The Dravidian Languages

Herausgeber: Steever, Sanford B

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Language Family Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 992g
• ISBN-13: 9781138853768
• ISBN-10: 1138853763
• Artikelnr.: 58489867

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Kö
a Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham 12 Gon
i Sanford B. Steever 13 K
vi 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