The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages display? Do we expect to find the same

The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the rese

An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

The field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent years, as a wider and more diverse range of languages have beco