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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
• Modernization in Tamil,
  Anthropological Linguistics (Bloomington, IN) 17, no.2 (Feb 1975) 53-67
• 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

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  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

Tolkappiyam–Eluttatikaram phonology,
Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 1 (Sep 1972) 43-60; 2 (Dec 1972) 13-29; 3 (Sep 1973) 17-27; 4 (Dec 1973) 13-23; 5 (Sep 1974) 34-36; 7 (Jun 1975) 62-66; 8 (Dec 1975) 8-11

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

Tolkappiyam Collatikaram, -morphology -syntax,
Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 13 (Jun 1978) 79-86; 20 (Dec 1981) 5-14; 28 (Dec 1985) 67-80

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