Comparative Dravidian Linguistics

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society The impressive treatment of central topics for the understanding of the Dravidian language family makes the collection of papers of continuing importance.

<br>Bhadriraju Krishnamurti is Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Hyderabad. During his long academic career he has held many positions including most recently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad (1986-93) and Tagore Professor of Linguistics at Osmania University (1962-88). In 1970 he was elected President of the Linguistic Society of India; in 1980 he was President of the Dravidian Linguistic Association; and in 1985 he was elected Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America. He has held several prestigious fellowships including Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (1975-6); Tokyo University Centenary Fellow (1980); and Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1999-2000). He has served on the editorial advisory boards of several international journals and book series. His own publications cover a wide range of themes such as lexicography, dialectology, language planning, literacy, etc.<br>

1. Alternations in vowel-length in Telugu verbal bases: A comparative study; 2. Alternations i/e and u/o in South Dravidian; 3. Proto-Dravidian *z; 4. Dravidian personal pronouns; 5. Comparative Dravidian linguistics; 6. Dravidian nasals in Brahui; 7. Some observations on Tamil phonology of the 12th and 13th centuries; 8. Gender and number in Proto-Dravidian; 9. Sound change: Shared innovation vs. diffusion; 10. Areal and lexical diffusion of sound change: Evidence from Dravidian; 11. On diachronic and synchronic rules in phonology: The case of Parji; 12. A vowel-lowering rule in Kui-Kuvi; 13. Unchanged cognates as a criterion in linguistic subgrouping (with Lincoln Moses and Douglas Danforth); 14. An overview of comparative Dravidian studies since Current Trends (1969); 15. A problem of reconstruction in Gondi: Interaction between phonological and morphological processes (with G. U. Rao); 16. The emergence of the syllable types of stems (C)VCC(V) and (C)VC(V) in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: A case of convergence; 17. The origin and evolution of primary derivative suffixes in Dravidian; 18. Patterns of sound change in Dravidian; 19. Evidence for a laryngeal *H in Proto-Dravidian; 20. Regularity of sound change through lexical diffusion: A study of so in Gondi dialects; 21. Landmarks in comparative Dravidian studies during the 20th century