The Dravidian LanguagesCambridge University Press, 16 jan 2003 - 545 pagina's The 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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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 |
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3m sg 3neu adjectival adjectives adverbs alveolar auxiliary borrowed Brahui clause clitic cognates consonants dative DEDR derived dialects Dravidian languages Emeneau finite verbs formed by adding Gadaba geminate gender genitive Gondi grammatical Indo-Aryan infinitive inflected intransitive Irula Kannada Koḍ Kodagu Kolami Konda Kota Krishnamurti Kuṛ Kurumba Kurux Kuvi lexical literary languages locative long vowel main verb Malayāļam Malt Malto Manda meaning Modern Tamil Modern Telugu morph Naiki nasal negative nominal non-finite verbs non-past North nouns oblique occurs Old Tamil Old Telugu Ollari palatal Parji past and non-past past marker past stem Pengo personal suffixes phonemic phonological plural postpositions predicate pronouns Proto-Dravidian Proto-South Dravidian reconstructed for Proto-Dravidian reflexive retroflex root Sanskrit singular sound change South Dravidian stop subgroups Subrahmanyam suffix syllable Tamil Telugu tense Tulu voiced voiceless word-initial words Zvelebil