Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. It examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions, and perceptions of speakers.
Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. It examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions, and perceptions of speakers.
Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Ethnology and Linguistics in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Texas Tech University. He is coeditor on three books (excluding the present contribution) and editor of another. His field-based research has been in the West Indies, Australia, Papua New Guinea and with Native American tribes in Oklahoma (USA) and Montagnard refugees in North Carolina and Texas (USA). He is presently writing a monograph entitled Expressives for Cambridge University Press.
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Table of Contents List of Figures & Tables List of Appendices List of Contributors 1 Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams Part I: South Asia in Comparative Perspective 2 Expressives as a Semantically Complex Category in South Asian Languages Anvita Abbi Part II: Expressives in the Indo-Aryan Sphere 3 Expressives in Hindi Annie Motaut 4 Nepali Expressive Morphology George van Driem Part III: Expressives in the Dravidian Family 5 Morphosyntax of Expressives in Malayalam P. Sreekumar & S. Prema 6 Expressive Morphology: A Study of Irä¿aik Kilavi in Tamil Vridhachalem Pillay Subramaniam Part IV: Expressive Morphology in Tibeto-Burman 7 Reduplication in Lamkang: Form, Function, Feeling Shobhana Chelliah, Evaline Blair, Melissa Robinson, Rex Khullar, and Sumshot Khular 8 The Functional Value of Formal Exuberance: Isomorphism and Expressive Intensification in Adi and Milang Yankee Modi and Mark W. Post Part V: The Tai Presence in South Asia 9 A Study of the Poetics of Tai Ahom Stephen Morey Part VI: The Munda World 10 Expressives in the Munda Languages Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora Index
Table of Contents List of Figures & Tables List of Appendices List of Contributors 1 Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams Part I: South Asia in Comparative Perspective 2 Expressives as a Semantically Complex Category in South Asian Languages Anvita Abbi Part II: Expressives in the Indo-Aryan Sphere 3 Expressives in Hindi Annie Motaut 4 Nepali Expressive Morphology George van Driem Part III: Expressives in the Dravidian Family 5 Morphosyntax of Expressives in Malayalam P. Sreekumar & S. Prema 6 Expressive Morphology: A Study of Irä¿aik Kilavi in Tamil Vridhachalem Pillay Subramaniam Part IV: Expressive Morphology in Tibeto-Burman 7 Reduplication in Lamkang: Form, Function, Feeling Shobhana Chelliah, Evaline Blair, Melissa Robinson, Rex Khullar, and Sumshot Khular 8 The Functional Value of Formal Exuberance: Isomorphism and Expressive Intensification in Adi and Milang Yankee Modi and Mark W. Post Part V: The Tai Presence in South Asia 9 A Study of the Poetics of Tai Ahom Stephen Morey Part VI: The Munda World 10 Expressives in the Munda Languages Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora Index
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