Author: Bright, William
Title: Language Variation in South Asia
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990. orig. cloth. xiv,169 pp, 21x14cm,. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Linguistic Change in Some Indian Caste Dialects; Sociolinguistic Variation & Language Change; Dravidian Metaphony; Language, Social Stratification & Cognitive Orientation; Complex Verbal Forms in Colloquial Tamil; Phonological Rules in Literary & Colloquial Kannada; Hindi Numerals;The Dravidian Enunciative Vowel; How Not To Decipher the Indus Valley Inscriptions; Archaeology, Linguistics, & Ancient Dravidian; Written & Spoken Language in South Asia.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Diglossia, Linguistics, South Asia, Dravidian, Tamil Language, Languages, India, Kannada, Sociolinguistics