Research Articles on Tamil Language and Linguistics
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The following is a representative collection of articles on Tamil Language and linguistics that appeared in Tamil Research Journals
Agesthialingom, S
Adjectives in Tamil with special reference to Patriruppattu, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 9 (Jun 1976) 23-49
First person plural terminations in old Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 11 (Jun 1977) 121-129; 12 (Dec 1977) 64-86
Imperative in old Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 41, no.2 (Jun 1980) 102-115A
Negatives in old Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 40, no.2 (Jun 1979) 59-77
Participial noun in old Tamil, Journal of the Annamalai University. Pt.A: Humanities (Annamalai Nagar) 30 ( 1978) 121-168
Verbal constraints on the use of the indefinite pronouns in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 2 (Dec 1972) 30-36
Akki Reddy, S.
Sanskrit vocables in Telugu and Tamil--a semantic investigation, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 31, pt.1 1982 1-12
Ananthanarayana, H.S
Nominal derivation in Sanketi Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 5, no.1 (Jan 1976) 108-113
Remarks on 'Nested case relations and the subject in Tamil', Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 19 (Jun 1981) 64-72
The verb morphology of Sanketi Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 27 (Jun) 1985 14-21
Andronov, M
The negative in Dravidian: a comparative study, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 11 (Jun 1977) 106-120
The negative in Dravidian: a comparative study, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 10 (Dec 1976) 1-12
Dravidian pronouns: a comparative study, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 7 (Jun 1975) 14-18; 8 (Dec 1975) 18-32
Tense and mood in Dravidian: a comparative study, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 13 (Jun 1978) 12-39; 15 (Jun 1979) 69-87
The etymology of 'Tamil', 'Dravidian', Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 4, no.1 (Jan-Jun 1977) 89-92
Annamalai, E.
Aspects of aspect in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 8, no.2 (Jun 1979) 260-267
Lexical meaning, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 30 (Dec) 1986) 79-88
The semantics of the verbs vaa and poo in Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 36, no.3 (Sep 1975) 212-216
Aravanan, K.P
Physical and cultural similarities between Dravidian and African, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 10 (Dec 1976) 23-27
Arokianathan, S
The Tamil diglossia in radio, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 9 (Jun 1976) 94-97
Tanization in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 13, no.1 (Jan) 1984 123-135
Vowel shift in Tamil diglossia, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 15, no.1 (Jan) 1986 42-51
Arunachalam, M
Echo-words in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 11 (Jun 1977) 1-10
A universal substitute word, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 14 (Dec 1978) 45-48
Sakta lyrics in the Tamil language, Saiva Siddhanta (Madras) 12, no.1 (Jan-Mar 1977) 1-9; no.2 (Apr-Jun 1977) 55-65; no.3 (Jul-Sep 1977) 94-99
Balasubramanian, T
The pure oral vowels of colloquial Tamil--a spectrographic study, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 9, no.1 (Jan 1980) 23-35
Chandra, Lokesh
Tamil sound-sequence of the Japanese alphabet, Studies in Indo-Asian Art and Culture (New Delhi) 5 1977 103-108; International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 17, no.2 (Jun 1988) 57-63
Chandrasekhar, A.
The terms eluttu, pulli and mey in Tamil grammar, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 4, no.2 (Jun 1975) 272-277
Chellamuthu, K.C.
A practical approach to machine translation system (Russian to Tamil), International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 15, no.1 (Jan) 1986 86-95
Dale, Ian R.H.
Auxiliary verbs in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 16 (Dec 1979) 1-9
Emeneau, M.B.
Journal of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, CT) 115,
no.3 (Jul-Sep 1995) 401-409
with Hart, Kausalya: Tamil expressives with initial voiced stops, Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (London) 56, pt.1 1993 75-86
Ferro-Luzzi, Gabriella Eichinger
Colloquial speech in modern Tamil literature, In: Offredi, Mariola, ed. Language versus dialect: linguistic and literary essays on Hindi, Tamil, and Sarnami. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1990. 205p. 1990 171-189
Franklin, Albert B.
The Tamil language in the modern world, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 1 (Sep 1972) 9-22
Gair, James W.
with Suseendirarajah, S:Some aspects of the Jaffna Tamil verbal system, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 10, no.2 (Jun 1981) 370-384
Geetha, K.
Indeclinable as a nominative case assigner in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 15, no.2 (Jun) 1986 244-250
The standard theory and the Tamil infinitives, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 14, no.2 (Jun) 1985 199-208
Gnanasambandan, A.S.
