Expressives in the South Asian linguistic area / / edited by Nathan Badenoch, Nishaant Choksi.
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, A...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; Volume 13 |
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| 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. |
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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.