The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia : A Comprehensive Guide.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1 The languages, their histories, and their genetic classification -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Indo-Iranian -- 1.3 Indo-Aryan -- 1.3.1 Old and Middle Indo-Aryan -- 1.3.2 Modern Indo-Aryan -- 1.4 Iranian -- 1.5 Nûristânî -- 1.6 Dravidian -- 1.7 Austroasiatic languages of South Asia -- 1.8 The Tibeto-Burman languages of South Asia -- 1.9 Daic or Tai languages of South Asia -- 1.10 Language isolates -- 1.10.1 Andaman languages -- 1.10.2 The Burushaski language -- 1.10.3 Kusunda -- 1.10.4 Nihali -- 2 Contact and convergence -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Overall South Asia -- 2.3 Ancient contact, convergence, substratum influence -- 2.3.1 Introduction -- 2.3.2 Lexical evidence -- 2.3.3 Structural features and geographical evidence -- 2.3.4 Post-Vedic contact linguistics -- 2.4 The Northwest -- 2.4.1 Pre-1947 convergences -- 2.4.1.1 Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram-Kohistan-Kashmir region -- 2.4.1.2 Baluchistan -- 2.4.2 Post-1947 convergence in Pakistan and Afghanistan -- 2.4.2.1 Recent convergence and divergence in Pakistan -- 2.4.2.2 Recent developments in Afghanistan -- 2.5 Contact and convergence in the Northeast -- 2.6 Other contact, regional and local -- 2.7 English and South Asian languages -- 3 Phonetics and phonology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Phonetics · Peri Bhaskararao -- 3.3 Phonology and phrasal prosody -- 4 Morphology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Coverage -- 4.3 Typological issues -- 4.4 Theoretical issues -- 4.5 Morphosyntactic issues -- 4.5.1 Agent marking -- 4.5.2 Object marking -- 4.5.3 Agreement marking -- 5 Syntax and semantics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Formal syntax -- 5.2.1 An overview of generative syntactic work and reference resources in South Asian languages -- 5.2.2 Minimalist approaches to South Asian syntax -- 5.2.3 Generative approaches to Pashto syntax.

5.3 Cognitive Linguistics · -- 5.4 Morphosyntactic typology -- 5.4.1 Oblique Experiencers and Oblique Subjects -- 5.4.2 Complex Verbs -- 5.4.2.1 Introduction -- 5.4.2.2 Expanded verbs in Dravidian -- 5.4.2.3 Compound verbs in Indo-Aryan -- 5.4.3 Finite and nonfinite subordination -- 5.5.1 Evidentiality and mirativity in Iranian, Nuristani, Indo-Aryan, Burushaski, and Dravidian -- 5.5.2 Evidentiality and Mirativity in Tibeto-Burman -- 6 Sociolinguistics -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Language endangerment and documentation -- 6.2.1 The situation in India and adjacent areas -- 6.2.2 Pakistan and Afghanistan -- 6.3 Language policy and planning in South Asia -- 6.4 Diglossia -- 6.4.1 Diglossia in Bangla -- 6.4.2 Diglossia in Dravidian languages -- 6.5 South Asian pidgins and creoles -- 6.6 South Asian languages in diaspora -- 7 Indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Indo-Aryan grammatical traditions (Sanskrit and Prakrit) -- 7.3 Tamil and Dravidian grammatical traditions -- 8 Applications of modern technology to South Asian languages -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Localization -- 8.3 Language and linguistic resources -- 8.3.1 Corpus and lexical resources -- 8.3.1.1 Early work -- 8.3.1.2 India -- 8.3.1.2.1 History and methodologies -- 8.3.1.2.2 Sanskrit -- 8.3.1.3 Nepal -- 8.3.1.4 Pakistan -- 8.3.1.5 Bangladesh -- 8.3.2 Treebanking - Hindi/Urdu -- 8.4 Applications -- 9 Writing systems -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 General historical and analytical -- 9.3 Recent script-related research -- 9.4 Perso-Arabic adaptations for South Asian languages -- 9.5 New research areas and desiderata -- 10 Sources and Resources -- Language index -- Subject index.

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