Del 13 - Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-15
Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt699 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
Antal sidor330
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004431065

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Nathan Badenoch, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. He has worked extensively on Austroasiatic languages in Southeast Asia and South Asia and most recently has co-edited A Dictionary of Mundari Expressives (2019, ILCAA, Tokyo).Nishaant Choksi, Ph.D. (2014), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Gandhinagar, Gujarat India. His recent publications have focused on expressives and script systems in the Austroasiatic languages of eastern India.

ForewordList of Maps, Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionNathan Badenoch and Nishaant ChoksiPart 1 Grammatical Investigations1 Sticky SemanticsExpressive Meaning in MundariNathan Badenoch2 Phonotactics and Sound Symbolism in BanglaMasayuki Onishi and Durga Pada Datta3 Expanding the Template of Reduplication in MundariToshiki Osada, Madhu Purti and Nathan Badenoch4 Expressive Form and Function in SolegaAung SiPart 2 Diachronic Perspectives5 Expressives in Sangam, Medieval, and Modern TamilVasu Renganathan6 Etymological Sources of Kurux ExpressivesMasato Kobayashi and Tetru OraonPart 3 Expressives in Poetic and Performative Contexts7 Expressives in Hindi Film SongsNishaant Choksi8 Expressives in Bangla LiteraturePabitra Sarkar9 Expressives in the Santali Poetry of Sadhu Ramchand MurmuGanesh Murmu, Sarada Prasad Kisku and Nishaant ChoksiPart 4 Descriptive Sketches10 Sora ExpressivesGregory Anderson and Opino Gomango11 Birhor ExpressivesBikram Jora12 Duhumbi ExpressivesTimotheus Bodt13 Nihali ExpressivesAn Isolate in Its Regional ContextShailendra MohanIndex

"Expressives are the strongest examples of lexicon emoting a culture of a community and warrant to be recognized as constituting a separate grammatical category. [...] There is no grammatical category in human language that has such powerful emotive powers. One must read this volume to believe it." ~ Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2021, DOI: 10.1111/jola.12350)