A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages PDF Download

Author: Robert Caldwell
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Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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Author: Robert Caldwell
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120601178
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: Robert Caldwell
Publisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783337901493
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author: Homer Bezaleel Hulbert
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Category : Corean language
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Robert Caldwell
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Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Author: Mikhail Sergeevich Andronov
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447044554
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Due to their crucial role one of the major tasks in modern South Asia linguistics is the research of the historical view of the Dravidian Languages. A knowledge of the Dravidian language structure in all its development stages, from their earliest beginnings to today, is necessary for understanding numerous fundamental aspects with the emergence of the indoarian, Munda and other languages of south Asia and of course for the history of the Dravidian language family itself. The Comparative Grammar forms an important part of the historical linguistics. Yet Richard Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages (London, 1856, 2/1875, 3/1913) is outdated. An up to date comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages therefore was long overdue. With the work of the renowned Russian Dravidian scientist Mikhail S. Andronov, in which the over 80 known, investigated and described languages and dialects of the Dravidian language family are taken in consideration, this gap has been closed.

Author: Robert Caldwell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 337517599X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435337
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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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.

Author: Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198241225
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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"The book contains solutions to long-standing problems in the phonology and morphology of comparative Dravidian and proposes many seminal and original ideas. In addition to critical surveys on developments in comparative phonology, morphology, the subgrouping of the languages, and on the contact and convergence between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, there are chapters on types of sound change and phonological and morphological issues in Dravidian, as well as the methodology required to address them. Also included is the author's groundbreaking proposal for a laryngeal for Proto-Dravidian, by means of which he was able to address several grammatical and etymological problems in later linguistic developments."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520931904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786—proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe—and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816—the "Dravidian proof," showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not derived from Sanskrit. These concepts are valid still today, centuries later. This book continues the examination Thomas R. Trautmann began in Aryans and British India (1997). While the previous book focused on Calcutta and Jones, the current volume examines these developments from the vantage of Madras, focusing on Ellis, Collector of Madras, and the Indian scholars with whom he worked at the College of Fort St. George, making use of the rich colonial record. Trautmann concludes by showing how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics and continue in the present as unseen but nevertheless living elements of the modern.