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Product Identifiers

PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-101032400862

ISBN-139781032400860

eBay Product ID (ePID)10057255487

Product Key Features

Number of Pages564 Pages

Publication NameDravidian Languages

LanguageEnglish

SubjectComparative Literature, General, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2022

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorSanford B. Steever

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesRoutledge Language Family Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight29.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

ReviewsPraise 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], 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]

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal494.8

Table Of Content1 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 Ko¿¿a Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham 12 Gon¿i Sanford B. Steever 13 Kuvi 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

SynopsisThe 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 Be¿¿a Ku¿umba, Ku¿ux, Kuvi and Malaya¿am, 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., 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., 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 Be a Ku umba, Ku ux, Kuvi and Malaya am, 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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