Harold F Schiffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 223898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold F Schiffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold F |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiffman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIFFMAN H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Tamil Liquids
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 100-110
Language Policy and Multilingualism
Language policy as a field of inquiry, rather than as a human activity, dates from the mid‐point of the 20th century, when researchers of various sorts began to study the effects of language planning, which had gone on long before scholars turned their attention to it.
The language policy of state drivers’ license testing: Expediency, symbolism, or creeping incrementalism
The Ausbau issue in the Dravidian languages: The case of Tamil and the problem of purism
Tamil is a Dravidian language that began to try to develop itself, i.e., undergo Ausbau , when the perception developed that there was a threat from other languages to its very existence. In this study I claim that Tamil linguistic culture's Ausbau project has had limited success, principally because of an excessive concern with and devotion to purism. That is, rather than apply a number of different strategies for vocabulary (i.e., “word-formati…
Revisiting the sociolinguistics of Occitan: A Presentation
Tariq Rahman. Language, ideology and power: Language-learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India
Tongue-Tied in Singapore: A Language Policy for Tamil
The Tamil situation in Singapore is one that lends itself ideally to the study of minority-language maintenance. The Tamil community is small. Tamils constitute only 4% of the population, whereas Indians constitute around 7%. The history and demographics of the Tamil community are well known. The Singapore educational system supports a well-developed and comprehensive bilingual education program for its three major linguistic communities on an eg…
Response to Sanford B. Steever's Review of A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil
Response to Sanford B. Steever’s Review of A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil Harold Schiffman Sanford Steever has written an extremely negative review (Language 78(2).314–16) of my1999 grammar. In fact it appears to me to be the most negative thing I have ever seen anywhere in any journal, in my entire academic career. The review’s criticisms can be divided into two categories. One is on the issue of copyediting, typographical errors, and other…
Malaysian Tamils and Tamil linguistic culture
Standardization or restandardization: The case for "Standard" Spoken Tamil
The Tamil language has had its current standard written form since the 13th century; but because of increasing diglossia, spoken Tamil dialects have now diverged so radically from earlier norms, including the written standard (LT, or Literary Tamil) that no spoken dialect, regional or social, can function as the koiné or lingua franca. Because LT is never used for authentic informal oral communication between live speakers, there has always been …
Linguistic Culture and Language Policy
Linguistic Culture and Language Policy expose language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language politics evolve the way they do, why they work, or not and how people's lives are effected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual / multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.
Intervocalic - v - Deletion in Tamil: Evidence for Aspect as a Morphological Category
Cet article presente une etude sur la suppression du -V- intervocalique en tamoul. L'A. montre que l'aspect verbal n'est pas un processus syntaxique et apporte les preuves de son appartenance a la morphologie derivationnelle
The balance of power in multiglossic languages: Implications for Language Shift
Article The balance of power in multiglossic languages: implications for language shift was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 103)
Geolinguistics: Language Dynamics and Ethnolinguistic Geography
Linguistic Anthropology: The Indo‐Aryan Languages . Colin P. Masica. Cambridge Language Surveys
Resisting arrest’ in status planning: Structural and covert impediments to status change
The Serial Verb Formation in the Dravidian Languages
Analyzing a Speech Event: The Bush-Rather Exchange A (not very) Dramatic Dialogue
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
Losing the Battle for Balanced Bilingualism: The German-American Case
Der verlorene Kampf um zweisprachiges Gleichgewicht bei den Deutschen in Amerika Diese Studie vergleicht die sprachliche Assimilierung von zwei verschiedenen Konfessionen deutsch-amerikanischer Kirchen, der Evangelischen Synode des Westens (später Teil der Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirche) und der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Synode von Missouri und anderen Staaten, heute allgemein bekannt als die "Missouri Lutheran Church." Trotz ihrer unterschiedlic…
A Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada
Negation in Tamil: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects
Language and Linguistic Area: Essays
Language and Society in South Asia
Linguistic Composition of the Nations of the World: Volume 1, Central and Western South Asia
Language and Society in South Asia
Linguistic Culture and Language Policy
Linguistic Culture and Language Policy expose language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language politics evolve the way they do, why they work, or not and how people's lives are effected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual / multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.
