Introduction to Dravidian Lingustics
Surya P. Mittal
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Dear Dr. Jonsson,
Listed below are a few titles which may be of interest to you and other
members on the list:
1. Andronov, M.S. (Mikhail Sergeevich), 1931-
Dravidian languages / M.S. Andronov. -- 1st Indian ed.
-- Vijayawada : Visalaandhra Pub. House, 1977.
5, 184 p. ; 22 cm.
"First edition, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, 1970."
Bibliography: p. 180-181.
"Publication no. 860."
1. Dravidian languages. 2. Grammar, Comparative and
general.
$1.00 (ubd.) DK-25586
2. Caldwell, Robert, 1814-1891.
A comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian
family of languages / Robert Caldwell. -- New Delhi :
Asian Educational Services, 1987.
xl, 640 p. ; 22 cm.
Caption title: Dravidian comparative grammar.
Reprint. Originally published: 3rd ed. / revised and
edited by J.L. Wyatt, T. Ramakrishna Pillai. London :
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1913.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Dravidian languages--Grammar, Comparative.
$16.20 DK-53559
3. Dravidic studies. -- Delhi : Sri Satguru Publica-
tions, 1987.
14, 51, 63 p. ; 23 cm. -- (Sri Garib Dass oriental
series ; no. 57)
Reprint. (1st work). Originally published: The
demostrative bases / by C.P. Venkatarama Ayyar. Madras
: Madras University, 1923. (Dravidic studies ; 1)
Reprint. (2nd work). Originally published: The pronouns
and pronominal termination of the first person in
Dravidian / by K.V. Subbayya. Madras : Madras Univer-
sity. (Dravidic studies ; 2)
Reprint. (3rd work). Originally published: The
Sanskritic element in the vocabularies of the Dravidian
languages / by S. Anavaratarinayakam Pillai. Madras :
Madras University. (Dravidic studies ; 3)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 81-7030-115-7
1. Dravidian languages.
$5.80 DK-52543
4. Emeneau, Murray Barnson, 1904-
Dravidian studies : selected papers / by M.B. Emeneau ;
introduction by Bh. Krishnamurti. -- 1st ed. -- Delhi :
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994.
xxxi, 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
On Dravidian linguistics.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes index.
ISBN 81-208-0858-4
1. Dravidian languages.
$45.80 DK-88572
5. Hiremath, R. C. (Rudrayya Chandrayya), 1922-
The genesis and growth of Dravidian R.C. Hiremath. --
Trivandrum : Dravidian Linguistics Association, 1984.
vii, 225 p. ; 23 cm. -- (Publication / Dravidian Lin-
guistics Association ; no. 39)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Dravidian languages. 2. Dravidians. 3. Indic lan-
guages. 4. Civilization, Dravidian. 5. Civilization,
Indic.
$5.00 DK-39335
6. Levi, Sylvain, 1863-1935.
Pre-Aryan and pre-Dravidian in India / by Sylvain Levi,
Jean Przyluski, and Jules Bloch ; translated from
French by Prabodh Chandra Bagchi. -- [Calcutta] :
University of Calcutta, 1975.
xxix, 184, [2] p. : map ; 21 cm.
First published in 1929.
Includes bibliographical references, index, and errata.
Contents: Przyluski, J. Non-Aryan loans in Indo-Aryan.
-- Bloch, J. Sanskrit and Dravidian. -- Levi, S. Pre-
Aryan and pre-Dravidian in India.
1. Austroasiatic languages. 2. Indo-Aryan languages. 3.
Dravidian languages. 4. India, Ancient--History.
$1.30 DK-9081
7. Madhivanan, R., 1936-
Indus script among Dravidian speakers / R. Madhivanan ;
general editor, N. Mahalingam. -- 1st ed. -- Madras :
International Society for the Investigation of Ancient
Civilizations, 1995.
109 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 21
cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109).
1. Indus script. 2. Inscriptions, Indic. 3. Indus civi-
lization. 4. India--History.
$6.30 (ubd.) DK-99220
8. Madhivanan, R., 1936-
Indus script Dravidian / R. Madhivanan. -- 1st ed. --
Madras : Tamil Chanror Peravai, 1995.
286 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes decipherment of the Indus seals and inscrip-
tions with transliteration in English and Tamil.
"Tamil Chanror Peravai publication-2"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
1. Indus script. 2. Dravidian languages. 3. Inscrip-
tions, Indic. 4. Seals (Numismatics)--India.
$25.00 DK-99367
9. Mallassery, S. Radhakrishnan (Sreedharan
Radhakrishnan), 1954-
Postpositions in a Dravidian language : a transforma-
tional analysis of Malayalam / S. Radhakrishnan
Mallassery. -- 1st ed. -- New Delhi, India : Mittal
Publications, 1994.
x, 348 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
English and Malayalam (Malayalam in roman).
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kerala, 1982.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-343).
Includes index.
ISBN 81-7099-574-4
1. Malayalam language--Postpositions. 2. Malayalam
language--Grammar, Comparative.
$37.50 DK-91994
10. Proceedings of the First International Seminar on
Dravidian Linguistics and the Fourteenth All India Con-
ference of Dravidian Linguistics / edited by B.
Gopinathan Nair. -- Trivandrum, S. India : Interna-
tional School of Dravidian Linguistics, 1989.
vii, 265 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. -- (Publication /
Dravidian Linguistics Association ; no. 42).
Imprint on t.p. verso: Trivandrum : Dravidian Linguis-
tics Association.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Dravidian languages--Congresses. 2. Indic
languages--Congresses. 3. Linguistics--Congresses.
