Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43106-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman) and covers domains in semantics, morphosyntax, and phonotactics. It also includes studies from literature and film that show how expressive form and function are embedded in performative contexts. Finally, the volume also contains first of its kind data from several small endangered languages from the region. Proposing an innovative methodology that combines structural and semiotic analysis, the volume advances a more holistic understanding of areal phenomena that departs from previous studies of the South Asian linguistic area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Badenoch, Nathan

Choksi, Nishaant

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi

Part 1 Grammatical Investigations

1 Sticky Semantics

Expressive Meaning in Mundari

Nathan Badenoch

2 Phonotactics and Sound Symbolism in Bangla

Masayuki Onishi and Durga Pada Datta

3 Expanding the Template of Reduplication in Mundari

Toshiki Osada, Madhu Purti and Nathan Badenoch

4 Expressive Form and Function in Solega

Aung Si

Part 2 Diachronic Perspectives

5 Expressives in Sangam, Medieval, and Modern Tamil

Vasu Renganathan

6 Etymological Sources of Kurux Expressives

Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon

Part 3 Expressives in Poetic and Performative Contexts

7 Expressives in Hindi Film Songs

Nishaant Choksi

8 Expressives in Bangla Literature

Pabitra Sarkar

9 Expressives in the Santali Poetry of Sadhu Ramchand Murmu

Ganesh Murmu, Sarada Prasad Kisku and Nishaant Choksi

Part 4 Descriptive Sketches

10 Sora Expressives

Gregory Anderson and Opino Gomango

11 Birhor Expressives

Bikram Jora

12 Duhumbi Expressives

Timotheus Bodt

13 Nihali Expressives

An Isolate in Its Regional Context

Shailendra Mohan

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Badenoch, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. He has worked extensively on Austroasiatic languages in Southeast Asia and South Asia and most recently has co-edited A Dictionary of Mundari Expressives (2019, ILCAA, Tokyo).

Nishaant Choksi, Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, Gujarat India. His recent publications have focused on expressives and script systems in the Austroasiatic languages of eastern India.