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V.I. SUBRAMONIAM COMMEMORATION VOLUMES Vol. I: Studies on Dravidian - Crown ¼, pp. xx + 515, Rs. 1,280/ - (US$ 110/-) Vol. II: Studies on Indian Languages and Cultures – Crown ¼, pp. xx + 458, Rs. 1,150/- (US$ 105/ -) Dravidian Syntactic Typology Sanford B. Steever, 2017, PB, Demy 1/8, pp. xiv + 162, Rs. 240/ - (US$ 24/ -) Vol 42 No. 12 Website www.ijdl.org Email: [email protected] ; [email protected] DECEMBER 2018 A MONTHLY OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF INDIA MR. IRAVATHAM MAHADEVAN IS NO MORE The members of the DLA and ISDL are deeply grieved by the passing away of Sri. Iravatham Mahadevan, the former Chairman of the International School of Dravidian Linguistics. 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He was also awarded produce a certificate from the respective Heads of Departments stating their student the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 1970 for his research in Indus script and status to avail the concessional registration. National Fellowship of Indian Council of Accompanying persons, if any, have to be Historical Research in 1992 for his work on registered by paying Rs. 3000/- or US $ 300/- as the case may be. Participants are requested Tamil Brahmi inscriptions. to fill up the registration form and send it The most outstanding aspect of his along with the registration fee to the Secretary, personality was that he excelled in all the DLA, V.I. Subramoniam Memorial ISDL areas where he engaged himself. He was a Complex, St. Xavier's College P.O., Thiru- th professional far ahead of his colleagues as vananthapuram - 695 586, Kerala by 18 an administrator in the civil service. At the May 2019 . The details of the modes of same time, he was a great researcher and payment are given in the registration form. deep scholar of such a wide dimension that many best scholars would envy. Food and accommodation will be provided in the guesthouses and hostels of ISDL is deeply indebted to Mr. Mahadevan the Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga. for his magnanimity in donating more than 1000 volumes of books in English and The Local Organizing Secretary for the International Symposium on Language Tamil which included rare collections of manuscripts. Endangerment is Prof. C. Ramaswamy (profcr48 T. Jamal Mohammed @gmail.com ), Director, Centre for Endangered Languages, Central University of Karnataka. 47 th ALL INDIA CONFERENCE OF DRAVIDIAN th The Local Organizing Secretary for the 47 All LINGUISTS & INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM India Conference of Dravidian Linguists is ON LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT Dr. Vikram Visaji , ( [email protected] ), 20-22 June 2019 Associate Professor, Department of Kannada Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga Language and Literature, School of Humanities and Languages, Central University of Karnataka. Those who would like to participate in the 47 th All India Conference of Dravidian With regard to 47 th AICDL , papers are invited for oral presentations on substantial, Linguists & International Symposium on Language Endangerment are requested to fill up original and unpublished research pertaining to the registration form (which can be downloaded any aspect of theoretical and applied linguistics from our website www.ijdl.org ) and send it along or to any other linguistic-related topic. The with the registration fee [(1) Rs. 3,000/- for following are a few such areas for paper delegates from India and other SAARC countries, presentation: Language Acquisition , Language (2) Rs. 2,000/ - for Ph.D. Researchers with Teaching and Learning , Brain and Language , Latest Publications: A LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL STUDY OF MALAYALAM AND TAMIL , Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan, 2018, PB, Demy 1/8, Pp. 10 + 183, Rs. 250/- (US$ 25/-). A LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION OF E UTTACCHAN’S ADHY ĀTMA RĀMĀYA FAM , N.R. 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