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The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Dutch
input frequenc semantic transparency
2015/4/10
We investigate how Tamil- and Dutch-speaking adults and four- to
five-year-old children use caused posture verbs (‘lay/stand a bottle
on a table’) to label placement events in which objects ar...
Recently in language pedagogy, common to focus on need for ‘authentic’ language.
The Ausbau Issue in the Dravidian Languages: the Case of Tamil and the Problem of Purism
Tamil Dravidian Language Tamil Language culture
2015/1/30
Tamil is a Dravidian language that began to try to develop itself, i.e. undergo Ausbau, when the perception developed that there was a threat from other languages to its very existence.1 But Tamil lin...
Deverbal Nominal Derivation in Tamil.
The Grammaticalization of Aspect in Tamil and its semantic sources
Tamil The verb Indian language areas
2015/1/30
Tamil has a number of verbs, sometimes referred to as 'aspectual verbs' that are added to a main or lexical verb to provide semantic distinctions such as duration, completion, habituality, regulari...
Tamil Language Policy in Singapore: the Role of Implementation.
Language policy Achilles' heel Language planning
2015/1/30
The question of language policy implementation is one that is typically thought of as problematical in some way—sometimes referred to as the ‘Achilles’ Heel’ of language policy—since the failure of a ...
The Tamil Case system is analyzed in native and missionary grammars (henceforth NMG) as consisting of a finite number of cases1 (realized morphologically as nominal or pronominal suffixes), to some o...
Tongue-Tied in Singapore: A Language Policy for Tamil?
diglossia language maintenance bilingual education subtractive bilingualism
2015/1/30
The Tamil situation in Singapore is one that lends itself ideally to the study of minority language maintenance. The Tamil community is small and its history and demographics are well known. The Singa...
Malaysian Tamils and Tamil Linguistic Culture
Tamil minority Language The Tamil people Language organization form Ethnic minorities
2015/1/30
In this paper I examine the position of Tamil as an ethnic minority and language in Malaysia, and make some predictions about its changes for survival in the twenty-first century. Tamils are the larg...
Language Shift in the Tamil Communities of Malaysia and Singapore: the Paradox of Egalitarian Language Policy.
Tamil. Ethnic minorities Language Language planning Policy planning
2015/1/30
The purpose of this paper is to examine the position of Tamil as an ethnic minority and language in Malaysia and Singapore, and to draw some conclusions about the role of language planning/policy plan...
Standardization or restandardization: The case for “Standard” Spoken Tamil
Tamil. Double tongue Tamil dialect Written standards Lingua franca. Oral communication
2015/1/30
The Tamil language has had its current standard written form since the 13th century; but because of increasing diglossia, spoken Tamil dialects have now diverged so radically from earlier norms, inclu...
Intervocalic V-deletion in Tamil: Its Domains and its Constraints.
Yuan Tamil. V - deletion Domain The constraint
2015/1/30
Intervocalic V-deletion in Tamil: Its Domains and its Constraints.
Negation in modern Tamil is a problematical area for scholars and grammarians interested in syntax and semantics. While there is a simple negative marker -le that is affixed to infinitives to mark neg...
Tamil and other South Dravidian languages are somewhat unique in that they possess three phonological contrasts in the area of what are usually referred to as r-like segments (continuants, trills, fla...
My grateful thanks are due to the Vice- Chancellor and the other authorities of the Maduri Kamaraj University for the honour they have done me by asking me to deliver these lectures. I have chosen “Th...