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    Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia by Williams, Jeffrey P.;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 31 August 2020

    • ISBN 9781138291157
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages322 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 453 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 10 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white; 6 Line drawings, black & white; 27 Tables, black & white
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    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.

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    Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Specifically, the contributors to this volume examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions and perceptions of speakers. These forms, often referred to expressives, remain relatively undocumented, until now.



    It is clear from the evidence on contextualized language use that the grammatically artistic usage of these forms enriches and enlivens both every day and ritualized genres of discourse. The contributors to this volume provide grammatical and sociolinguistic documentation through a typological introduction to the diversity of expressive forms in the languages of South Asia.



    This book is suitable for students and researchers in South Asian Languages, and language families of the following; Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic.

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    Table of Contents:


    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 Iraṭṭaik 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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