Comparative Dravidian Linguistics

Current Perspectives

Bhadriraju Krishnamurti author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:8th Feb '01

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This book will make available the author's most important published articles on Dravidian over the last forty years. It will include a new and substantial introduction to the field, and will conclude with a survey of Dravidian language studies over the last thousand years and a critical account of work since 1950. Those articles reprinted in the work will appear substantially unchanged, with individual addenda in which the author will consider the impact of subsequent work by himself and others. The papers contain solutions to long-standing problems of phonology and morphology of comparative Dravidian. Many seminal ideas have been introduced into the field for the first time. The theoretical highlights such as grammatical constraints on sound change, spread of sound change through lexical diffusion, a new statistical model for linguistic subgrouping within the framework of lexical diffusion, and the interplay of synchronic and diachronic rules in language history, will all be of interest to any comparative and historical linguist working on any language family. To any student of Dravidian linguistics, this volume is indispensable.

The impressive treatment of central topics for the understanding of the Dravidian language family makes the collection of papers of continuing importance. * Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society *

ISBN: 9780198241225

Dimensions: 242mm x 165mm x 29mm

Weight: 806g

444 pages