Tolkappiyar's concept of Uvamai, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 4 (Dec 1973) 1-12
Govindankutty, A.
From proto-Tamil-Malyalam to west coast dialects, Indo-Iranian Journal (The Hague) 14, nos.1-2 1972 52-60
James, Gregory
A typological scheme for the Nikantu tradition, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 36 (Dec 1989) 28-32
Some Tamil lexicographical records in Western Europe, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 8, no.2 (Mar 1991) 72-83
Jayadevan, V
A brief survey of text-dictionaries in Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 30, pt.1 1980 1-6
A note on Tamil synonymy, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 26, pts.1&2 1976 1-4
An entry from the Tamil lexicon, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) ( 1975) 628-632
Kandiah, Thiru
On the source of two classes of "manner adverb" in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 8, no.2 (Jun 1979) 205-217
with Sivasegaram, S.,: The Tamil script: characteristics and problems, and proposal for its reform, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 45, nos.1-4 1984 55-101
Karunakaran, K
Accessiblity between literary and colloquial Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35, no.1 (Mar 1974) 55-59
Karunatilake, W.S.
with Suseendirajah, S: Phonology of Sinhalese and Srilanka Tamil-a study in contrast and interference, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 34, no.3 (Sep 1973) 180-190
with Suseendirarajah, S.: Pronouns of address in Tamil and Sinhalese a sociolinguistic study, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 4, no.1 (Jan 1975) 83-96
Khaire, Vishvanath
Tamil alveolars in Marathi vocabulary, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 17 (Jun 1980) 79-93
Tamil, the language of prehistoric Maharashtra, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 15 (Jun 1979) 14-25; 16
Tamil-Sanskrit interaction in the Agastya myth, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 13 (Jun 1978) 40-63
Kothandaraman, P
The verbalizer i in Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35, no.2 (Jun 1974) 139-141
Cases in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 6 (Dec 1974) 59-68
Development of new grammatical categories in Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 29, pts.1-2 ( 1980) 1-8
The place of speaker hearer concept in Tamil syntax, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 28, pt.1 1978 1-8
On gender system in Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 27, pts.1&2 1977 1-9
Script reform in Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 30, pt.2 1981 1-8
The syntax of enru and enra in Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 30, pt.1 1980 1-9
A note on the echo words in Tamil, Journal of Asian Studies (Manila) 1, no.1 (Sep) 1983 165-169
Complers in Tamil syntax, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 15, no.2 (Jun) 1986 190-233
Relative clause and participal noun in Tamil: a new perspective, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 13, no.1 (Jan) 1984) 68-109
Since the reportive marker is a copula verbal, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 33 (Jun 1988) 67-72
The triplets in Indian place names: a linguistic study, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 27 (Jun) 1985 34-42
Lindholm, James M.
Nested case relations and the subject in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 7, no.1 (Jan 1978) 75-98
Loganatha Muttarayan, K.
Sumerian Si-in and old Tamil cin: a study in the historical evolution of the Tamil verbal system, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 34 (Dec 1988) 45-72
Sumerian: Tamil of the first Cankam, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 8 (Dec 1975) 40-61
The Sumerian 'Nin-me-sar-ra' as a text in archaic Tamil, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 6, no.2 (Mar 1989) 45-84
Madhivanan, R
Pavanar: a pioneer in Tamilology, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 19 (Jun 1981) 73-80
Mahadevan, Iravatham
Orthographic system in early Tamil writing, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 8, no.1 (Sep 1990) 35-47
Mahadevan, K.S
The need for script reform in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 15 (Jun 1979) 9-13
Mahalingam, K.
Relative clause constructions in Tamil: a functional approach, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 15, no.1 (Jan) 1986 105-118
The role of particles in Tamil relative clauses, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 1, no.2 (Mar 1984)175-197
Manickam, V.
Karai--an explanation, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 35 (Jun 1989) 47-52
Manickam, V. SP.
An introduction to the study of Tolkappiyam, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 1 (Sep 1972) 39-42
Manoharan, S
Personal names in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 19 (Jun 1981) 42-54
Social hierarchy and verbal behaviour: a case study of Tirunelveli District (Tamil Nadu), Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 3, no.1 (Jan-Jun 1976) 31-37
Meenakshi, K
AI and AU in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 5, no.2 (Jun 1976) 343-353
Sandhi, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 28 (Dec) 1985 14-37
Minakshisundaram, T.P.
Is the Tamil alphabet system an adaptation?, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 2 (Dec 1972) 10-12
Murugarathanam, T.
