This volume consists of 30 selected papers presented to the IInd International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics held during January 9-11, 1980, hosted by the Department of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. The papers cover a wide range of topics in South Asian Linguistics: phonetics, phonology, language variation, Panini, semantics, typology, etc. A special feature of the volume is a collection of essays which focus on two important aspects of South Asian Linguistics, viz. 'Convergence' and 'Diglossia' which should be of interest to all students of Linguistics all over the world.
Most of the contributors of these papers are established scholars in South Asian Linguistics with international renown.
About the Author:
Bh. Krishnamurti is Professor of Linguistics at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He received a B.A. (Hons) degree (1948) in Telugu language and literatue from Andhra Univerisity, Waltari, and A.M. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include: Telugu verbal bases: A comparative and descriptive study, UCPL24 (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1961); A Telugu dialect dictionary of occupational vocabularies, Vol. I (Agriculture 1962), Vol. II (Handloom 1972), Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi (Hyderabad); Konda or Kubi: A Dravidian language (Hyderabad, 1969), A grammar of modern Telugu (coauthored with J.P.L. Gwynn), Oxford India (New Delhi, 1985).
Colin P. Masica has a Ph.D from the University of Chicago and is Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His major work is Defining a linguistic area: South Asia, the University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 1976).
Anjani K. Sinha is a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is Reader in the Department of Linguistics, Delhi Univeristy.
Preface
Comments on 'Convergence' (Part II) By COLIN P. MASICA
Comments on 'Diglossia' (Part III) By BH. KRISHNAMURTI
HANS HENRICH HOCK
"P-Oriented" constructions in Sanskrit
KASHI WALI
Case of causee
K. S. YADURAJAN
Subjacency: Counter-evidence from Kannada
H. S. ANANTHANARAYANA
Treatment of homonymy in Panini's Astadhyayi
GEORGE CARDONA
Phonology and phonetics in ancient Indian works: The case of voiced and voiceless elements
MANJARI OHALA
A search for the phonetic correlates of Hindi stress
A. USHA DEVI
On Certain phonological process in South Dravidian II
RAMAVATAR YADAV
Acoustic correlates of word stress in Maithili
WILLIAM BRIGHT
Archaelogy, linguistics and Ancient Dravidian
IRAVATHAM MAHADEVAN
Study of the Indus script: A bilingual approach
J. W. GAIR
Sinhala focused sentences: Naturalization of a calque
YAMUNA KACHRU
The syntax of Dakkhini: A study in language variation and language change
W. KANITTANAN
Kamti Tai: From an SVO to an SOV language
M. H. KLAIMAN
Semantic parameters and the South Asian linguistic area
B. LAKSHMI BAI
A note on syntactic convergence among Indian languages: The verb "to be"
K. MEENAKSHI
The quotative in Indo-Aryan
RAJESHWARI PANDHARIPANDE
Language and language variation: Nagpuri Marathi
B. N. PATNAIK AND IRA PANDIT
Englishization of Oriya
U. N. SINGH, K.V. SUBBARAO AND S.K. BANDYOPADHYAY
Classification of polar verbs in selected South-Asian languages
SANFORD B. STEEVER
Morphological convergence in the Khondmals : (Pro)nominal incorporation
M.W. SUGATHAPALA DE SILVA
Sanskrit grammarians on diglossia
J. W. GAIR
Sinhala diglossia revisited or diglossia dies hard
B. C. JOHNSON
Diglossia in Africa
R. F. MOAG
Diglossia versus bidialectalism: Hindi in Fiji and in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
H. SCHIFFMAN AND S. AROKIANATHAN
Diglossic variation in Tamil film and fiction
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
LANGUAGE INDEX
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This volume consists of 30 selected papers presented to the IInd International Conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics held during January 9-11, 1980, hosted by the Department of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. The papers cover a wide range of topics in South Asian Linguistics: phonetics, phonology, language variation, Panini, semantics, typology, etc. A special feature of the volume is a collection of essays which focus on two important aspects of South Asian Linguistics, viz. 'Convergence' and 'Diglossia' which should be of interest to all students of Linguistics all over the world.
Most of the contributors of these papers are established scholars in South Asian Linguistics with international renown.
About the Author:
Bh. Krishnamurti is Professor of Linguistics at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He received a B.A. (Hons) degree (1948) in Telugu language and literatue from Andhra Univerisity, Waltari, and A.M. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include: Telugu verbal bases: A comparative and descriptive study, UCPL24 (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1961); A Telugu dialect dictionary of occupational vocabularies, Vol. I (Agriculture 1962), Vol. II (Handloom 1972), Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi (Hyderabad); Konda or Kubi: A Dravidian language (Hyderabad, 1969), A grammar of modern Telugu (coauthored with J.P.L. Gwynn), Oxford India (New Delhi, 1985).
Colin P. Masica has a Ph.D from the University of Chicago and is Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His major work is Defining a linguistic area: South Asia, the University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 1976).
Anjani K. Sinha is a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is Reader in the Department of Linguistics, Delhi Univeristy.
Preface
Comments on 'Convergence' (Part II) By COLIN P. MASICA
Comments on 'Diglossia' (Part III) By BH. KRISHNAMURTI
HANS HENRICH HOCK
"P-Oriented" constructions in Sanskrit
KASHI WALI
Case of causee
K. S. YADURAJAN
Subjacency: Counter-evidence from Kannada
H. S. ANANTHANARAYANA
Treatment of homonymy in Panini's Astadhyayi
GEORGE CARDONA
Phonology and phonetics in ancient Indian works: The case of voiced and voiceless elements
MANJARI OHALA
A search for the phonetic correlates of Hindi stress
A. USHA DEVI
On Certain phonological process in South Dravidian II
RAMAVATAR YADAV
Acoustic correlates of word stress in Maithili
WILLIAM BRIGHT
Archaelogy, linguistics and Ancient Dravidian
IRAVATHAM MAHADEVAN
Study of the Indus script: A bilingual approach
J. W. GAIR
Sinhala focused sentences: Naturalization of a calque
YAMUNA KACHRU
The syntax of Dakkhini: A study in language variation and language change
W. KANITTANAN
Kamti Tai: From an SVO to an SOV language
M. H. KLAIMAN
Semantic parameters and the South Asian linguistic area
B. LAKSHMI BAI
A note on syntactic convergence among Indian languages: The verb "to be"
K. MEENAKSHI
The quotative in Indo-Aryan
RAJESHWARI PANDHARIPANDE
Language and language variation: Nagpuri Marathi
B. N. PATNAIK AND IRA PANDIT
Englishization of Oriya
U. N. SINGH, K.V. SUBBARAO AND S.K. BANDYOPADHYAY
Classification of polar verbs in selected South-Asian languages
SANFORD B. STEEVER
Morphological convergence in the Khondmals : (Pro)nominal incorporation
M.W. SUGATHAPALA DE SILVA
Sanskrit grammarians on diglossia
J. W. GAIR
Sinhala diglossia revisited or diglossia dies hard
B. C. JOHNSON
Diglossia in Africa
R. F. MOAG
Diglossia versus bidialectalism: Hindi in Fiji and in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
H. SCHIFFMAN AND S. AROKIANATHAN
Diglossic variation in Tamil film and fiction
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
LANGUAGE INDEX
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