The Dravidian Languages

2. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-85376-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1004 g

Reihe: Routledge Language Family Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Steever, Sanford B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages

Sanford B. Steever

2 The Dravidian Scripts

William Bright

Part I: South Dravidian

3 Old Tamil

Thomas Lehmann

4 Modern Tamil

E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever

5 Malayalam

P. Sreekumar

6 Betta Kurumba

Gail Coelho

7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever

8 Tulu

D.N.S. Bhat

Part II: South-Central Dravidian

9 Old Telugu

P. Ramanarasimham

10 Telugu

Bh. Krishnamurti

11 Konda

Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham

12 Gondi

Sanford B. Steever

13 Kuvi

Sanford B. Steever

Part III: Central Dravidian

14 Kolami

P.S. Subrahmanyam

15 Gadaba

Peri Bhaskararao

Part IV: North Dravidian

16 Malto

Sanford B. Steever

17 Kurux

Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon

18 Brahui

Josef Elfenbein

Über Autor(innen)

Sanford B. Steever holds three degrees in linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of five books and 60 articles on historical linguistics, syntax, Dravidian linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for nearly 50 years, is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.