Tamilisation of Sanskrit words in middle Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) ( 1975) 387-398
Murugessa Mudaliar, N
Tamil prose style in theological writing, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 10 (Dec 1976) 56-70
Nadaraja Pillai, N.
The etymology of Tamil revisited, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 6 1979 1-6
Nayagam, Xavier S. Thani
Tolkappiyam--the earliest record, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 1 (Sep 1972) 61-70
Neethivanan, J.
State of linguistic studies in Tamil since 1980, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 17, no.1 (Jan 1988) 41-49
Niklas, Ulrike
Introduction to Tamil prosody, Bulletin de l'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient (Paris) 77, 1988 165-22
Ohno, Susumu
A study on the relationship between Tamil and Japanese: intervocalic stops in the two languages, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 12, no.2 (Jun) 1983 366-396
Padmanabha Pillai, B
Tamil reflexivization as a verbal feature, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 42 1981 70-74
Paramanthan, Kirupananthy
A bibliography of Sri Lanka Tamil linguistic studies, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 19, no.1 (Jan 1990) 107-124
Parthasarathi, J
Negation in modern formal Tamil, Agra University. Journal of Research (Letters) (Agra) 20, pt.1 (Jan 1972) 41-50
Perumal, V.
A comparative study of Tamil and Kannada proverbs, Vidya Bharathi (Bangalore) 4, no.2 ( 1978) 61-70
A comparative study of Tamil and Kannada proverbs, Journal of the Karnatak University: Humanities (Dharwar) 19 (1975) 40-50
Contribution of Tamil proverbs to medical sciences, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 32 (Dec 1987) 29-44
Tamil and Kannada proverbs, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 1975 527-535
Pushpavalli, K
Locative case in Tamil and Malayalam: a contrastive study Indian Linguistics (Pune) 38, no.1 (Mar 1977) 39-42
Co-ordinate conjunction in Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 36, no.1 (Mar 1975) 16-28
Radhakrishnan Mallassery, S.
Language of Malavedas, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 25 (Jun) 1984) 40-49
Radhakrishnan, R.
A note on a contextual grammar of semantics: the Tamil tradition, Anthropological Linguistics (Bloomington, IN) 14, no.1 (Jan 1972) 14-18
Raja Marthandan, C.
Phonology of kinship terms in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 13, no.2 (Jun) 1984 360-365
Rajaram, S
Tag-question in Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35, no.4 (Dec 1974) 260-264
Teaching of Tamil in Mauritius, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 27 (Jun) 1985 43-53
Rajendran, P
Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute (Pune, India) 37, nos.1-4 1977-1978 128-140
Rajendran, S
Verbs of cooking in Tamil, Working Papers in Linguistics (Honolulu) 1 (May 1976) 8-16
Temporal expressions in Tamil, Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute (Pune, India) 42 1983 138-147
Ramaswami, N.
Distinctive features of Tamil phonemes, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 43, nos.1-2 (Mar, Jun) 1982 12-16
Rule ordering controversy in phonology with reference to Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 41, nos.3-4 (Sep, Dec 1980 151-156
Rangan, K.
Some problems in Tamil passive constructions, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 40, no.4 (Dec 1979) 218-229
with Gnanasundaram, V: Negation in Mysore Tamil-- a sociolinguistic study, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 6, no.1 (Jan 1977) 76-84
Rauff, James V.
A proto-Dravidian reading of the fish songs of the Indus script, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 38 (Dec 1990) 1-2
Some structural aspects of the Indus script, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 31 (Jun 1987) 69-88
Safiullah, Syed
Urdu Tamil interaction at lexicon level, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 32, pt.1 1984 143-148
Sanjeevi, N
Earliest references to Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 27, pts.1&2 1977 1-9
Tamil idioms based on the numeral 'one': a micro-study, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) 28, pt.1 1978 1-20
Sankaranarayanan, G.
Address terms in Maratha Tamil records and their social implications, Journal of Asian Studies (Manila) 2, no.2 (Mar) 1985 23-43
Preparation of administrative terminology-the role of earlier inscriptions and records, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 24 (Dec) 1983 76-85
Sanmugadas, Arunasalam
A study of idiomatic usages in a Sri Lanka Tamil novel, Journal of Asian Studies (Manila) 2, no.2 (Mar) 1985 165-191
with Sanmugadas, Manonmani: Cultural similarities between Japanese and Tamils: a view through their words, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 4, no.1 (Sep 1986) 83-111
Schiffman, Harold F.
