Linguistic Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia: Papers from the Proceedings of SALA XVIII Roundtable

The Eighteenth Round Table of South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) was organised by the Centre of linguistics and english, school of languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), Janurary 4 to 6, 1997. The conference was attended by scholars from all over the world and about 150 papers were presented in 20 parallel sessions and plenary sessions. This volume is a representative sample of the breadth and quality of research that is being carried out in South Asian linguistics today.