South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, c

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fas

This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understandi

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than