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LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS/ LITERATUREtextual criticism, editorial theory and book history. Blendingcase studies with general observation and theory, heconsiders the implications of the physical form of the text;the relation between oral and written language, andbetween language and other media; the new territoryopened up by electronic texts; and special categories likeplay-books and translations. Drawing on an exceptionallywide range of material, both Western literature and Indianworks from Sanskrit aesthetics to the poetry ofRabindranath Tagore, Chaudhuri sets a new agenda for thestudy of texts.Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor of English and Director ofthe School of Cultural Texts and Records at JadavpurUniversity, Kolkata, India.31 B&W illustrations9781107400337 238pp HB ` 595.00North East IndianLinguisticsStephen Morey &Mark Post (eds)The North East of India is one ofthe most rich and diverse culturallinguisticregions of Asia. However,awareness of this is notwidespread and as a result, thelinguistic abundance of the regionhas not been sufficientlyappreciated. Students and scholarsfrom different parts of India andthe world are now making efforts to turn around thisscenario.North East Indian Linguistics is a result of such concertedattempts. This book is the first published collection ofselected articles on North East Indian linguistics. The articlesrepresent the current state of research in the field.The authors have adopted a variety of approaches to thestudy of the multifarious North East Indian languages – Ao(Naga), Assamese, Atong (Bodo-Garo), Bishnupriya, Garo,Khamti (Tai), Khasi, Kurtoep, Singpho, and the Tanilanguages, Apatani, Galo and Mising. The areas addressed inthis book include descriptive phonology, lexicon,morphosyntax and semantics. The book also discussesgeneral topics regarding fieldwork and orthographydevelopment.Stephen Morey is a research fellow at the Research Centrefor Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University,Melbourne, Australia.Mark Post is a specialist in the Tani languages of ArunachalPradesh and Assam. He works in the Research Centre forLinguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University,Melbourne, Australia.9788175966000 284pp HB ` 695.00North East IndianLinguistics Volume 2Stephen Morey &Mark Post (eds)This volume is the second in aseries of selected paperspresented at the InternationalConferences of the North EastIndian Linguistics Society (NEILS), aforum for the study of thelanguages of North East India. TheNorth East Indian languages arethe richest and most diverse, yetalso one of the least-well-known regions of the linguisticsworld. NEILS brings together local scholars, students, andwell-known researchers from India and across the world topresent the latest in research on North East Indianlanguages and cultures.The book essentially discusses tonology and phonology inthe Assam floodplain. They bring together extensiveinformation on tone in Bodo and Dimasa, studies of TaiPhake songs, the Ahom Bar Amra manuscripts, and theBarpetia dialect of Assamese. A special section on numeralsalso presents a comparative study of Tibeto-Burmannumeral systems and more detailed accounts of Khasi, Karbi,Kom and Aimol.Presenting new information on North East Indian languagesfrom well-developed linguistic perspectives, and yetincluding much information on topics of broader interestsuch as numeral systems, medieval manuscripts, poetry andsongs, this book will be of interest to scholars specialising inSouth and South-East Asian languages and cultures,linguistic diversity and language endangerment.Stephen Morey is a research fellow at the Research Centrefor Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University inMelbourne, Australia. He is a specialist in Tai, Singpho andTangsa languages as well as some Aboriginal languages ofAustralia.Mark Post is also a research fellow at the RCLT. He is aspecialist in the Tani languages of Arunachal Pradesh andAssam, and has also written extensively on Thai, Chinese,and comparative Tibeto-Burman syntax.9788175967144 268pp HB ` 695.00North East IndianLinguistics Volume 3Gwendolyn Hyslop, StephenMorey & Mark W. Post (eds)North East Indian Linguistics Volume3 presents the latest in descriptiveand anthropological linguisticresearch on the languages of theNorth East Indian region. Longacknowledged to be among theculturally and linguistically richestand most diverse regions of allAsia, North East India also remainsto this day one of the least well-studied and well-order online at www.cambridgeindia.org21