The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages

R. Amritavalli (M.A., Bangalore, M.A., Ph.D., Simon Fraser) retired in 2015 from The English & Foreign Languages University, where she held professorships in the schools of Language Education and Linguistics, and administrative positions including that of Vice Chancellor. Her linguistic research centres on syntactic categories and argument- and clause-structure in Kannada and Hindi. Her work on the acquisition of first and second languages in natural and instructional settings has contributed to the policy and practice of English Language Teaching in India. She is author of English in Deprived Circumstances: Maximising Learner Autonomy (2007), and co-author or Dravidian Syntax and Universal Grammar. Bhuvana Narasimhan is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She conducts corpus-based and experimental research in language acquisition, linguistics, and the language-cognition interface. Her topics of research include word meaning, argument structure,case-marking, and information structure from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective with a focus on Hindi and Tamil.

• 1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian LanguagesR. Amritavalli and Bhuvana Narasimhan 2. The Dravidian Languages: An OverviewSuresh Kolichala Section I. Formal Analyses 3. Dravidian Word Order and the Clausal PeripheriesK. A. Jayaseelan 4. Perspectival Anaphora: a Case Study From TamilSandhya Sundaresan 5. Allocutive Agreement in DravidianThomas McFadden 6. Fine-tuning the Dravidian Left Periphery: The Three "Complementisers" in TeluguRahul Balusu 7. Genericity, Quantification, and Modality in Malayalam: The Many Faces of -Um and -UnnuHany Babu M. T. 8. Gradability and Comparison in KannadaSindhu Herur and R. Amritavalli Section II. Traditional And Contemporary Language Studies 9. Correlative Structures in DravidianSanford Steever 10. Asyndetic Conditional Clauses in BrahuiMasato Kobayashi and Liaquat Ali 11. Verb base alternations in Betta KurumbaGail Coelho 12. Agreement in Malto Conjunctive ParticiplesMasato Kobayashi Section III. Language Processing, Acquisition, And Impairment 13. Psycholinguistic studies in Dravidian languagesBhuvana Narasimhan and Annu Kurian-Mathew 14. Electrophysiological Investigations of Sentence Processing in TamilR. Muralikrishnan 15. The Acquisition of Differential Object-Marking in TamilAnnu Kurian-Mathew and Bhuvana Narasimhan 16. Dravidian Contributions to the Theory of Language AcquisitionJeffrey Lidz 17. The Acquisition of Negation and Finiteness in TamilR. Amritavalli 18. Possible Morphosyntactic Markers of Specific Language Impairment in KannadaShivani Tiwari, Pratibha Karanth and R. Amritavalli 19. Inflections in Home and School LanguagesMadhavi Gayathri Raman 20. Malayalam and Core Dravidian Phonology: A View from Early Language AcquisitionGayathri G. Krishnan, Arathi Raghunathan, and Vaijayanthi M. Sarma Section IV. Literary Creativity and Languages in Contact 21. The World of the Tamil Sangam PoetryManu V. Devadevan 22. The Trajectory of Tamil in CinemaSwarnavel Eswaran 23. The Tamil Response to Cosmopolitan Languages in ContactE. Annamalai and T. Sriraman 24. Syntactic Maintenance of Tamil Relative Clauses in Multilingual Adolescents Usha Lakshmanan 25. Multilingualism in the Evolution of Dravidian LanguagesS. N. Sridhar Section V. Literacy and Lexicography 26. From Brahmi to Early Kannada: Script, Scribes, and their SocietyS. Settar 27. Literacy and its Acquisition in KannadaSonali Nag 28. Currents in Tamil LexicographyGregory James and V. Jayadevan 29. The Legacy of Kannada DictionariesS. L. Srinivasa Murthy Index