Old and New Perspectives on South Asian Languages

Grammar and Semantics

• Author(s): Colin P. Masica,
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
• Pages: 357
• ISBN_10: 8120832086
  ISBN_13: 9788120832084
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax ,

Description:... This volume represents a good sample of current scholarship on South Asian languages, historical, descriptive, and typological. It includes material pertaining to most of the linguistic stocks of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Munda, Tibeto-Burman, even Burushaski-along with important comparisons with some of those outside it) - by contributors from six different countries. It grew out of an international contributors from six different countries. It grew out of an international conference on South Asian languages held in Moscow in July 2003.