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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 - pp. xx + 458, Crown ¼, Rs. 1,150/- (US$ 105/-) Phonetics and its Application to Different Areas - Demy 1/8, pp. 160, Rs. 200/ - (US$ 15/ -) IJDL Vol. 4 4 No. 2 Vol 40 No. 4 Website www.ijdl.org Email: [email protected] ; [email protected] APRIL 2016 A MONTHLY OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA THE GREAT DRAVIDIAN LINGUIST CONTENTS Prof. P.S. SUBRAHMANYAM Prof. P.S. Subrahmanyam no more 1 Reminder - ICDL 2016 / 44 th AICDL 1 IS NO MORE Symposium – Traditional Grammars 2 of Dravidian Languages jksdfjksdfjlkWith sdfjksdjlfk deep sorrow, dfjk sdfjkdjfk we report dfjkdfjk the dfjkdjfk demise of Prof. P.S. 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He was a member of the first Working Committee (formed in 1971) of the DLA along with doyens like Suniti Kumar Chatterji, T.P. Meenakshisundaram Pillai, G.J. Somayaji, Please buy and recommend the publications of DLA and ISDL to others. DLA and ISDL publications are now available at special discount. 1 sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk Website: www.ijdl.org dfkdfkdfDLA News jksdfjksdfjlk Vol. 40 April sdfjksdjlfk 2016 dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf j ksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk 4343 Elankulam P.N. Kunjan Pillai, M. Mariappa Bhat, R.C. SPECIAL ENDOWMENT LECTURES --- Hiremath, K. Mahadeva Sastri, V.I. Subramoniam, ththth S. Bhattacharya and H. Schiffman. ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL Prof. Subrahmanyam will be remembered for Professor V.I. Subramoniam Endowment Lecture his invaluable contribution to Dravidian linguistics. His Prof. V. Prakasam, Hyderabad death is a great loss to young linguists and researchers Professor Nagamma Reddy Endowment Lecture and it also creates a great vacuum in the field of Prof. Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi, Poona Dravidian studies. All the members of the Dravidian Linguistics Association express their heartfelt RD condolences to his bereaved family. 43 ALL INDIA CONFERENCE OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTS - Report Reported by Peri Bhaskararao & P. Sreekumar (Concluding Part) A REMINDER TO THE PARTICIPANTS Prof. Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan chaired th parallel session I where four scholars presented OF ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL papers. In the paper, A Study of Body Terms of Those who would like to participate in the th Korava Language , Syed Mujeeb Ahmed ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL are requested to fill up the attempted a descriptive analysis of the body terms registration form (which can be downloaded from our in Korava, a Dravidian speech variety used in website www.ijdl.org ) and send it along with the Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Baiju registration fee (Rs. 1500/-, for life-members of DLA D. elaborated the phonology and grammar of the and students Rs. 750/-) to the Secretary-DLA, Koro tribal language in the paper Koro Tribal International School of Dravidian Linguistics, V.I. Language and its Phonology, Semantics, Subramoniam Memorial ISDL Complex, St. Xavier’s Pragmatics and Syntax . Basavaraja Kodagunti College P.O., Thiruvananthapuram – 695 586, Kerala illustrated with examples different case markers as early as possible for ensuring accommodation. in Nilgiri languages. The paper Language Accommodation can be assured only for those who Endangerment of Irulas in Coastal Regions by register early. For late registrants, accommodation will Kumaresan P. Elayarajan revealed the present be provided as per availability. Those who need socio-cultural, economic and language aspects of separate hotel accommodation should intimate the th Irulas. After a thorough discussion of the features Local Convener before 5 June 2016 . In that case, the of these tribal languages and the challenges faced charges with regard to food and accommodation in by the tribes, the Chairman concluded the session. hotels will have to be borne by the participant. Under the Chairmanship of Prof. SYMPOSIUM ON THE TRADITIONAL Chandrasekara Rao, three papers were presented: GRAMMARS OF DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES The Numeral Systems in Kui by Maheswaran C., KaNikkergoTTi – Numerals by Mubarak Ali and The International School of Dravidian Status of Tribal Mother Tongue Eravella by Linguistics conducted a symposium on the traditional Gnanasundaram V. grammars of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu on 7.4.2016 at Rabindra Bhavan, ISDL campus. Prof. Umamaheswar Rao chaired the parallel M. Rama, former Director, International School of session where three papers were presented : Dravidian Linguistics and Professor of Kannada Lexical Analysis of Dravidian Languages in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu – A Sociolinguistic (Retd.) inaugurated the symposium. Prof. G.K. Panikkar, Director, ISDL delivered the keynote View by Ramalingam S., Code Switching between address. The paper presenters and panelists who Telugu and English in the Speech of Newsreaders actively involved in the symposium are Dr. Syamala, and Reporters in Telugu News Channels by Dr. Kamatchi, Dr. Ganesan Ambedkar, Dr. M.C. Upender Maloth and Cultural Documentation of Kesavamurthy and Dr. Shanavas. Koraga Tribes by Thennarasu S. Latest Publications: V.I. SUBRAMONIAM COMMEMORATION VOLUMES I