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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Dravidian"”.
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Origin and Development of the Indo-Aryan Quotatives and Complementizers: An Areal Approach
… be attributed to outside influences (Persian and Dravidian, respectively) or internal developments. I determine that Persian influence is responsible for the spread of complementizers throughout much of Indo-Aryan. However, the initial development of relative complementizers and deictic quotatives …
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The morphosemantics and morphosyntax of the Malayalam verb
… and the perfect. It uses data primarily from the Dravidian language Malayalam to explore these questions. Past work on tense and aspect in Dravidian languages (Amritavalli & Jayaseelan 2005) has claimed that Malayalam, along with the other Dravidian languages, is tenseless. This dissertation, …
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Stress and vowel harmony in Telugu
… presents a study of vowel harmony in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Vowel harmony in this language is manifest primarily in the form of vowel alternations in paradigms triggered by suffixes. I present a robust factual generalization that holds true of alternations in different types of nominal …
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Syntax and Semantics of the Passive Construction in Selected South Asian Languages
… Marathi, Nepali, Kashmiri, Punjabi, and one Dravidian language - Kannada). The major points of focus are as follows: (1) Chapter II describes, compares, and contrasts the linguistic features of the passive construction in the above languages. (2) Chapter III examines the adequacy of the …
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Language Policies in the European Union and India: A Comparative Study
… include the hills-valley divide (Manipur), the Dravidian-Aryan divide (Tamil Nadu), and the autochthonous-allochthonous divide (EU) among others. Language policies have often been described as ‘multilayered’, and COD offer a systematic approach to exploring these multiple layers. Overall, the …
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Case, agreement and word order : issues in the syntax and acquisition of Taml
… dissertation focuses 011 the syntax of Tamil, a Dravidian language. The main issues discussed in the dissertation may be broadly classified into (a) those concerning the TP-external structure and (b) those concerning the TP-external structure. The aim is to provide as complete an account as …
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Cultural production and identity in colonial and post-colonial Madras, India
… sources for the former are primarily from the Dravidian style classical Hindu temple architecture of the region while the latter is inspired by the local and regional traditions. Paradoxically, the same or similar forms manifest opposing ideals, and represent colonial and post-colonial …
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Social inequality, reproductive health and child development : a Chhattisgarh village study
… geography at the confluence of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian cultural streams has interesting insights to offer for social theory into the determinants of female power. Important elements of northern kinship based on exogamous principles, theoretically less favourable for female autonomy than …
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Structure of Narratives: Applying Propp's folktale morphology to entertainment-education films
… of South Africa. And, Mirugam conveyed a Tamil, Dravidian-centric experience of HIV/AIDS, specifically within the confines of poor and uneducated working class people. Due to these varied cultural circumstances the films conveyed some unique health information. While there were some differences …
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
"In this thesis I examine a variety of linguistic elements which involve ``alternative'' semantic values---a class arguably including focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions---and the connections between these elements. This study focusses on the analysis of such elements in Sinhala, …