This book contains twenty-five refereed papers contributed by linguists of established credentials from various countries in honour of Professor Panchanan Mohanty, who is considered one of the most acclaimed linguists of India. The papers included in this volume represent various themes in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. This book is relevant for undergraduate, postgraduate as well as research students who are interested in different aspects of language science. The teachers of linguistics discipline, fieldworkers and freelance language enthusiasts may find it useful in understanding their object of inquiry. The scholars concerned with language policy, writing systems, and documentation of lesser-known languages may also find the contents of this book interesting and relevant. Contents BERNARD SPOLSKY LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND ADVOCATES LYLE CAMPBELL THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT RESEARCH WITH PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES PAUL SIDWELL THE PROTO-AUSTROASIATIC CULTURAL LEXICON: RETENTION OR DIFFUSION? DAVID BRADLEY LISU IN INDIA K. A. JAYASEELAN SOME PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION AND THE MEANING OF LIGHT VERBS JULIA SALLABANK PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE SUSTAINABILITY: DISCOURSES, ENGAGEMENT AND RESEARCH METHODS IN LANGUAGE REVITALISATION BARBARA C. LUST WHY CONSERVE THE LANGUAGE OF SOUTH ASIA’S CHILDREN? B. N. PATNAIK THE LANGUAGE OF RUDENESS K. RANGAN PURE TAMIL MOVEMENT: A SYMBOL OF IDENTITY CRISIS LIUDMILA KHOKHLOVA EXPRESSION OF PAINFUL SENSATIONS IN HINDI ABINITHA GOURABATHINA & CHRISTIANE FELLBAUM A CORPUS ANALYSIS OF THE COLLOCATIONAL PROPERTIES OF ENGLISH MODIFYING ADVERBS RAJEND MESTHRIE & SABIHA HASHAMI CONNECTING THE CONTACT HINDI OF BIHAR WITH THE BHOJPURI-HINDI DIASPORA K. S. NAGARAJA A NOTE ON DOUBLETS IN KHASI DAN RAJ REGMI & AMBIKA REGMI BANJARA ASSESSING COMMUNITY’S DESIRE AND NEED FOR MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION: SOME EXPERIENCES FROM NEPAL MIKI NISHIOKA CONFLICTING PATTERNS OF AGREEMENT IN HINDI-URDU: A CASE STUDY FOCUSING ON EASTERN PART OF HINDI-URDU BELT RAMANJANEY KUMAR UPADHYAY & S. IMTIAZ HASNAIN ON LANGUAGE: ORIENTAL AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVE SHAILENDRA MOHAN SOME ASPECTS OF NIHALI SYNTAX SONAL KULKARNI-JOSHI & MANASI KELKAR SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND DIACHRONIC CHANGE IN DIALECTS OF MARATHI AJIT KUMAR BAISHYA THE GENESIS OF NAGAMESE NILADRI SEKHAR DASH THE NORMS AND RULES OF PART-OF-SPEECH (POS) TAGGING ON A WRITTEN TEXT CORPUS MOHAMMED Q. SHORMANI VOCATIVES IN ARABIC: WHERE THEY BELONG? RITESH KUMAR VERBAL AGGRESSION ON SOCIAL MEDIA: HOW, WHY AND ITS AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION ATUL AMAN ET AL. CONSONANTS IN KHORTHA ANKITA SATAPATHY NATURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF NPIS IN ODIA AND THEIR LICENSING TARIQ KHAN THE NASKH/NASTA`LIQ SCRIPT: AN EVALUATION OF ITS NATIVE-FOREIGN DICHOTOMY, LEARNABILITY ISSUES AND PROPOSALS FOR REFORMweiterlesen