The Kurux Language

Name: The Kurux Language
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Grammar, Texts and Lexicon

Masato Kobayashi, Bablu Tirkey

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Brill
21 September 2017

Usage & grammar guides; Grammar, syntax

Series: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping.

Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.

By: Masato Kobayashi, Bablu Tirkey
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1.380kg
ISBN: 9789004347656
ISBN 10: 9004347658
Series: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
Pages: 810
Publication Date: 21 September 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Masato Kobayashi, Ph.D. (2000), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tokyo. He has worked on ancient and modern Indian languages, and is the author of Texts and Grammar of Malto (Vizianagaram, Kotoba Books, 2012). Bablu Tirkey (1980-2015) was a Lecturer of Kurux at Doranda College, Ranchi. Firmly established in Kurux tradition, he worked on Kurux language and literature, and authored the Kurux novel Khatrka Ropnas gahi Tungul (‘Poor Ropna’s Dream’) (Bendora, Manas Prakashan, 2017).