Expressives in the South Asian linguistic area / / edited by Nathan Badenoch, Nishaant Choksi.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Badenoch, Nathan,; Choksi, Nishaant,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman) and covers domains in semantics, morphosyntax, and phonotactics. It also includes studies from literature and film that show how expressive form and function are embedded in performative contexts. Finally, the volume also contains first of its kind data from several small endangered languages from the region. Proposing an innovative methodology that combines structural and semiotic analysis, the volume advances a more holistic understanding of areal phenomena that departs from previous studies of the South Asian linguistic area.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi -- Part 1 Grammatical Investigations -- 1 Sticky Semantics -- Expressive Meaning in Mundari -- Nathan Badenoch -- 2 Phonotactics and Sound Symbolism in Bangla -- Masayuki Onishi and Durga Pada Datta -- 3 Expanding the Template of Reduplication in Mundari -- Toshiki Osada, Madhu Purti and Nathan Badenoch -- 4 Expressive Form and Function in Solega -- Aung Si -- Part 2 Diachronic Perspectives -- 5 Expressives in Sangam, Medieval, and Modern Tamil -- Vasu Renganathan -- 6 Etymological Sources of Kurux Expressives -- Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon -- Part 3 Expressives in Poetic and Performative Contexts -- 7 Expressives in Hindi Film Songs -- Nishaant Choksi -- 8 Expressives in Bangla Literature -- Pabitra Sarkar -- 9 Expressives in the Santali Poetry of Sadhu Ramchand Murmu -- Ganesh Murmu, Sarada Prasad Kisku and Nishaant Choksi -- Part 4 Descriptive Sketches -- 10 Sora Expressives -- Gregory Anderson and Opino Gomango -- 11 Birhor Expressives -- Bikram Jora -- 12 Duhumbi Expressives -- Timotheus Bodt -- 13 Nihali Expressives -- An Isolate in Its Regional Context -- Shailendra Mohan -- Index.