The Kurux language : : grammar, texts and lexicon / / by Masato Kobayashi, Bablu Tirkey.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Volume 8
• VerfasserIn: Kobayashi, Masato, 1970-; Tirkey, Bablu, 1980-2015,
• TeilnehmendeR: Tirkey, Bablu, 1980-2015,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Kurukh
• Series: Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (791 pages) :; illustrations, tables.

The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping. Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Phonology -- Morphology -- Syntax and Pragmatics -- Semantics -- Lexicon -- Glossed Texts -- Lexicon -- Bibliography -- Indexes.