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South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have four major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages. II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints. III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.
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Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2007
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Editors
Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock (main editor for this volume)
Werner Winter
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2007
edited by
Rajendra Singh
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
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Contents
Editiorial Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
General Contributions The Nominal Left Periphery in Bangla and Asamiya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Probal Dasgupta and Rajat Ghosh
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Special Contributions: Indian English / English in India The Nature, Structure, and Status of Indian English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Rajendra Singh Seeking the Holy Grail of Nativeness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ad Backus On the Native/Non-native Distinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Rakesh M. Bhatt The Athletics of English in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Probal Dasgupta Let’s Face the Music: The Multilingual Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Claudia Lange The Notion ‘Native Speaker’: A Philosophical Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Syed A. Sayeed
Regional Reports Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 John Peterson
vi Contents Reviews Rama Kant Agnihotri – Hindi: An Essential Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 by Ayesha Kidwai Yamuna Kachru – Hindi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 by Pramod Pandey P. G.