Dravidian Studies
by M.B. Emaneau and Bh. Krishnamurti, Introd.

Of these 27 articles on Dravidian subjects, 23 deal with linguistic topics, several ranging through the Dravidian family as a whole; others concentrate on specific languages, such as Toda, Kota, Kodagu, Brahui, but all attempt to fit specific language data into the comparative study the languages of the family. The author has realized that the comparative study of a language family depends on the firm identificatioin of etymologies, and several of the papers concentrate on etymological study. Such general questions as India as a some-what unified linguistic area, or the structure of personal names, or the ethnological basis of some lexical items, appear in several papers. Four of the papers are on specific Toda subjects; in three of these the approach is in the first place linguistic. These results of some 50 years of study further knowledge of the Dravidian component of India`s people and culture. M.B. EMENEAU is Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and General Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, an honorary fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of India. He has authored many books on Dravidian language.