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Areal Typology & South Asian Language Families

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

Founder, Chair of the Secretaries of University Learner, India School on Internet Governance Fellow 2024, IIM-B, Member of Internet Society, Bangalore, Internal Complaints Committee Member, GITAM Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, Teach for India Fellow 2023 and Fellowship Recruitment Committee, Delhi

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  • Language Typology and Universals
    • Morphological types: agglutinative, isolating, fusional, etc.
    • Universals: absolute/statistical, implicational
    • Genetic, typological, areal classification
  • Approaches to Study
    • Inductive/deductive, word order typology
    • Greenberg’s work and South Asian application
  • South Asian Language Features
    • Phonological, morphological, syntactic traits of major families
  • India as a Linguistic Area
    • Notions of convergence, linguistic area
    • Features: retroflexion, reduplication, anaphora, etc.
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