Language Variation in South Asia

by William Bright

South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian language cover a broad range of topics in South Asian linguistics. The essays address social dialect, structural borrowing, areal linguistics, the relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0009Y8IEC
• ISBN13: 9780195063653
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"