REGULARITY OF NATIVIZATION OF EXOTICISMS: LOANWORDS FROM THE SOUTH-ASIAN LANGUAGES IN THE CURRENT ENGLISH PRESS

Retroflex consonant harmony: An areal feature in South Asia

Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics ◽

10.1515/jsall-2015-0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paul Arsenault

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

South Asian ◽

The South ◽

Long Distance ◽

Consonant Harmony ◽

Northern Half ◽

Historical Comparative ◽

Asian Languages

AbstractRetroflexion is a well-known areal feature of South Asia. Most South Asian languages, regardless of their genetic affiliation, contrast retroflex consonants with their non-retroflex dental counterparts. However, South Asian languages differ in the phonotactic restrictions that they place on retroflex consonants. This paper presents evidence that a large number of South Asian languages have developed a co-occurrence restriction on coronal obstruents that can be described as retroflex consonant harmony. In these languages, roots containing two non-adjacent coronal stops are primarily limited to those with two dentals (T…T) or two retroflexes (Ṭ…Ṭ), while those containing a combination of dental and retroflex stops are avoided (*T…Ṭ, *Ṭ…T). Historical-comparative evidence indicates that long-distance retroflex assimilation has contributed to the development of this phonotactic pattern (T…Ṭ → Ṭ…Ṭ). In addition, the paper demonstrates that the distribution of languages with and without retroflex consonant harmony is geographic in nature, not genetic. Retroflex consonant harmony is characteristic of most languages in the northern half of the South Asian subcontinent, regardless of whether they are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian or Munda (but not Tibeto-Burman). It is not characteristic of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages in the south. Thus, retroflex consonant harmony constitutes an areal feature within South Asia.

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Hindi/Urdu and Related Languages

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.33 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Miriam Butt

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

The South ◽

Case Marking ◽

Asian Languages ◽

Asian Language

This chapter provides an overview of ergativity in Hindi/Urdu and some related South Asian languages. Hindi/Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language that is part of a South Asian linguistic area or Sprachbund in which Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Munda languages have been in constant contact for thousands of years. Hindi/Urdu is the South Asian language that has been studied most in terms of case marking and ergativity. It thus serves as a basis for this handbook article. The distribution of ergativity in Hindi/Urdu and related languages is explored and discussed in the context of the South Asian linguistic area and with respect to various structural and semantic factors that have been adduced in the literature.

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From the Promise of Samosas to Hosting Bollywood Blowouts: Innovations in Reaching Out to the South Asian Community

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e502922014-002 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Rahul Sharma ◽

Razia Kosi ◽

Ulash Thakore-Dunlap ◽

Sushama Kirtikar

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

The South ◽

Asian Community ◽

South Asian Community

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Against All Odds: Pentecostal "Conversion" and Ethnic Identity (Re)construction of the South Asian Diaspora in Trinidad

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e625632011-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Teruyuki Tsuji

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

South Asian ◽

South Asian Diaspora ◽

The South ◽

Asian Diaspora

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Labels, Histories, Politics: Indian/South Asian Dance on the Global Stage

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/e0264287508000200 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 223-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

AVANTHI MEDURI

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

First Century ◽

Nation State ◽

The South ◽

Global Networks ◽

Indian Nation ◽

The 1950S ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Uk

In this paper, I discuss issues revolving around history, historiography, alterity, difference and otherness concealed in the doubled Indian/South Asian label used to describe Indian/South Asian dance genres in the UK. The paper traces the historical genealogy of the South Asian label to US, Indian and British contexts and describes how the South Asian enunciation fed into Indian nation-state historiography and politics in the 1950s. I conclude by describing how Akademi: South Asian Dance, a leading London based arts organisation, explored the ambivalence in the doubled Indian/South Asian label by renaming itself in 1997, and forging new local/global networks of communication and artistic exchange between Indian and British based dancers and choreographers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Heritage

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427234.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Omar Shaikh ◽

Stefano Bonino

Keyword(s):

Facial Expressions ◽

South Asian ◽

Online Video ◽

The South ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Public ◽

Video Footage ◽

Community Heritage ◽

Personal Accounts ◽

The Way

The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

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Alternate Futures after the South Asian Nuclear Tests: Pokhran as Prologue

Asian Survey ◽

10.1525/as.1999.39.3.01p0009n ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 504-524 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wade L. Huntley

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

The South ◽

Nuclear Tests

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National Unity; the South Asian Experience, edited by Milton Israel, New Delhi,National Unity; the South Asian Experience, edited by Milton Israel, New Delhi, Promilla & Co., 1983, xiv, 247 pp. $30.00 (U.S.)R,s . 150.00.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.19.1.144 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 144-145

Author(s):

Hugh Tinker

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

New Delhi ◽

The South ◽

National Unity

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(Un)Settling Imagined Lands

The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.36 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 174-208

Author(s):

Kakali Bhattacharya

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Asian Women ◽

South Asian Women ◽

The South ◽

Global North ◽

Research Praxis ◽

Global Agenda ◽

Academic Discourses

De/colonial methodologies and ontoepistemologies have gained popularity in the academic discourses emerging from Global North perspectives over the last decade. However, such perspectives often erase the broader global agenda of de/colonizing research, praxis, and activism that could be initiated and engaged with beyond the issue of land repatriation, as that is not the only agenda in de/colonial initiatives. In this chapter, I coin a framework, Par/Des(i), with six tenets, and offer three actionable methodological turns grounded in transnational de/colonial ontoepistemologies. I locate, situate, and trace the Par/Des(i) framework within the South Asian diasporic discourses and lived realities as evidenced from my empirical work with transnational South Asian women, my community, and my colleagues. Therefore, I offer possibilities of being, knowing, and enacting de/colonizing methodologies in our work, when engaging with the Par/Des(i) framework, with an invitation for an expanded conversation.

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