Expressives in the South Asian linguistic area
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Expressives in the South Asian linguistic area
(Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, v. 13)
Brill, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
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
by "Nielsen BookData"