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Subversion or convergence? The issue of pre-Vedic retroflexion reexamined

Year: 1996

Type: article

Abstract: developments of the well-established alveolars to dentals in more western Dravidian and retroflexes in more eastern Dravidian.Alternative explanations of the observed data either are unnecessarily complex or are lacking in explanation.The finding that the developments are the result of convergence, not of subversion, is significant, for it suggests that the social relationship between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian speakers in early India was not substantially different from what it is today-a relationship of (near-)equality, rather that the traditional picture of marauding Indo-Aryan invaders suppressing an indigenous Dravidian popula- tion and forcing it to learn their language.1.

Source: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Author: Hans Henrich Hock

Language: English

Topic: Linguistics and language evolution

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W608508974

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Cited by: 23

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