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Studies in South Asian linguistics : Sinhala and other South Asian languages / James W. Gair ; selected and edited by Barbara C. Lust.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gair, James W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Tamil language--Dialects.
- Grammar.
- Tamil language.
- History.
- Sri Lanka--Languages--History.
- Sri Lanka.
- Sinhalese language--Grammar.
- Sinhalese language.
- Tamil language--Dialects--Sri Lanka--Jaffna District--Grammar.
- Sri Lanka--Languages--Political aspects.
- Sri Lanka--Jaffna District.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 368 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-360) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195095219
- OCLC:
- 33407448
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