Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editor’s Introduction VII
3. Contents XI
4. Master List of Abbreviations XIII
5. Part One. Indo-Aryan Languages
6. Sanskrit 3
7. Comparative Indo-Aryan 36
8. Middle Indo-Aryan 46
9. Hindi 55
10. Bibliographical Review of Bengali Studies 85
11. Marathi 99
12. Gujarati 105
13. Oriya and Assamese 122
14. Panjabi 153
15. Sindhi 201
16. Sinhalese 235
17. Nepali and Pahari 249
18. Urdu 277
19. Kashmiri and Other Dardic Languages 284
20. Part Two. Dravidian Languages
21. Comparative Dravidian Studies 309
22. The Non-Literary Dravidian Languages 334
23. Tamil 343
24. Malayalam 372
25. Telugu 382
26. Kannada 394
27. Part Three. Other Families
28. Munda and Non-Munda Austroasiatic Languages 411
29. The Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia 431
30. Iranian Languages 450
31. Part Four Linguistics and Related Fields in South Asia
32. Pāṇini 481
33. Sanskrit Philosophy of Language 499
34. General Linguistics in South Asia 532
35. Toward a Phonological Typology of the Indian Linguistic Area 543
36. Official Language Problems and Policies in South Asia 578
37. Sociolinguistics in South Asia 597
38. The Semantics of Kinship in South India and Ceylon 607
39. English in South Asia 627
40. Linguistic Studies in Pakistan 679
41. Linguistics in Ceylon, (I) 736
42. Linguistics in Ceylon, (II): Tamil 752
43. Biographical Notes 760
44. Index of Languages 771
45. Index of Names 789