ISBN9789004347656 (hardcover acidfree paper)
9004347658 (hardcover acidfree paper)
ISBN (error code)9789004347663 (electronic book)
Author/Editorby Masato Kobayashi, Bablu Tirkey.
Note (Text Language)Text mostly in English, with examples in Kurux.
Note (Content)The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon' by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping.00Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.
Note (Bibliography)Includes bibliographical references and indexes.