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Pleonastic Compounding: An Ancient Dravidian Word Structure

2016/01/07 by Periannan Chandrasekaran · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #Ancient Near East History #Linguistics and language evolution #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Etymology #Compounding #Linguistics #Word (group theory) #Medicine #Philosophy

paper · doi:10.11588/ejvs.2011.1.319

published in University Library Heidelberg 18(1), 1-59

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Abstract

A heretofore unidentified word structure with a special compounding pattern discovered in the Dravidian language familyand reconstructible to the proto-stage is described here and an application of that pattern to systematically explain the structure and etymology of words in the Vedic substratum is alsoillustrated.

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