driem Part III: Expressives in the Dravidian Family 5 Morphosyntax of Expressives in Malayalam P. Sreekumar & S. Prema 6 Expressive Morphology: A Study of Iraṭṭaik Kilavi in Tamil Vridhachalem Pillay Subramaniam Part IV: Expressive Morphology in Tibeto-Burman 7 Reduplication in Lamkang: Form, Function, Feeling Shobhana Chelliah, Evaline Blair, Melissa Robinson, Rex Khullar, and Sumshot Khular 8 The Functional Value of Formal Exuberance: Isomorphism and Expressive Intensification in Adi and Milang Yankee Modi and Mark W. Post Part V: The Tai Presence in South Asia 9 A Study of the Poetics of Tai Ahom Stephen Morey Part VI: The Munda World 10 Expressives in the Munda Languages Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora Index

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Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Ethnology and Linguistics in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Texas Tech University. He is coeditor on three books (excluding the present contribution) and editor of another. His field-based research has been in the West Indies, Australia, Papua New Guinea and with Native American tribes in Oklahoma (USA) and Montagnard refugees in North Carolina and Texas (USA). He is presently writing a monograph entitled Expressives for Cambridge University Press.

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