1 Introduction to the Dravidian Languages
Sanford B. Steever
2 The Dravidian Scripts
William Bright
Part I: South Dravidian
3 Old Tamil
Thomas Lehmann
4 Modern Tamil
E. Annamalai and Sanford B. Steever
5 Malayalam
P. Sreekumar
6 Betta Kurumba
Gail Coelho
7 Kannada Sanford B. Steever
8 Tulu
D.N.S. Bhat
Part II: South-Central Dravidian
9 Old Telugu
P. Ramanarasimham
10 Telugu
Bh. Krishnamurti
11 Ko¿¿a
Bh. Krishnamurti and Brett A. Benham
12 Gon¿i
Sanford B. Steever
13 Kuvi
Sanford B. Steever
Part III: Central Dravidian
14 Kolami
P.S. Subrahmanyam
15 Gadaba
Peri Bhaskararao
Part IV: North Dravidian
16 Malto
Sanford B. Steever
17 Kurux
Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon
18 Brahui
Josef Elfenbein
Biography
Sanford B. Steever holds three degrees in linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of five books and 60 articles on historical linguistics, syntax, Dravidian linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for nearly 50 years, is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association and serves on the advisory board of the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.
Praise for the previous edition:
‘Steever sets out the aim of this volume as being to enable "the layman or linguist … to satisfy his curiosity about these individual languages" … The volume succeeds in Steever’s aim, while in addition suggesting a number of interesting questions for further investigation.’
Bernard Comrie, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36 [2000]
