Language variation in South Asia / / William Bright
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| Autore: |
Bright William <1928-2006.>
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| Titolo: |
Language variation in South Asia / / William Bright
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 494.8 |
| 494/.8 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Dravidian languages - Variation |
| Diglossia (Linguistics) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Asia Languages Variation |
| Note generali: | Bibliography:p149-161.-Includes index. |
| Previously issued in print: 1990. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-161) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This volume contains 12 essays on the languages of South Asia, written by a leading authority on the subject. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Language variation in South Asia |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772194-X |
| 1-280-60546-4 | |
| 0-19-536249-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820559203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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