James Lindholm

   
CONTACT INFORMATION:

Senior Lecturer in Tamil
Ph.D. University of Chicago


Field Specialties:

Tamil language; grammar and semantics; second language pedagogy.

The University of Chicago
1130 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: (773) 702-0627
Fax: (773) 834-3254
Email: lindholm@uchicago.edu


Research interests:

Semantics of grammatical categories, structural issues in language and thought, language use and language change in relation to culture and society.



Publications include:

1993. “The cremation ground canto” [translated from the Tamil short story by Vannanilavan]. Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter, Spring 1992).

1993. “Pain” [translated from the Tamil short story by Pumani]. Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Winter, Spring 1992).

1980. With K. Paramasivan. A Basic Tamil Reader and Grammar, 3 vols. [with audiocassettes and/or CDs for both ‘written’ and ‘spoken’ varieties of Tamil]. Evanston: Tamil Language Study Association.

1980. “A note on the nobility of women in popular Tamil fiction.&” In Susan S. Wadley (ed.), The Powers of Tamil Women, Syracuse: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

1976. “Nested case relations and the subject in Tamil.” In Manindra K. Verma (ed.), The Notion of Subject in South Asian Languages, Madison: South Asian Studies Center, University of Wisconsin.

1974. “The constraints of grammar, the perception of the relations between sequential events, and speaker strategies.” Paper presented at the IIIrd Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Etc., Georgetown University.

1972. “Cleft sentences in Tamil and Malayalam.” In V. I. Subramoniam (ed.), Proceedings of the First All-India Conference of Dravidian Linguists, Trivandrum: Dravidian Linguistics Association.

1969. “Negative-raising and sentence pronominalization.” In Robert Binnick et al. (eds.), Papers from the 5th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.



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