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Zusatztext The impressive treatment of central topics for the understanding of the Dravidian language family makes the collection of papers of continuing importance. Informationen zum Autor Bhadriraju Krishnamurti is Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Hyderabad. During his long academic career he has held many positions including most recently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad (1986-93) and Tagore Professor of Linguistics at Osmania University (1962-88). In 1970 he was elected President of the Linguistic Society of India; in 1980 he was President of the Dravidian Linguistic Association; and in 1985 he was elected Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America. He has held several prestigious fellowships including Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (1975-6); Tokyo University Centenary Fellow (1980); and Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1999-2000). He has served on the editorial advisory boards of several international journals and book series. His own publications cover a wide range of themes such as lexicography, dialectology, language planning, literacy, etc. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book will make available the author's most important published articles on Dravidian over the last forty years. It will include a new and substantial introduction to the field, and will conclude 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 will appear substantially unchanged, with individual addenda in which the author will consider the impact of subsequent work by himself and others. The papers contain solutions to long-standing problems of phonology and morphology of comparative Dravidian. Many seminal ideas have been introduced into the field for the first time. The theoretical highlights such as grammatical constraints on sound change, spread of sound change through lexical diffusion, a new statistical model for linguistic subgrouping within the framework of lexical diffusion, and the interplay of synchronic and diachronic rules in language history, will all be of interest to any comparative and historical linguist working on any language family. To any student of Dravidian linguistics, this volume is indispensable. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Alternations in vowel-length in Telugu verbal bases: A comparative study 2: Alternations i/e and u/o in 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 since Current 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...
