The many ways of returning to the refrain in Telugu song
Paper in proceeding, 2019
Our main contribution is to point out that (L)R patterns are a striking feature of Telugu (TEL) song, remarkably various and profuse in both old and new songs, yet little remarked in the literature as far as we are aware. We give examples from the 15th c. to the 21st. In transcription, a colon marks long vowels, and M, nasalized ones. Retroflexion is shown by capitalization, and aspiration by h, also a consonant by itself. Glosses are given, some also /morpheme-wise/.
Kannada (KAN) and Tamil (TAM) share features with TEL that help make L(R)’s: fairly free word order, agglutinative particles, and adjectives and relative clauses preceding the noun. We give only lone KAN and TAM examples, but expect to find more when we search. Hindi (HIN) shares fewer features with TEL; perhaps therefore, we have so far looked but found few (L)R s in HIN.
Kannada
refrain
song
Tamil
lead-in
Telugu
Hindi
Author
K V S Prasad
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Functional Programming
Miki Nishioka
Osaka University
Prasanth Kolachina
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Functional Programming
Book of Abstracts, SALA-35, Inalco, Paris.
42-44
Paris, France,
Subject Categories
Other Humanities
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Specific Languages
Musicology