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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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their own distinctive culture and religion. members of Dravidian Linguistic Association Mr. Mahadevan, an internationally of India (DLA) and students without
renowned epigraphist, was awarded the fellowships]. The registration fee for delegates from other countries is US $ 300/-. Bona fide Padma Shri in 2009 for his unique contributions in the field of historical and students and research scholars have to linguistic research. 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- professional far ahead of his colleagues as vananthapuram - 695 586, Kerala by an administrator in the civil service. At the . 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 (profcr48 T. Jamal Mohammed @gmail.com ), Director, Centre for Endangered Languages, Central University of Karnataka. LL N N N N th The Local Organizing Secretary for the 47 All L N N N N L India Conference of Dravidian Linguists is N L N N N N , ( [email protected] ), Associate Professor, Department of Kannada Language and Literature, School of Humanities and Languages, Central University of Karnataka. Those who would like to participate in the With regard to L , papers are invited for oral presentations on substantial, L 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
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Teaching and Learning , Brain and Language , the Malayalam past tense. It is explained that past tense Discourse Analysis , Phonetics and Phonology , in Malayalam has two main alterants /tu , i/ . She has
Semantics , Comparative Linguistics , Historical argued that /i/ has derived from /d/ and /d/ has not derived from /i/ but it appears probable that d and /i/ are Linguistics , Clinical Linguistics , Speech Synthesis , Mathematical Linguistics , Semiotics , Stylistics , IT distinct and independent signs of past tense. Session 2A chaired by Prof. N. Gopinathan and Linguistics , Morphology and Syntax , Prag- matics , Sign Language Studies , Translation Theories , Nair started at 11.20 a.m. at UG Arts Building, Room Computational Linguistics , Neuro-linguistics , Psycho- A2/18. Four papers were presented in this session. linguistics , Sociolinguistics , Forensic Linguistics , Dr. Sagar Mal Gupta’s paper titled Eco- Typology , Folkloristics , Tribal Studies , Cultural linguistic Structure of Literature explained the Studies and Palaeography . For those who prefer to relationship between man and nature, saying 'ecology present a paper in the , deeply affects man and ecology is deeply affected by the topic needs to be related to language endangerment . man'. He has discussed in this paper two questions: (1) How are ecological principles used in the interpretation Abstracts and papers may be sent to the Local th of literature and (2) How is eco-linguistic concept used Secretaries of the 47 AICDL & ISLE by in the study of literature. He has concluded that there is and respectively. a deep ecological relationship between literature and
Nominations for the various awards and structure of language. th prizes to be distributed at the 47 All India Abahan Dutta in Preserving the Diverse Forms Conference of Dravidian Linguists may please be of Bengali: Making the 'Ecosystem ' stable defined the sent to the Secretary, DLA, V.I. Subramoniam term 'linguistic ecology' quoting Voeglin, Voeglin and Memorial ISDL Complex, St. Xavier's College P.O., Schutz (1967). He has explained the use of this term by Thiruvananthapuram - 695 586, Kerala before Einar Haugen who pioneered this form of linguistics