DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS
Reg No. 22651/72

VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER 2		JUNE 2009
Ramakrishna Reddy	Language Endangerment and Fieldwork
B.B. Rajapurohit	Acoustic Analysis of Speech Parameters
S.V. Shanmugam	A Brief History of Tamil Language
Appasamy Murugaiyan	Focus Constructions in Modern Tamil
Debiprasanna Pattanayak & Sanjaya Kumar Lenka	The Derivation of Gerundive Clause of Oriya
Shashikanta Tarai & Devaki Reddy	Stress Patterns of Arabic Borrowed Words
Notes & Discussions
K. Viswanatham	Tribes, their Languages and Language Policy for Tribal Children in School
L. Ramamoorthy	Endangerment of Tribal Languages in Indian Context
Franson D. Manjali	Culture and Politics in the Novel "On the Banks of the River Mahe"
K. Kamala	Language and its Social Correlates: Study based on the Malayalam Works of Madhavikkutty
Muralikrishnan T.R.	Ecolinguistics and Globalisation: Do we have an Option?
T. Madhava Menon	Kinship Terms and Familial Structure in Purananuru
B. Sreedevi	Universal Rites of Marriage across Cultures
Review
P. Sreekumar	M.B. Emeneau: A Bibliography with Citation Index (B.A. Sharada)

BOOK REVIEW

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DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION
Office-bearers (2008-2009)

President	B. Ramakrishna Reddy (Hyderabad)
Vice-Presidents	K. Retnamma (Kerala)
	N. Bhakthavatsala Reddy (Andhra Pradesh)
	Pabitra Sarkar (West Bengal)
	M. Rama (Kerala)
Secretaries	K. Kuttalam Pillai (Kerala)
	N. Rajasekharan Nair (Tamil Nadu)
	C.S. Ramachandra (Karnataka)
	Krishna Bhattacharya (West Bengal)
	Treasurer P. Visalakshy (Kerala)

Executive Committee Members

A. Shanmughadas (Sri Lanka), S.N. Goswami (Assam), T.B. Venugopala Panikkar and G.K. Panikkar (Kerala), S. Arokianathan (Pondicherry), P.R. Subramanian (Tamil Nadu), Jeniffer Bayer (Mysore), Franson D. Manjali (Delhi), Narasimha Reddy (Tirupati), G. Umamaheshwar Rao (Hyderabad), K.S. Mustafa (Himachal Pradesh), Sangamesh Soundattimath (Karnataka), K. Anban (Dharwad), B. Gopinathan Nair(Thiruvananthapuram).

Tribal & Dialect Survey Committee

Chairman: B. Ramakrishna Reddy (Hyderabad), Members T. Madhava Menon (Thiruvananthapuram), S. Rajendran (Tanjavur), R.R. Thampuran (Mysore), G.K. Panikkar (Thiruvananthapuram), H.S. Brahmananda (Andhra Pradesh), B. Gopinathan Nair (Thiruvananthapuram), Puthusseri Ramachandran (Thiruvananthapuram).

Membership

(a)Life membership
Lump sum Rs. 2,000/- (US$ 400 )
Five successive instalments Rs. 420/- (US$ 84 )

(b)Institutional membership (lump sum) Rs. 20,000/- (US$ 1,00 )

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THE TREASURER
Dravidian Linguistics Association
St. Xavier's College P.O.
Thiruvananthapuram - 695 586
Kerala
South India

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS
Office-bearers (2008-2009)

Hon. Editor
V.I. Subramoniam

Chief Editor
B. Gopinathan Nair

Joint Editors
V. Syamala (Thiruvananthapuram), E. James R. Daniel (Nagercoil).

Deputy Editors
B.N. Pattanayak (Kanpur), Anvita Abbi (Delhi), Scaria Zacharia (Kerala).

Editorial Board
Abdree Sjoberg (U.S.A.), John Mar (U.K.), A.G. Menon (Netherlands), J. Vacek (Czech Republic), B. Kapp (Germany), Sitraleka Maunaguru (Sri Lanka), J. Neethivanan (Tamil Nadu), K. Lokanathan Mutharayan (Malaysia).

Committee of Management
President, Vice-President-Correspondent, Secretary and Treasurer (Thiruvananthapuram), Hon. Editor, Chief Editor, K. Rangan (Thanjavur), Puthusseri Ramachandran (Kerala).

Endowment Committee
Nominee of the I.C.S.S.R., G.K. Panikkar (Kerala), B. Gopinathan Nair (Chief Editor, <MI>Ex officio<D>), V.I. Subramoniam (Hon. Editor, Ex officio)

Duration
The journal will be a biannual in English, to be published in the first week of January and June each year.

Papers

The manuscripts of articles should be submitted in triplicate clearly typed on one side only, double space with wide margins, preferably on floppy or through e-mail(dravling@md5.vsnl.net.in). Language data should be underlined with meanings in inverted commas. The systems of footnotes and listing of bibliography will be those adopted in Language. The article, if theoretically important, will be treated as in Current Anthropology and published with comments and replies. Twenty offprints will be issued free of cost to the author(s). Classical papers which are out-of-print will also be republished if there is a demand.