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Title Expressives in the South Asian linguistic area / edited by Nathan Badenoch, Nishaant Choksi
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Series Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; volume 13
Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 13.
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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2021)
Subject Language and languages -- Semantics
SUBJECT South Asia -- Languages -- Ideophone
South Asia -- Languages -- Mimetic words
South Asia -- Languages -- Semantics
South Asia -- Languages -- Morphology
Subject South Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Badenoch, Nathan, editor.
Choksi, Nishaant, editor.
LC no. 2020029416
ISBN 9789004439153
9004439153