The Dravidian Languages.(Book Review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Steever, Sanford B. | Copyright information

The Dravidian Languages. By BHADRIRAJU KRISHNAMURTI. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. Pp. xxvii + 545. $95.

The Dravidian Languages is the latest installment in the Cambridge Language Surveys. While synchronic descriptions and typological observations of the individual languages appear throughout, its backbone and first concern is historical and comparative. The book consists of eleven chapters: Introduction (1-47), Descriptive pho...

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