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Franklin C. Southworth
Born1929
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist
Academic work
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Main interests Dravidian languages

Franklin C. Southworth (born 1929) [1] is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of South Asian linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. [2]

Publications

  • South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013) [3]
  • Rice in Dravidian (2011) [4]
  • Proto-Dravidian Agriculture [5]
  • Linguistic archaeology of South Asia (2005)
  • Prehistoric implications of the Dravidian element in the NIA lexicon, with special reference to Marathi (2005)
  • Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory (1995)
  • South Asian emblematic gestures (1992)
  • The reconstruction of prehistoric South Asian language contact (1990)
  • Linguistic archaeology and the Indus Valley culture (1989)
  • Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture (1988)
  • The social context of language standardization (1985)
  • Dravidian and Indo-European: the neglected relationship (1982)
  • Lexical evidence for early contacts between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian (1979)

References

  1. ^ OCLC
  2. ^ Southworth, Franklin C. "upenn.edu profile page". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  3. ^ Franklin C. Southworth, David W. McAlpin (2013). "30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history". South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. doi: 10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm830. ISBN  9781444334890.
  4. ^ Southworth, Franklin (2012). "Rice in Dravidian". Rice. 4 (3–4): 142–148. doi: 10.1007/s12284-011-9076-9.
  5. ^ Southworth, Franklin C. "Proto-Dravidian Agriculture" (PDF). upenn. Retrieved 25 March 2014.