Tongue-Tied in Singapore: A Language Policy for Tamil
The Tamil situation in Singapore is one that lends itself ideally to the study of minority-language maintenance. The Tamil community is small. Tamils constitute only 4% of the population, whereas Indians constitute around 7%. The history and demographics of the Tamil community are well known. The Singapore educational system supports a well-developed and comprehensive bilingual education program for its three major linguistic communities on an eg…
Standardization or restandardization: The case for "Standard" Spoken Tamil
The Tamil language has had its current standard written form since the 13th century; but because of increasing diglossia, spoken Tamil dialects have now diverged so radically from earlier norms, including the written standard (LT, or Literary Tamil) that no spoken dialect, regional or social, can function as the koiné or lingua franca. Because LT is never used for authentic informal oral communication between live speakers, there has always been …
Losing the Battle for Balanced Bilingualism: The German-American Case
Der verlorene Kampf um zweisprachiges Gleichgewicht bei den Deutschen in Amerika Diese Studie vergleicht die sprachliche Assimilierung von zwei verschiedenen Konfessionen deutsch-amerikanischer Kirchen, der Evangelischen Synode des Westens (später Teil der Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirche) und der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Synode von Missouri und anderen Staaten, heute allgemein bekannt als die "Missouri Lutheran Church." Trotz ihrer unterschiedlic…
The balance of power in multiglossic languages: Implications for Language Shift
Article The balance of power in multiglossic languages: implications for language shift was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1993, issue 103)
Language and Society in South Asia
Revisiting the sociolinguistics of Occitan: A Presentation
Analyzing a Speech Event: The Bush-Rather Exchange A (not very) Dramatic Dialogue
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
Malaysian Tamils and Tamil linguistic culture
Resisting arrest’ in status planning: Structural and covert impediments to status change
Three-valued Typology for Sensitivity Training and Encounter Groups
Prediction of College Performance with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Simulation of Mental Deficiency: The Stupid-Reader Effect
Word Association: Variables Affecting Popular-Response Frequency
Normal Ss were given 54 Kent-Rosanoff word-association-test items in one of two different orders; antonym-eliciting items were concentrated either (a) near the beginning or (b) near the end of the list. For each order, testing was administered under three different test conditions: (a) standard free-association instructions, (b) instructions to give the response “most people” would give, and (c) “most people” instructions with a multiple-choice t…
Studies in Indian Linguistics: Professor M. B. Emeneau ṣaṣṭipūrti Volume
Three-valued Typology for Sensitivity Training and Encounter Groups
Dravidian Verb Morphology (A Comparative Study)
Dravidian Nouns (A Comparative Study)
The Kollimalai Tamil Dialect
Frequency of episodic memories as a function of their age
Vyāsanga Śikṣaka, Vol. I (A Hundred-Hour Intensive Bridge Course in Kannada for College Entrants)
Tripuri Phonetic Reader
Thaadou Phonetic Reader
Dravidian Phonological Systems
Linguistic Composition of the Nations of the World: Volume 1, Central and Western South Asia
Language and Society in South Asia
Negation in Tamil: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects
Language and Linguistic Area: Essays
Language and Society in South Asia
A Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada
Losing the Battle for Balanced Bilingualism: The German-American Case
Der verlorene Kampf um zweisprachiges Gleichgewicht bei den Deutschen in Amerika Diese Studie vergleicht die sprachliche Assimilierung von zwei verschiedenen Konfessionen deutsch-amerikanischer Kirchen, der Evangelischen Synode des Westens (später Teil der Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirche) und der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Synode von Missouri und anderen Staaten, heute allgemein bekannt als die "Missouri Lutheran Church." Trotz ihrer unterschiedlic…
Analyzing a Speech Event: The Bush-Rather Exchange A (not very) Dramatic Dialogue
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
The Serial Verb Formation in the Dravidian Languages
Geolinguistics: Language Dynamics and Ethnolinguistic Geography
Linguistic Anthropology: The Indo‐Aryan Languages . Colin P. Masica. Cambridge Language Surveys
Resisting arrest’ in status planning: Structural and covert impediments to status change
Linguistics (29 works) · Philosophy (28 works) · History (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Tamil (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (7 works)