Amrita Collected Papers by A M Ghatage

SR No.: 006968
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 530
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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Linguistics
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morphological descriptions of Marathi and Burling's description of Garo is in the press. We know that similar discription of Tamil, the Bāngru dialect of Hindi are ready and Assamese is being worked out at the Gauhati University. Dr. Krisnamurti of Andhra University has prepared an exhaustive historical and descriptive study of Telugu verbs, and other studies of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Austric languages are in preparation. Prof. S. Bhattacharya has given us a brief sketch of a new Dravidian language called Ollāri and we have an interesting description of the Toda language of the Nilgiris from the pen of Dr. Emeneau. The Comparative Dictionary of Dravidian Languages by Emeneau and Burrow is ready and nearing completion in print and will be soon available to all, thus giving a new impetus to the study of comparative Dravidian linguistics. I may also mention a brief but lucid exposition of comparative Dravidian phonology which Dr. Emeneau prepared for the Summer School of Linguistics at Coimbatore. The Annamalai University has also mimeographed the numerous scattered articles on Dravidian linguistics of the late L. V. Ramaswami Ayyar, which are valuable but difficult to get.
10. Recently a kind of survey of major Indian languages is published from Madras under the title 'The Languages of India - a kaleidoscopic survey edited by a group of three scholars with contributions from a large number of writers. While fully realising the importance of having brief sketches of different Indian languages, their scripts and their contribution to literature for a better appreciation of regional languages and literatures, the work is anything but satisfactory. Many of the chapters are written by persons whose competence in linguistics remains, at best, doubtful. The book by its numerous inaccuracies is likely to produce more harm than good. If anything, the work makes a more reliable survey of modern Indian languages a far greater necessity than ever before.
11. Of the numerous aspects of modern linguistics, we find Dr. Ganeshsundaram's work 'Distribution Characteristics of Speech elements in Tāmi! (1959) touching on a neglected side of linguistic studies, while quite a different aspect has been dealt with in great detail by Dr. Devasthali in his work 'Mimāṁsa, the Vakya-Šāstra of Ancient India.' The Dhvani-vijñāna of Prof. Dhall gives a detailed account of phonetic theory in Hindi and is a welcome addition to phonetic studies written in Indian languages.
12. Before I close this brief and inadequate survey of work done in this field, let me refer to two publications of recent dates. We are glad to have a new Oriental journal published from Holland called 'Indo-Iranian