South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology

by K.V. Subbarao and Karumuri V. Subbarao

South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic typology of these languages and the high degree of syntactic convergence, with special reference to the notion of 'India as a linguistic area'. Several...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521861489
• ISBN13: 9780521861489
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"