@article{1480790,
      recid = {1480790},
      author = {Chandra, Pritha,},
      title = {Variation in South Asian languages : from macro to  micro-differences /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) :},
      abstract = {The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics  today: What kind of variation do typologically related  languages display? Do we expect to find the same variation  in genealogically unrelated languages spoken in the same  area? What makes dialects different? The current book  answers these questions using data from languages spoken in  the Indian subcontinentan area known for its linguistic  richness and diversity. Each chapter in the book presents a  wealth of data collected through extensive fieldwork or  controlled experimental setups. The chapters examine  macro-variation in relative clauses, word order and  negation found among Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan  and Tibeto-Burman languages. It also investigates  meso-level variation among related Eastern Indo-Aryan  languages and intra-language and dialectal changes. It  encourages scholars to probe deep into the mechanisms that  underlie the immense intra- and inter-language variation in  the area. It serves as a resource book for postgraduate and  research scholars of linguistic typology, theoretical  syntax, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and for  scholars interested in South Asian languages.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480790},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1149-3},
}