Diachrony of linguistic features in South Asian Languages

拟议项目的主要目标是对18种现代和前现代的新印度雅利安语（NIA）和新南德拉威语（NSD）语言的236种类型特征的区域趋势进行历史描述，包括克什米尔语、昌比亚利语、加尔赫瓦利语、库马奥尼语、旁遮普语、拉贾斯坦语、布拉吉语、阿瓦迪语、尼泊尔语、迈提利语、阿萨姆语、孟加拉语、马拉蒂语、康卡尼语、达克希尼语（印度雅利安语）以及卡纳达语、马拉雅拉姆语和泰米尔语（德拉威语）。该项目将利用并促进现有的类型学平台，尤其是基尔南亚类型学数据库。将整个次大陆两个不同语系的个别语言的历史和现代数据结合起来，将有助于更好地了解这些语言的结构变化，特别是在语言接触方面，而且将超越简单地查明与一个语言地区有关的特征。在这样做的过程中，它也将作为发展一种普遍感兴趣的接触情况类型学的基础，而不仅仅是南亚语言学。

The main objective of the proposed project is to develop a historical account of areal trends with respect to (presently) 236 typological features in 18 modern and pre-modern varieties of New Indo-Aryan (NIA) and New South Dravidian (NSD) languages, including Kashmiri, Chambiyali, Garhwali, Kumaoni, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Braj, Awadhi, Nepali, Maithili, Assamese, Bengali, Ma-rathi, Konkani, Dakkhini (Indo-Aryan), and Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil (Dravidian). The pro-ject will make use of and contribute to existing typological platforms, above all the Kiel South Asian Typological Database. The combination of historical and modern data for individual languages from two different families from throughout the subcontinent will contribute to a better understand-ing of structural changes in these languages, in particular with respect to language contact, and will go beyond simply identifying features pertaining to a linguistic area. In doing so it will also serve as a basis for developing a typology of contact situations of general interest beyond just South Asian linguistics.