Comparative Dravidian Linguistics Current Perspectives [Hardcover]

This volume is a contribution both to comparative Dravidian studies and to the theory of language change and linguistic reconstruction. It makes available the author's most important published articles on Dravidian over the last forty years and includes a new and substantial introduction to the field. The book concludes with a survey of Dravidian language studies over the last thousand years and a critical account of work since 1950. Those articles reprinted in the work appear substantially unchanged, with individual comments.

1. Alternations in vowel-length in Telugu verbal bases: A comparative study
2. Alternationsi/eandu/oin South Dravidian
3. Proto-Dravidian *z
4. Dravidian personal pronouns
5. Comparative Dravidian linguistics
6. Dravidian nasals in Brahui
7. Some observations on Tamil phonology of the 12th and 13th centuries
8. Gender and number in Proto-Dravidian
9. Sound change: Shared innovation vs. diffusion
10. Areal and lexical diffusion of sound change: Evidence from Dravidian
11. On diachronic and synchronic rules in phonology: The case of Parji
12. A vowel-lowering rule in Kui-Kuvi
13. Unchanged cognates as a criterion in linguistic subgrouping (with Lincoln Moses and Douglas Danforth)
14. An overview of comparative Dravidian studies sinceCurrent Trends(1969)
15. A problem of reconstruction in Gondi: Interaction between phonological and morphological processes (with G. U. Rao)
16. The emergence of the syllable types of stems (C)VCC(V) and (C)VC(V) in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: A case of convergence
17. The origin and evolution of primary derivative suffixes in Dravidian
18. Patterns of sound change in Dravidian
19. Evidence for a laryngeal *Hin Proto-Dravidian
20. Regularity of sound change through lexical diffusion: A study ofs>h>?in Gondi dialects
21. Landmarks in comparative Dravidian studies during the 20th century

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