Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area
Title Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 343
Release 2020-10-12
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004439153

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This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia
Title Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher Routledge
Pages 228
Release 2020-08-30
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 135196772X

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Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Specifically, the contributors to this volume examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions and perceptions of speakers. These forms, often referred to expressives, remain relatively undocumented, until now. It is clear from the evidence on contextualized language use that the grammatically artistic usage of these forms enriches and enlivens both every day and ritualized genres of discourse. The contributors to this volume provide grammatical and sociolinguistic documentation through a typological introduction to the diversity of expressive forms in the languages of South Asia. This book is suitable for students and researchers in South Asian Languages, and language families of the following; Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic.

The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia

The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
Title The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia PDF eBook
Author Paul Sidwell
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 983
Release 2021-08-23
Genre History
ISBN 3110558149

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The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
Title Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions PDF eBook
Author Arjun Appadurai
Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Pages 512
Release 1994
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9788120811782

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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills, Editors The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia. South Asia Seminar 1991 ] 464 pages ] 6 x 9 ] 7 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1337-9 ] Paper ] $27.50s ] 18.00 World Rights ] Anthropology

Reduplication in South Asian Languages

Reduplication in South Asian Languages
Title Reduplication in South Asian Languages PDF eBook
Author Anvita Abbi
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 1992
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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Language and Society in South Asia

Language and Society in South Asia
Title Language and Society in South Asia PDF eBook
Author Michael C. Shapiro
Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Pages 314
Release 2008-09-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9788120826076

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During the past two decades there has been a significant amount of research and publication concerning the sociolinguistics of South Asian languages. Language and Society in South Asia is the first major attempt to assess the impact of this new literature. It exposits the methodological and theoretical assumptions of sociolinguistic descriptions of south Asian languages, and contrasts them with the assumptions of earlier characterizations of these languages. An important feature of this book is its detailed examination of numerous schools of linguistic analysis within which most past descriptive work on South Asian languages has been carried out. This is done in language accessible both to the professional linguist and to non-linguists interested in social aspects of language use in South Asia. Among the topics treated in this book are traditional taxonomies of South Asian languages, South Asia as a linguistic area, social dialectology, bi- and multilingualism in South Asia, pidginization, creolization, and South Asian English, ethnographic semantics, and the ethnography of speaking. The work also contains an extensive bibliography of the scholarly literature pertinent to the study of South Asian languages in their social contexts.

Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)

Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)
Title Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) PDF eBook
Author Timotheus Adrianus Bodt
Publisher BRILL
Pages 789
Release 2020-01-13
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004409483

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With Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa), Timotheus Adrianus (Tim) Bodt provides the first comprehensive description of any of the Western Kho-Bwa languages, a sub-group of eight linguistic varieties of the Kho-Bwa cluster (Tibeto-Burman). Duhumbi is spoken by 600 people in the Chug valley in West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Duhumbi people, known to the outside world as Chugpa or Chug Monpa, belong to the Monpa Scheduled Tribe. Despite that affiliation, Duhumbi is not intelligible to speakers of any of the other Monpa languages except Khispi (Lishpa). The volume Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa) describes all aspects of the language, including phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and discourse. Moreover, it also contains links to additional resources freely accessible on-line.