The Pre-Toda Verb

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_11728
dc.title	The Pre-Toda Verb. A Reconstruction
dc.contributor.author	Sanjay Surya
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/bhasha/2023/2/the-pre-toda-verb/
dc.description.abstract	Toda is a Dravidian language that is well known for its aberrant phonology, namely due to ubiquitous vowel dropping, simplification of consonant clusters, and phonemic diversification. Although efforts have succeeded to some extent in mapping these phonemes to those of related languages, the origins and implications of Toda morphology have not yet been explored in detail. This work aims to reconstruct key aspects of the Pre-Toda verb in order to provide a dataset to be faithfully used in comparative Dravidian linguistics. Here, the formation of the secondary stem and the nonpast suffixes are demonstrated to show more affinity towards Old Kannada rather than Old Tamil. At the same time, the tenseless and dubitative conjugations, along with personal terminations, are found to retain archaic Dravidian suffixes.
dc.relation.ispartof	Bhasha
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Num. 2 \| Ottobre 2023
dc.issued	2023-11-03
dc.dateAccepted	2023-09-25
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-01-12
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-5953
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Dravidian
dc.subject	Reconstruction
dc.subject	South Asian linguistics
dc.subject	Toda
dc.subject	Verb morphology

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The Pre-Toda Verb

A Reconstruction

Surya Sanjay University of Michigan, USA

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abstract

Toda is a Dravidian language that is well known for its aberrant phonology, namely due to ubiquitous vowel dropping, simplification of consonant clusters, and phonemic diversification. Although efforts have succeeded to some extent in mapping these phonemes to those of related languages, the origins and implications of Toda morphology have not yet been explored in detail. This work aims to reconstruct key aspects of the Pre-Toda verb in order to provide a dataset to be faithfully used in comparative Dravidian linguistics. Here, the formation of the secondary stem and the nonpast suffixes are demonstrated to show more affinity towards Old Kannada rather than Old Tamil. At the same time, the tenseless and dubitative conjugations, along with personal terminations, are found to retain archaic Dravidian suffixes.

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03 Novembre 2023

Accettato

25 Settembre 2023

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12 Gennaio 2023

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Keywords: Dravidian • South Asian linguistics • Verb morphology • Reconstruction • Toda

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