02928nam 2200589Ia 450 991078472920332120230328171100.00-19-772194-X1-280-60546-40-19-536249-7(CKB)1000000000405490(EBL)430694(OCoLC)252617903(SSID)ssj0000189129(PQKBManifestationID)11181233(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189129(PQKBWorkID)10156180(PQKB)11517014(Au-PeEL)EBL430694(CaPaEBR)ebr10278931(CaONFJC)MIL60546(MiAaPQ)EBC430694(EXLCZ)99100000000040549019900129d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage variation in South Asia /William BrightNew York :Oxford University Press,1990.1 online resource (186 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-506365-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-161) and index.Contents; 1. Linguistic Change in Some Indian Caste Dialects; 2. Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change with A. K. Ramanujan; 3. Dravidian Metaphony; 4. Language, Social Stratification, and Cognitive Orientation; 5. Complex Verb Forms in Colloquial Tamil with J. Lindenfeld; 6. Phonological Rules in Literary and Colloquial Kannada; 7. Hindi Numerals; 8. The Dravidian Enunciative Vowel; 9. How Not to Decipher the Indus Valley Inscriptions; 10. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ancient Dravidian; 11. Written and Spoken Language in South Asia; Bibliography; IndexSouth 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.Dravidian languagesVariationDiglossia (Linguistics)South AsiaLanguagesVariationDravidian languagesVariation.Diglossia (Linguistics)494.8494/.8Bright William1928-2006.131131MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784729203321Language variation in South Asia3820896UNINA