[PDF] Language And Civilization Change In South Asia eBook

Author : Michael C. Shapiro
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110857634

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Author : Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110423308

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With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.

Author : William Bright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1990-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195362497

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South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian language cover a broad range of topics in South Asian linguistics. The essays address social dialect, structural borrowing, areal linguistics, the relation between literary and colloquial standards, and the role of written language in South Asian culture from the times of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Offering a sociolinguistic approach, and encompassing both descriptive and historical studies, this collection of twelve of Bright's most important essays reflects his extensive research on the linguistics of South Asia.

Author : Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Languages in contact
ISBN : 9788121210102

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Top linguistics of India, Taiwan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and various Indian states have contributed on the features of different local languages which are at different levels of development and face problem of growth.

Author : Jonathan M. Kenoyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0195222431

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Learn about the history and civilizations from ancient South Asia through the study of a variety of archaeological discoveries.