Overview

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman) and covers domains in semantics, morphosyntax, and phonotactics. It also includes studies from literature and film that show how expressive form and function are embedded in performative contexts. Finally, the volume also contains first of its kind data from several small endangered languages from the region. Proposing an innovative methodology that combines structural and semiotic analysis, the volume advances a more holistic understanding of areal phenomena that departs from previous studies of the South Asian linguistic area.

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Author:   Nathan Badenoch ,  Nishaant Choksi
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9789004431065

ISBN 10:   9004431063
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   15 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword List of Maps, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi Part 1 Grammatical Investigations 1 Sticky Semantics Expressive Meaning in Mundari  Nathan Badenoch 2 Phonotactics and Sound Symbolism in Bangla  Masayuki Onishi and Durga Pada Datta 3 Expanding the Template of Reduplication in Mundari  Toshiki Osada, Madhu Purti and Nathan Badenoch 4 Expressive Form and Function in Solega  Aung Si Part 2 Diachronic Perspectives 5 Expressives in Sangam, Medieval, and Modern Tamil  Vasu Renganathan 6 Etymological Sources of Kurux Expressives  Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon Part 3 Expressives in Poetic and Performative Contexts 7 Expressives in Hindi Film Songs  Nishaant Choksi 8 Expressives in Bangla Literature  Pabitra Sarkar 9 Expressives in the Santali Poetry of Sadhu Ramchand Murmu  Ganesh Murmu, Sarada Prasad Kisku and Nishaant Choksi Part 4 Descriptive Sketches 10 Sora Expressives  Gregory Anderson and Opino Gomango 11 Birhor Expressives  Bikram Jora 12 Duhumbi Expressives  Timotheus Bodt 13 Nihali Expressives An Isolate in Its Regional Context  Shailendra Mohan Index

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Expressives are the strongest examples of lexicon emoting a culture of a community and warrant to be recognized as constituting a separate grammatical category. [...] There is no grammatical category in human language that has such powerful emotive powers. One must read this volume to believe it. ~ Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2021, DOI: 10.1111/jola.12350)

Author Information

Nathan Badenoch, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. He has worked extensively on Austroasiatic languages in Southeast Asia and South Asia and most recently has co-edited A Dictionary of Mundari Expressives (2019, ILCAA, Tokyo). Nishaant Choksi, Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, Gujarat India. His recent publications have focused on expressives and script systems in the Austroasiatic languages of eastern India.

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