Ebook: Linguistic archaeology of South Asia

Linguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory.;1. The scope of linguistic archaeology -- 2. The South Asian linguistic scene -- 3. Prehistoric languages of South Asia -- 4. The social context of linguistic convergence -- 5. The Grierson hypothesis revisited : subgroups of Indo-Aryan -- 6. Historical implications of the inner-outer hypothesis -- 7. Palaeobotanical and etymological evidence for the prehistory of South Asian crop plants -- 8. Some aspects of Dravidian prehistory based on vocabulary reconstruction -- 9. Maharashtrian place names and the question of a Dravidian substratum -- 10. Historical linguistics and archaeology in South Asia.