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Linguistic convergence: the Tamil–Hindi auxiliaries1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The subject of the Indianization of the Indian languages has occupied the thoughts of scholars for more than a century. But during the last four decades it has become a field of intensive investigation. The study of the process of convergence in the Indie area began with a hesitant study of common lexical items in Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda. The initial conviction was that grammatical traits may not travel across genetic boundaries. However, scholars like Kuiper and Emeneau not only proved the contrary but also laid the foundation for future research on the ‘unexpected’ structural similarities among the above–mentioned three major language families of the Indian subcontinent.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 266 - 282
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