Studies in South Asian Linguistics: Sinhala and Other South Asian Languages

Neuausgabe 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-509521-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.

This volume collects three decades' worth of papers, both published and unpublished, by the distinguished linguist James Gair, the foremost Western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. The papers reflect the wide range of his interests within South Asian languages and will be of interest not only to scholars of those languages but to those interested in the theoretical issues he explores.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gair, James W.

Lust, Barbara C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie