LINGUIST List 21.2390 Fri May 28 2010 Books: Historical Linguistics/General Linguistics: Caldwell Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages: Caldwell Message 1: A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages: Caldwell Date: 15-May-2010 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages: Caldwell E-mail this message to a friend Title: A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 14 Published: 2010 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Author: Robert A Caldwell Paperback: ISBN: 9783895861352 Pages: 686 Price: Europe EURO 88.20 Abstract: The idioms which are included under the general term 'Dravidian', constitute the vernacular speech of the great majority of the inhabitants of Southern India. It is the object of the following work to examine and compare the grammatical principles and forms of the various Dravidian languages. In pursuing this object, it will be the writer's endeavor to point out everything which appears likely to throw any light on the question of the relation which the family of languages bears to the principal families or groups into which the languages of Europe and Asia have been divided (from the Introduction of the 3rd edition, 1913, London) Contents: Use of the Common Term 'Dravidian' Enumeration of Dravidian Languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Canarese, Tulu, Kudagu or Coorg, Tuda, Kôta, Gond, Khond or Ku, Oraon) Comparative Grammar: Part I : Sounds (Alphabet, system of sounds) Part II: Roots Part III: The Noun Part IV: The Numerals Part V: The Pronoun Part VI: The Verb Part VII: Glossarial Affinities This re-edition has been published as no. 14 in the LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) series (originally published 1913, 3rd edition, written in English). Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Dravidian Languages                             General Linguistics Language Family(ies): Dravidian Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=48432 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 28-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.