Subversion or convergence? The issue of pre-Vedic retroflexion reexamined

Abstract

developments of the well-established alveolars to dentals in more western Dravidian and retroflexes in more eastern Dravidian.Alternative explanations of the observed data either are unnecessarily complex or are lacking in explanation.The finding that the developments are the result of convergence, not of subversion, is significant, for it suggests that the social relationship between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian speakers in early India was not substantially different from what it is today-a relationship of (near-)equality, rather that the traditional picture of marauding Indo-Aryan invaders suppressing an indigenous Dravidian popula- tion and forcing it to learn their language.1.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 23 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.