Studies in South Asian Linguistics, 9780195095210
Hardcover
This volume collects three decades’ worth of papers by the linguist James Gair. The papers reflect the range of his interests within South Asian languages.

Studies in South Asian Linguistics

sinhala and other south asian languages

  • Hardcover

    392 pages

  • Release Date

    23 July 1998

Summary

This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair’s interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical andareal linguistics, especially l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780195095210
ISBN-10:0195095219
Author:James W. Gair, Barbara C. Lust
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:Oxford University Press Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:392
Release Date:23 July 1998
Weight:748g
Dimensions:236mm x 163mm x 33mm
About The Author

James W. Gair

James W. Gair is at Cornell University.

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