Publications

Publication details [#1741]

Bright, William O. 1960. Linguistic change in some Indian caste dialects. International Journal of American Linguistics 26 (3) : 19–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | social status

Language as a subject

Kannada | Tulu

Annotation

With reference to Kannada and Tulu, B. addresses the question as to the correlation between the amount of linguistic change manifested in a dialect and the social status of the people who speak it.

Reprints

Bright, William O. 1976. In Bright, William O., ed. Variation and change in language. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 39–46.