The Dravidian LanguagesThe Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
descriptive | 48 |
3 The writing systems of the major literary languages | 78 |
historical and comparative | 90 |
roots stems formatives derivational suffixes and nominal compounds | 179 |
nouns pronouns numerals and time and place adverbs | 205 |
7 The verb | 277 |
8 Adjectives adverbs and clitics | 388 |
9 Syntax | 420 |
10 Lexicon | 470 |
| 504 | |
| 523 | |
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Common terms and phrases
added adjectives adverbs alternation auxiliary become borrowed Brahui called cause Central Dravidian century clause comparative compound consonants contrast corresponding derived developed dialects Dravidian languages Emeneau ending evidence examples expressions finite formed by adding forms Gadaba give given Gondi human Indo-Aryan innovation Kanna.da Konda Kota Krishnamurti Kuvi later literary literary languages loss lost MalayŻa.lam marked marker meaning namely nasal negative nominal non-past North Note nouns oblique occurs Old Tamil original participle past Pengo perfective person plural position postpositions predicate present preserved pronouns Proto-Dravidian reconstructed remains replaced represented root rule sentence short singular sound South Dravidian South Dravidian II stage stems stop subgroups suffix syllable Table Tamil Telugu tense transitive tree verb voiced vowel
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Dravidian Languages Cambridge Language Surveys |
| Author | Bhadriraju Krishnamurti |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1139435337, 9781139435338 |
| Length | 545 pages |
| Subjects | › › Foreign Language Study / Indic Languages Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative Social Science / Regional Studies |
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