“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to RoutledgeCurzon is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2005 Franklin C. His current research interest is SARVA (South Asian Residual Vocabulary Assemblage), an online dictionary of words of unknown origin in South Asian languages.įirst published 2005 by RoutledgeCurzon 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. He spent over ten years in India doing fieldwork on Indo-Aryan (Marathi, Konkani, Hindi–Urdu) and Dravidian (Tamil, Malayalam) languages. Subsequently, he taught Linguistics and South Asian Languages (Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Nepali) in the South Asia Regional Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania from which he retired in 1998. Southworth completed his PhD in Linguistics at Yale University. It will be of interest to scholars and students of linguistics, archaeology, prehistory, and palaeobotany. Thus the book is both a description of the unique methodology of “linguistic archaeology” and a treatment of South Asian historical linguistic data. The basic premise of the work is that ancient linguistic evidence, when put into its sociohistorical context, can provide information to supplement the findings of other prehistoric disciplines. The final chapter uses the evidence of the previous chapters, in the light of the latest archaeological work, to sketch possible prehistories of the major South Asian language groups, and to suggest hypotheses for further investigation. These inferences are then compared with and tested against the findings of other disciplines dealing with prehistory, including archaeology and palaeobotany. Following introductory chapters describing the methodology of the interdisciplinary field known as “linguistic archaeology” and introducing the South Asian linguistic scene, the bulk of the book makes use of different types of linguistic evidence (such as loanwords, place names, regionally shared grammatical innovations) to draw inferences about prehistoric events. Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory.
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