Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics : : 2007 / / ed. by Rajendra Singh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Backus, Ad,; Bhatia, Tej K.,; Bhatt, Rakesh M.,; Dasgupta, Probal,; Davison, Alice,; Ghosh, Rajat,; Kidwai, Ayesha,; Lange, Claudia,; Pandey, Pramod,; Peterson, John,; Sayeed, Syed A.,; Singh, Rajendra,
• HerausgeberIn: Singh, Rajendra,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 190
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of id...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• General Contributions
• The Nominal Left Periphery in Bangla and
• Asamiya
• Special Contributions: Indian English / English in
• India
• The Nature, Structure, and Status of Indian
• English
• Seeking the Holy Grail of Nativeness
• On the Native/Non-native Distinction
• The Athletics of English in India
• Let s Face the Music: The Multilingual
• Challenge
• The Notion ‘Native Speaker’: A Philosophical
• Response
• Regional Reports
• Europe
• Reviews
• Rama Kant Agnihotri – Hindi: An Essential
• Grammar
• Yamuna Kachru – Hindi
• P. G. Patel, Pramod Pandey and Dilip Rajgor (eds.)
• – The Indic Scripts: Paleographic and Linguistic Perspective.
• Kashi Wali – Marathi. A study in comparative South
• Asian languages.
• Dialogue
• Whole Word Morphology and its Indian
• Critics
• Backmatter