Streams of Language: Dialects in TamilKannan M. Contributed articles presented at an international conference, "Dialects in Tamil" held on August 23-25th 2006 at the French Institute of Pondichery.-- t.p. 4. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | v |
Introduction | xi |
Problems and policies in language and literature | 7 |
The concept of ticaiccol in Tamil grammatical literature | 21 |
Metaphony or height harmony in written Tamil and Malayalam | 53 |
Regional languagesdialects in Italy | 65 |
scope and limitations of translating | 81 |
Rare early old Tamil words and grammatical usages in Tamilbrahmi | 91 |
some methodological issues | 173 |
an ethnographic approach | 185 |
A plea for the documentation of the ancient Tamil dialects of Karnataka | 197 |
சொற்களஞ்சியத்திற்குப் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டிய ஆதாரம் | 207 |
ஒரு வட்டார வழக்கு நாவலும் ஒரு வட்டார வழக்கு அகராதியும் | 217 |
Dialects as vehicle for the construction of regional and social identities | 223 |
Influence of the French language on Puducherry Tamil | 231 |
Identifying Puducherry proverbs | 239 |
Study of the dialects in inscriptions | 99 |
Dialect survey of Malayalam in retrospect | 107 |
Literary uses of Malayalam dialects | 123 |
Telugu dialects as vehicle of sociopolitical communication | 131 |
with special reference to old and late | 141 |
Remarks on Tamil dialects | 151 |
A brief survey of the study of Tamil dialects to date | 167 |
Dialects in practice | 249 |
சில அனுபவங்கள் | 259 |
சொல் எனும் இருப்பு | 267 |
மள்ளாட்டை மனிதர்கள் | 275 |
வட்டார வழக்கும் எழுத்தாளர்களும் | 293 |
Note on the twelve Tamil dialectal regions | 319 |
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