Diglossia and purity/pollution in Tamil, Contributions to Asian Studies (Leiden) 11 ( 1978) 98-110
Tamil complex negation revisited, In: Lakshmi Bai, B.; Ramakrishna Reddy, B., eds. Studies in Dravidian and general linguistics: a festschrift for Bh. Krishnamurti. Hyderabad: Centre of Advancd Study in Linguistics, Osmania University, 1991. 530p. 1991 186-197
The Tamil liquid, Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (Berkeley, CA) 6 ( 1980) 100-110
Causativity and the Tamil verbal base, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 5, no.2 (Jun 1976) 238-248
The Tamil aspectual system: a transformational grammar, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 11 (Jun 1977) 65-81; 9 (Jun 1976) 98-112; 6 (Dec 1974) 31-43; 5 (Sep 1974) 37-50; 4 (Dec 1973) 33-54; 3 (Sep 1973) 28-43; 2 (Dec 1972) 49-83
Intervocalic-v-deletion in Tamil: evidence for aspect as a morphological category, Journal of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, CT) 113, no.4 (Oct-Dec 1993) 513-528
Selvamony, Nirmal K.A.
CA-initial words in Tamil, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 7, no.1 (Sep 1989) 137-149
Shanmugam Pillai, M.
Child Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 34 (Dec 1988) 73-83
Head words for verbs in Tamil dictionaries, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 9, no.1 (Sep 1991) 135-144
Tolkappiyar's concept of voiced and voiceless sounds, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 32 (Dec 1987) 102-104
literary and colloquia, Linguistics (The Hague) no.81 (Apr 1, 1972) 83-91
Shanmugam, S.V.
Some problems in old Tamil phonology, Indo-Iranian Journal (The Hague) 13, no.1 1971 31-43
The phonological interpretation of dipthongs in old Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 34, no.2 (Jun 1973) 155-162
An evaluation of English Tamil dictionary, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 31 (Jun 1987) 59-68
Comparative Dravidian phonology and Tolkappiyam, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 36 (Dec 1989) 1-10
Fr. Beschi's contribution to Tamil grammar, Journal of the Annamalai University. Pt.A: Humanities (Annamalai Nagar) 35-36 1989-1990 137-146
Tamil as a medium of instruction, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 7, no.1 (Jan-Jun) 1980 1-13
Shanmugom, C.
Semantic information in lexical entries, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 32 (Dec 1987) 91-101
Sivasegaram, S
Diacritical devices in the Tamil script, Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (Peradeniya) 3, nos.1-2 1977 129-133
On developing a cursive script for Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 6, no.2 (Jun 1977) 214-222
Srinivasa Varma, G.
with Sakthivel, S: Tamil dialects, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 3, no.1 (Jan-Jun 1976) 38-45
Srinivasan, Radha
, Negation in Tamil, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 9, no.1 (Jan-Jun1982) 24-35
Three theoretical approaches to the description of negation in Tamil, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 4, no.2 (Jul-Dec 1977) 111-134; 5 1978 20-28
Steever, Sanford B.
On the etymology of the present tense in Tamil, Journal of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, CT) 109, no.2 (Apr-Jun 1989) 237-254
Subbiah, A.
Is the Tamil alphabet system an adaptation? Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 3 (Sep 1973) 64-74
Subramanian, S.V.
A note on kinship terms in Tamil, Annals of Oriental Research (Madras) ( 1975) 421-434
Novels in Dravidian languages (history & trends), Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 26 (Dec) 1984 65-81
Subramnaian, N.
The problem of translating English-Tamil and vice versa, Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 3, no.1 (Sep 1985) 87-99
Subramoniam, V.L.
The generation of the alapetai forms in early Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 4, no.1 (Jan 1975) 105-111
Sundaram, D.
