Description
Book SynopsisExpressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman) and covers domains in semantics, morphosyntax, and phonotactics. It also includes studies from literature and film that show how expressive form and function are embedded in performative contexts. Finally, the volume also contains first of its kind data from several small endangered languages from the region. Proposing an innovative methodology that combines structural and semiotic analysis, the volume advances a more holistic understanding of areal phenomena that departs from previous studies of the South Asian linguistic area.
Trade Review"Expressives are the strongest examples of lexicon emoting a culture of a community and warrant to be recognized as constituting a separate grammatical category. [...] There is no grammatical category in human language that has such powerful emotive powers. One must read this volume to believe it." ~ Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2021, DOI: 10.1111/jola.12350)
Table of ContentsForeword List of Maps, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi Part 1 Grammatical Investigations 1 Sticky Semantics Expressive Meaning in Mundari Nathan Badenoch 2 Phonotactics and Sound Symbolism in Bangla Masayuki Onishi and Durga Pada Datta 3 Expanding the Template of Reduplication in Mundari Toshiki Osada, Madhu Purti and Nathan Badenoch 4 Expressive Form and Function in Solega Aung Si Part 2 Diachronic Perspectives 5 Expressives in Sangam, Medieval, and Modern Tamil Vasu Renganathan 6 Etymological Sources of Kurux Expressives Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon Part 3 Expressives in Poetic and Performative Contexts 7 Expressives in Hindi Film Songs Nishaant Choksi 8 Expressives in Bangla Literature Pabitra Sarkar 9 Expressives in the Santali Poetry of Sadhu Ramchand Murmu Ganesh Murmu, Sarada Prasad Kisku and Nishaant Choksi Part 4 Descriptive Sketches 10 Sora Expressives Gregory Anderson and Opino Gomango 11 Birhor Expressives Bikram Jora 12 Duhumbi Expressives Timotheus Bodt 13 Nihali Expressives An Isolate in Its Regional Context Shailendra Mohan Index
