Streams of Language: Dialects in Tamil

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Kannan M.
Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2008 - Tamil language - 335 pages
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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