Anvita Abbi

 

Institution:Center of Linguistics and English at Jawaharlal Nehru University

Linguistic Field:

• General Linguistics
• Language Documentation
• Morphology
• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Sociolinguistics
• Typology
• Genetic Classification

Postal Address:

70, Dakshinapuram

Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi,

India 110067

Phone: +91-11-610 2401

Fax: +91-11-616 5886

 

 

Selected publications:

''A Manual of Linguistic Fieldwork and Structures of Indian languages''. Lincom Europa, Munich
Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India. The Ethnic Space. 1997. (edited). Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi.

Language and The State. Perspectives on the Eighth Schedule. 1995 (co- edited). Creative Books. New Delhi.

Semantic Universals in Indian Languages. 1994. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

India as a Linguistic Area Revisited. (edited) 1991. A special volume of Language Sciences, vol.13, no.2, Pergamon Press, Tokyo.

Reduplication in South Asian Languages. An Areal, Topological and Historical Study. 1991. Allied. New Delhi.

Studies in Bilingualism. 1986. (Initially published as a special volume of IJOAL in 1985, Vol. XI, No.2). Bahri Publications. New Delhi.

Semantic Theories and Language Teaching (co-authored). 1986. Allied. New Delhi.

Semantic Grammar of Hindi. A Study of Reduplication. 1980. Bahri Publ., New Delhi.

Mutthhi Bhar Pahcaan (A Handful of Recognition). A collection of short stories 1969. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.