theoretical descriptive linguistic studies south asian linguistics sinhalum south asian language jame w gair cornell university select edite barbara c lust volume collect twentynine publish unpublish papers linguist jame gair consider foremost western scholar srus lankan language sinhalum jaffna tamil range over thirty work consider issue variety indian language include hindus marathus tamil malayalam bengalus collection reflect wide range gair s interest morphosyntactic question question regard historical areal linguistics especially language contact diglossium extend language acquisition collect papers newly accessible volume provide important resource scholar language linguist interest theoretical issue gair explore april pp linecut oxford university press information linguistic title oxford visit oxford university press usa web site http www oupusa org 