The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia : : A Comprehensive Guide / / ed. by Elena Bashir, Hans Henrich Hock.
With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The World of Linguistics [WOL] ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 917 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1. The languages, their histories, and their genetic classification
- 2. Contact and convergence
- 3. Phonetics and phonology
- 4. Morphology
- 5. Syntax and semantics
- 6 Sociolinguistics
- 7. Indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions
- 8. Applications of modern technology to South Asian languages
- 9. Writing systems
- Appendix — Sources and resources
- Language index
- Subject index