This volume contains detailed descriptions of the anaphoric system of 14 languages of South Asia, representing four linguistic families, Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic. The data for each language are presented in terms of a common, detailed outline which was guided by both c
Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages: A Principled Typology
β Scribed by Barbara C. Lust (editor); Kashi Wali (editor); James W. Gair (editor); K. V. Subbarao (editor)
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 924
- Series
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; 22
- Edition
- Reprint 2011
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
"I feel quite confident in stating that this book is likely to serve in the foreseeable future as the standard reference guide to anaphora in South Asian languages."
Michael C. Shapiro in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123, 1-2003
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Map
Introduction
Dravidian languages
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Kannada
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Malayalam
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Tamil
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Telugu
Indo-Aryan languages
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Bangla
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Gujarati
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Hindi/Urdu
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Kashmiri
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Marathi
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Oriya
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Punjabi
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Sinhala
Tibeto-Burman languages
Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Mizo
Austro-Asiatic languages
An initial note on lexical anaphors and pronouns in Juang
Outline
Glossary
Abbreviations
Transcription conventions and symbols
Index
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