Overview

The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines a modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. New to this edition are chapters on Beṭṭa Kuṟumba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies.

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Author:   Sanford B. Steever
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9781138853768

ISBN 10:   1138853763
Pages:   564
Publication Date:   16 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages Sanford B. Steever 2 The Dravidian Scripts William Bright Part I: South Dravidian 3 Old Tamil Thomas Lehmann 4 Modern Tamil E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever 5 Malayalam P. Sreekumar 6 Betta Kurumba Gail Coelho 7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever 8 Tulu D.N.S. Bhat Part II: South-Central Dravidian 9 Old Telugu P. Ramanarasimham 10 Telugu Bh. Krishnamurti 11 Koṇḍa Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham 12 Gonḍi Sanford B. Steever 13 Kūvi Sanford B. Steever Part III: Central Dravidian 14 Kolami P.S. Subrahmanyam 15 Gadaba Peri Bhaskararao Part IV: North Dravidian 16 Malto Sanford B. Steever 17 Kurux Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon 18 Brahui Josef Elfenbein

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Praise for the previous edition: 'Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable 'the layman or linguist ... to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages' ... The volume succeeds in Steever's aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation' - Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]

Author Information

Sanford B. Steever holds three degrees in linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of five books and 60 articles on historical linguistics, syntax, Dravidian linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for nearly 50 years, is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.

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