$8.30 DK-62588
11. Proceedings of the Thirteenth All India Conference
of Dravidian Linguistics / edited by K. Rangan. -- 1st
ed. -- Thanjavur : Tamil University, 1986.
xxv, 471 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. -- (Tamil University publi-
cation ; no. 67)
Two papers in Tamil.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Dravidian languages--Congresses. 2. Indic
languages--Congresses.
$9.30 DK-50927
12. Rajannan, Busnagi, 1929-
Dravidian languages and literatures : a contribution
toward a bibliography of books in English and in a few
other European languages, on, about, and translated
from the Dravidian languages / compiled by Busnagi
Rajannan. -- 1st ed. -- Madurai : Madurai University,
1973.
xv, 279, [4] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
1. Dravidian languages--Bibliography. 2. Dravidian
literature--Bibliography. 3. Bibliography.
$1.00 DK-3343
13. Ramaiah, L. S. (Lam Seeta), 1937-
General and comparative Dravidian languages and lin-
guistics / L.S. Ramaiah. -- Madras : T.R. Publications,
1994.
xx, 173 p. : map ; 25 cm. -- (International bibliogra-
phy of Dravidian languages and linguistics ; v. 1).
Includes indexes.
ISBN 81-85427-25-9
1. Dravidian languages--Bibliography.
$25.00 DK-86313
14. Rangaswamy, R. (Rajoo), 1934-
Comparative Dravidian / R. Rangaswamy. -- 1st ed. --
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu : Kamalam Rangaswamy, 1995.
154, [3] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
English and Tamil (Tamil in roman).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [156-157]).
1. Comparative linguistics. 2. Dravidian languages--
Grammar, Comparative.
$3.80 (ubd.) DK-99249
15. Sambasiva Rao, G. (Gali), 1941-
A comparative study of Dravidian noun derivatives / G.
Sambasiva Rao. -- New Delhi : Bahri Publications, 1991.
118 p. ; 23 cm. -- (Series in Indian languages and lin-
guistics ; 19).
Running title: A comparative study of Dravidian deriva-
tives.
Bibliography: p. [112]-114.
ISBN 81-7034-094-2
1. Dravidian languages--Suffixes and prefixes. 2.
Dravidian languages--Noun phrase.
$8.30 DK-73339
16. Steever, Sanford B.
Selected papers on Tamil and Dravidian linguistics /
Sanford B. Steever. -- 1st ed. -- Madurai : Muttu
Patippakam, 1981.
7, 191 p. ; 22 cm.
Running title: Selected papers.
Morphology and syntax in Dravidian languages, with
reference to Tamil.
Some previously published.
Bibliography: p. 184-191.
Without errata.
1. Linguistics. 2. Tamil language--Grammar. 3.
Dravidian languages--Grammar.
$2.10 (ubd.) DK-31956
17. Studies in Dravidian and general linguistics : a
festschrift for Bh. Krishnamurti / editors, B. Lakshmi
Bai, B. Ramakrishna Reddy. -- Hyderabad, India : Centre
of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Osmania University,
1991.
xix, 530 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., 6 maps ; 25 cm.
-- (Osmania University publications in linguistics ; 6).
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, b. 1928, former Professor of
Linguistics, Osmania University; contributed articles.
"Published works of Bh. Krishnamurti": p. xi-xvi.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Linguistics. 2. Dravidian languages. 3. Krish-
namurti, Bh. (Bhadriraju), 1928-
$29.20 DK-74208
18. Studies in Dravidian linguistics / S.
Vaidyanathan, editor. -- Patiala : Dept. of
Anthropological Linguistics, Punjabi University,
c 1980- c 1982.
2 v. (xvii, iii, 592 p.) ; 22 x 29 cm. -- (Pakha sanjam
; v. 10 & 15).
Cover title.
Contributed articles.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Dravidian languages. 2. Dravidian literature.
$4.20 (ubd.) (per set) DK-33832
19. Suvarchala, B., 1960-
Central Dravidian comparative mophology / B. Suvar-
chala. -- New Delhi : Navrang, 1992.
235 p. ; 25 cm.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Osmania University, 1991.
Bibliography: p. [228]-229.
Includes index.
ISBN 81-7013-101-4
1. Dravidian languages--Morphology.
$20.80 DK-79664
20. Swaminatha Aiyar, R.
Dravidian theories / R. Swaminatha Aiyar. -- Delhi :
Motilal Banarsidass, 1987.
xlvii, 574 p. ; 23 cm.
Reissue. Originally published: 1st ed. Madras : Madras
Law Journal Office, 1975.
On the grammar of Dravidian languages; essays and lectures.
Bibliography: p. 559-568.
Includes errata and index.
ISBN 81-208-0331-0
1. Dravidian languages--Grammar.
$12.50 DK-57522
21. Zvelebil, Kamil V., 1927-
Dravidian linguistics : an introduction / Kamil V.
Zvelebil. -- Pondicherry : Pondicherry Institute of
Linguistics and Culture, c 1990.
xxvi, 156 p. : map ; 23 cm. -- (PILC publication ; 3).
With particular reference to Tamil language.
Bibliography: p. [124]-150.
Includes index.
ISBN 81-85452-01-6
1. Tamil language. 2. Dravidian languages.
$14.20 (ubd.) DK-68086
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Yours sincerely,
Surya P. Mittal
surya at pobox.com
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Mr B.Philip.Jonsson [Seeker of Useless Knowledge] wrote:
>
> Dear Indologists,
>
> can anybody recommend me some good English-language general introduction to
> Dravidian Linguistics? I would also be happy to know which are the most
> controversial questions within the field; is e.g. the link with Elamite
> generally accepted. Note that I know virtually nothing about the subject,
> nor do I know any of the languages concerned.
>
> Thanks
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