{"product_id":"expressives-in-the-south-asian-linguistic-area-9789004431065","title":"Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpressives 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210801242455,"sku":"9789004431065","price":165.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expressives-in-the-south-asian-linguistic-area-9789004431065","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}