with Vasantha Kumaran, T.: Geography of linguistic etiquette in Tamilnadu, Journal of the Madras University: Humanities (Madras) 59, no.2 (Jul 1987) 49-57
Suseendirarajah, S
Phonology of Srilanka Tamil and Indian Tamil contrasted, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 34, no.3 (Sep 1973) 171-179
Reflections of certain social differences in Jaffna Tamil, Anthropological Linguistics (Bloomington, IN) 12 no.7 (Oct 1970) 239-245
Some pronunciation problems of Tamil speakers learning English, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 33, no.1 (Jan-Mar 1972) 59-66
A note on animate-inanimate contrast in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 7 (Jun 1975) 50-51
A study of pronouns in Batticaloa Tamil, Anthropological Linguistics (Bloomington, IN) 15, no.4 (Apr 1973) 172-182
Indian Tamil and Sri Lanka Tamil: a study in contrast, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 2, no.2 (Jul-Dec 1975) 107-117
Thananjayarajasingham, S
The numeral system in Ceylon Tamil: a grammatical study, Acta Orientalia (Budapest) 29, no.3 1975 381-384
The pronoun and adverbial systems in Ceylon Tamil: a grammatical study, Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen) 38 1977 67-76
Adjectival system in Jaffna Tamil-a prosodic analysis, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35, no.1 (Mar 1974) 31-43
Nominal compounds in Ceylon Tamil: a grammatical analysis, Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen) 36 1974 157-160
The plosives after nasals in Jaffna Tamil-Kymographic evidence on voicing, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35, no.4 (Dec 1974) 294-299
Aspiration in Jaffna Tamil, Linguistics (The Hague) no.149 (Apr 1, 1975) 59-63
Nasalization in Jaffna Tamil, Linguistics (The Hague) no.149 (Apr 1, 1975 ) 65-73
The numeral system in Sri Lanka Tamil: a grammatical study, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 7 (Jun 1975) 19-22
Udaya Shankar, P.N.
Tense shift in Salem Telugu due to contact with Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 14, no.1 (Jan) 1985 69-78
Vacek, Jaroslav
Dravido-Altaic: the Mongolian and Dravidian verbal bases, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 23 (Jun) 1983 1-16
The Dravidian and Mongolian linguistic comparison, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 36 (Dec 1989) 22-27
The palatal nasal in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 7, no.2 (Jun 1978) 223-238
Vaidyanathan, S.
Morphology of modern Punjabi and Tamil: a comparison, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 16 (Dec 1979) 29-33
Sociolinguistics of Tamil, Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 7, no.1 (Jan-Jun) 1980 20-29
Veluppillai, A.
Some observations on negative forms in Tamil, Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (Peradeniya) 2, no.2 (Dec 1976) 146-152
Tamil in ancient Jaffna and Vallipuram gold plate, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 19 (Jun 1981) 1-14
Cleft sentences in Tamil, Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (Peradeniya) 7, nos.1-2 1981 82-106
Coordination in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 23 (Jun) 1983 26-43
Language variations in Sri Lanka Tamil inscriptions, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 14 (Dec 1978) 65-83
Locative terms in Tamil-a semantic and historical study, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 14, no.2 (Jun) 1985) 298-310
Modality in Jaffna Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 44, nos.1-4 1983 83-96
Opposition and contrast in Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 12, no.1 (Jan) 1983 149-165
Sentence connection in Tamil, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 30 (Dec) 1986 42-78
Tamil influence in ancient Sri Lanka with special reference to early Brahmi inscriptions, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 16 (Dec 1979) 63-77
Tamil influence in ancient Sri Lanka with special reference to early Brahmi inscriptions, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 17 (Jun 1980) 6-19
Vijayakrishnan, K.G
The syllable in phonological theory: arguments from Tamil, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences (Urbana) 11, no.2 (Fall 1981) 101-105
Watkin, Kenneth L
The phonological rules for the finite verb in Tamil, Indian Linguistics (Pune) 32, no.3 (Jul/Sep 1971) 165-178
Winters, Clyde Ahmad
A grammar of Dravido Harappan writing, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 35 (Jun 1989) 53-71
Further notes on Japanese and Tamil, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 13, no.2 (Jun) 1984 347-353
The Dravidian language and the Harappan script, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 36 (Dec 1989) 11-21
The Harappan script, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 30 (Dec) 1986 89-111
Tamil, Sumerian, Manding and the genetic model, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 18, no.1 (Jan 1989) 67-91
The Indus Valley writing is proto Dravidian, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 25 (Jun) 1984 50-64
Zvelebil, Kamil
The earliest account of the Tamil academies, Indo-Iranian Journal (The Hague) 15, no.2 1973 109-135
Word-borrowing and word-making in modern South Asian languages: Tamil, South Asian Digest of Regional Writing (Heidelberg) 4 1975 86-97
A Note on early history of Dravidology, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 27 (Jun) 1985 1-13
A case of misinterpretation Ainkurunuru 89, Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 33 (Jun 1988) 1-4
Tamil arukku: Irula okku: Tamil aruku oggu: a contribution to the development of proto-Dravidian, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum)19, no.1 (Jan 1990) 102-106
