(Ebook) Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia 1st Edition by Fran Southworth ISBN 0203412915 9780203412916

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ISBN 10: 0203412915 
ISBN 13: 9780203412916
Author: Fran Southworth

This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particular the Indus Valley civilization, its links with neighbouring regions and its implications for social history. Each type of linguistic data is put into its socio-historical context. Consequently, the book is both a description of the unique methodology 'linguistic archaeology' and a treatment of South Asian linguistic data.

(Ebook) Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia 1st Table of contents:

1 The Scope of Linguistic Archaeology
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Historical-comparative linguistics
1.21 Assumptions
1.22 Types of inferences in historical-comparative linguistics
1.3 Linguistic palaeontology
1.31 Assumptions
1.32 Inferences in linguistic palaeontology
1.4 Sociolinguistics
1.41 Assumptions
1.42 Inferences from sociolinguistics
1.5 Glottochronology
1.6 Philology
1.7 Correlating linguistic and archaeological evidence
1.8 Conclusion
1.9 Summary
Notes
2 The South Asian Linguistic Scene
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Indo-Aryan
2.21 Old Indo-Aryan (OIA)
2.22 Middle Indo-Aryan (MIA)
2.23 Modern Indo-Aryan (NIA)
2.24 Chronology of Indo-Aryan
2.3 Iranian
2.31 Kafiri/Nuristani
2.4 Dravidian
2.41 Subgroupings of Dravidian
2.42 Dating
2.5 Munda and Austro-Asiatic
2.6 Tibeto-Burman (Sino-Tibetan)18
2.7 Other languages
2.8 The sociolinguistic situation in ancient India
2.81 Introduction
2.82 Linguistic variation in Old Indo-Aryan
2.83 Diglossia
2.84 Other languages
2.9 Summary
Notes
3 Prehistoric Languages of South Asia
3.1 Summary of previous work
3.2 Prehistoric languages of South Asia
3.21 Munda and Austro-Asiatic (AA)
3.22 Dravidian
3.23 Other sources of lexical borrowing
3.24 Sources of the OIA lexicon
3.3 Structural evidence
3.31 Phonological convergence
3.32 Syntactic influence (for theoretical background see 4.26)
3.4 Conclusions
3.5 Summary
Appendix: possible Dravidian borrowings in Proto-Indo-Iranian
Notes
4 The Social Context of Linguistic Convergence*
4.1 Introduction
4.11 Definitions
4.2 Intensity of language contact
4.21 Correlations in the linguistic data
4.22 Lexical convergence
4.23 The morpho-lexical continuum
4.24 Quantum of lexical diffusion
4.25 Phonological convergence
4.26 Grammatical convergence
4.27 Linguistic correlations
4.28 Linguistic diffusion and the social conditions of language contact
4.29 Inferences about intensity of contact
4.3 Range or extent of language contact
4.31 The convergence continuum
4.32 “Native” vs “non-native” speakers
4.33 Inferences about range of contact
4.4 Models of linguistic diffusion
4.5 Summary
Notes
5 The Grierson Hypothesis Revisited Subgroups of Indo-Aryan
5.0 Introduction: the problem of subgrouping in Indo-Aryan
5.1 The Grierson hypothesis
5.11 Grierson's view and Chatterji's critique
5.12 Grierson's evidence: past forms in -l-
5.13 Diagnostic status of the -l- past
5.2 Additional evidence
5.21 Evidence from verb morphology
5.22 Phonological evidence
5.23 Lexical evidence
5.24 Glottochronology
5.3 Conclusions
5.4 Summary
Notes
6 Historical Implications of the Inner–Outer Hypothesis
6.0 Introduction
6.1 Compatibility of the Grierson hypothesis with the earlier linguistic history of Indo-Aryan
6.11 Dialects of the Ashokan inscriptions
6.12 East–West innovations
6.13 Other configurations
6.14 Innovations restricted to the eastern region
6.15 Ashokan dialects (summary)
6.16 Vedic dialects
6.2 Summary of the linguistic evidence
6.21 Further evidence of linguistic links between eastern and southwestern Indo-Aryan
6.3 Other evidence
6.31 Textual evidence
6.32 Textual–archaeological correlations
6.33 Archaeology and language movement
6.4 Conclusions
6.41 Preliminaries
6.42 A reconstruction of the prehistory of outer Indo-Aryan
6.5 Summary
Notes
7 Palaeobotanical and Etymological Evidence for the Prehistory of South Asian Crop Plants
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Historical and etymological background of South Asian crops and crop names
7.11 Pre-Harappan/Early Harappan (before 2500 Bce): items A1–A6
7.12 The Mature Harappan period (2500–2000 Bce): items B1–B9
7.13 Late Harappan/Post-Harappan (2000–1700 Bce): items C1–C13
7.14 Other South Asian crop names (items D1–D25)
7.2 Historical implications
7.21 Indo-Aryan and Dravidian
7.22 Austro-Asiatic languages and Southeast Asia
7.23 South Asia and Africa
7.24 South Asia and the West
7.3 Summary
Notes
8 Some Aspects of Dravidian Prehistory based on Vocabulary Reconstruction
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Examination of proto-vocabulary
8.20 Introduction
8.21 The problem of unattested words in the non-literary Dravidian languages
8.22 The problem of the relationship between Central Dravidian (CD) and South Dravidian (SD)
8.23 Reliability levels of PD and PSD reconstructions
8.24 Early OIA loanwords in Dravidian
8.3 Prehistoric inferences based on the reconstructed vocabularies
8.31 Habitat
8.32 Agriculture
8.33 Political and socioeconomic relations
8.34 Material culture and technology
8.35 Religion
8.36 Chronology
8.37 Proto-South Dravidian-1
8.38 Conclusion of the linguistic discussion
8.4 Where and when? Putting linguistics and archaeology together
8.5 Conclusions
8.6 Summary
Appendix A: vocabulary of Proto-Dravidian
Appendix B: Vocabulary of Proto-South Dravidian
Appendix C: Selected reconstructions in PSD1 (see 8.43)
A Sources of OIA loanwords
B Sources of words in languages outside of South Asia
Notes
9 Maharashtrian Place Names and the Question of a Dravidian Substratum
9.1 Introduction
9.11 Maharashtra: political divisions
9.12 Geography and prehistory
9.13 Structure of Marathi place names
9.2 Suffixes of probable Dravidian origin
9.21 Vali
9.22 Geographical distribution of -vali and variants
9.23 Vada/vadi
9.24 Other suffixes
9.3 Names occurring with the suffix -vali
9.4 Conclusions: Dravidian languages in Maharashtra
9.5 Beyond Maharashtra
9.6 Conclusions
9.7 Summary
Notes
10 Historical Linguistics and Archaeology in South Asia
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Summary of South Asian linguistic prehistory
10.21 Chronological overview
10.22 Linguistic prehistory by region
10.3 Historical linguistics and archaeology in South Asia

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