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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0019-7246
- eISSN
- 1572-8536
- DOI
- 10.1163/000000095790084549
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Abstract
R E V I E W S Semantic Universals in Indian languages. By Anvita Abbi. Indian Institute for Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Simla, 1993, pp. 113. The aim of the present work is to identify and to define some of the shared semantic features of Indian languages. This is a most important project: M. B. Emeneau and more recently C. P. Masica have shown in their books and numerous articles how linguistic diffusion has operated in India, and how India as a linguistic area has phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic characteristics that are shared by languages of different genetic affiliations. But it is in the field of semantic similarities that there is massive scope for further investigation, particularly against the background of both shared and varied social systems. An indication of this has been given by Emeneau in his paper " ' A r m ' and 'Leg' in the Indian Linguistic Area" (1979). The author sets about her task in an unexpected way: after a somewhat basic introduction on linguistic relationships she lists some phonological features that are peculiar to only some Indian languages, such as the pharyngeal s of Assamese and the glottal stop of Savara;
Journal
Indo-Iranian Journal – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1995