The Dravidian Language Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-118
Author(s):  
K. Venkateswarlu
Keyword(s):  
Language Family ◽  
Dravidian Language

scholarly journals Morphological Analysis of the Dravidian Language Family

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar ◽  
Ryan Cotterell ◽  
Lluís Padró ◽  
Antoni Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Dravidian Language

Verb + verb sequences in Dravidian

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-353
Author(s):  
Sanford B. Steever
Keyword(s):  
Language Family ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Compound Verbs ◽  
Verb Inflections ◽  
Dravidian Language ◽  
Compound Verb

This chapter analyzes compound verb constructions in the Dravidian language family. Drawing on data from all four subgroups, two broad constructions emerge: auxiliary compound verbs and lexical compound verbs. The former provide complex morphosyntactic vehicles for verbal categories or combinations of categories not found in the simple verb inflections of a language; the latter provide similar vehicles to encode lexical meanings not found in simple lexemes of the language. A third construction, reduplicated compounds, is also analyzed. A brief comparison in made between the pattern of these verb + verb sequences in Dravidian and patterns found in other language families.

scholarly journals A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 171504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishnupriya Kolipakam ◽  
Fiona M. Jordan ◽  
Michael Dunn ◽  
Simon J. Greenhill ◽  
Remco Bouckaert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Central India ◽  
Phylogenetic Study ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lexical Data ◽  
Dravidian Language

The Dravidian language family consists of about 80 varieties (Hammarström H. 2016 Glottolog 2.7 ) spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries (Steever SB. 1998 In The Dravidian languages (ed. SB Steever), pp. 1–39: 1). Neither the geographical origin of the Dravidian language homeland nor its exact dispersal through time are known. The history of these languages is crucial for understanding prehistory in Eurasia, because despite their current restricted range, these languages played a significant role in influencing other language groups including Indo-Aryan (Indo-European) and Munda (Austroasiatic) speakers. Here, we report the results of a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of cognate-coded lexical data, elicited first hand from native speakers, to investigate the subgrouping of the Dravidian language family, and provide dates for the major points of diversification. Our results indicate that the Dravidian language family is approximately 4500 years old, a finding that corresponds well with earlier linguistic and archaeological studies. The main branches of the Dravidian language family (North, Central, South I, South II) are recovered, although the placement of languages within these main branches diverges from previous classifications. We find considerable uncertainty with regard to the relationships between the main branches.

Interpreting ‘Front’: Perception of Space in Bengali and Kannada

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anirban Sarkar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cognition ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Dravidian Language

This paper is concerned with the nature of ‘front’ along the front/back axis. The languages taken up for the study are Bengali, a language belonging to Indo-Aryan language family, and Kannada, a language belonging to Dravidian language family. The terms for denoting ‘front’ for Bengali are ‘samne’ and ‘aage’ and for Kannada are ‘yeduru’ and ‘munde’. Experience and embodiment of spatial arrangements play an important role in the spatial cognition, and language use takes into account the different points of view. Many factors such as proximity, vantage point, specificity, etc. play an important role in describing a given situation. It is worth mentioning that the choice of the usages of the words for denoting ‘front’ as location or direction has been seen as different in some situations and overlapping in others. The data were collected using a questionnaire which aimed to elicit the expressions for ‘front’ for the entities, whose relationship is described in terms of Figure and Ground (Talmy, 1983; 2000), from the speakers of both the above mentioned languages, and then analysed for the factors involved.

scholarly journals Language Family Engineering with Product Lines of Multi-level Models

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan de Lara ◽  
Esther Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Modelling Languages ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractModelling is an essential activity in software engineering. It typically involves two meta-levels: one includes meta-models that describe modelling languages, and the other contains models built by instantiating those meta-models. Multi-level modelling generalizes this approach by allowing models to span an arbitrary number of meta-levels. A scenario that profits from multi-level modelling is the definition of language families that can be specialized (e.g., for different domains) by successive refinements at subsequent meta-levels, hence promoting language reuse. This enables an open set of variability options given by all possible specializations of the language family. However, multi-level modelling lacks the ability to express closed variability regarding the availability of language primitives or the possibility to opt between alternative primitive realizations. This limits the reuse opportunities of a language family. To improve this situation, we propose a novel combination of product lines with multi-level modelling to cover both open and closed variability. Our proposal is backed by a formal theory that guarantees correctness, enables top-down and bottom-up language variability design, and is implemented atop the MetaDepth multi-level modelling tool.

In search of the origin of na in Mavea

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-716
Author(s):  
Valérie Guérin
Keyword(s):  
Common Noun ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Structural Requirements ◽  
Structure Preserving ◽  
Syntactic Change

Reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic common noun marker *na are found throughout the Oceanic language family. In Mavea, there is a morpheme na but it no longer partakes in the determiner system and is best analyzed synchronically as a preposition. This paper argues that today’s preposition is a reflex of the Proto-Oceanic common noun marker *na. Locative constructions are shown to provide a critical context conducive to the reanalysis of *na. Reanalysis has long been established as a mechanism of syntactic change, yet the factors motivating it remain a matter for debate. The dominant view is that reanalysis is driven by pragmatic factors. A rarely voiced view is that it is driven by structural requirements. The data adduced in this paper lend support to a model of syntactic change which can be structure-preserving in nature.

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