theoretical descriptive linguistics studies south asian linguistics sinhala south asian languages james w gair cornell university selected edited barbara c lust volume collects twentynine published unpublished papers linguist james gair considered foremost western scholar sri lankan languages sinhala jaffna tamil ranging thirty years work also considers issues variety indian languages including hindi marathi tamil malayalam bengali collection reflects wide range gair interests morphosyntactic questions questions regarding historical areal linguistics especially language contact diglossia extending language acquisition collecting papers making newly accessible volume provide important resource scholars languages linguists interested theoretical issues gair explores april 1998 392 pp 9 linecuts 019 509521 9 75 00 oxford university press _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ information linguistics titles oxford visit oxford university press usa web site http www oupusa org