Writing on Language and Culture

Women and Language Use in a South Indian Village, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics XII(2): 407-422, 1983.

Toward a Semiotics of Purity and Pollution in India, in Symbolism and Cognition. American Ethnologist 8(3): 575-595, 1981.

Ethnology and the Study of Proper Names, Anthropological Linguistics 22(7): 305-316, 1980.

The Evolution of A Market Gardening Village in India, The Eastern Anthropologist 33(1): 1-17, 1980.

How is the Study of Language Part of Anthropology: a Review of Language and Linguistics in Introductory Textbooks, Language in Society 8(1): 101-109, 1979.

The Meanings of Grammatical Number in Kannada, Anthropological Linguistics  17: 33-41, 1975.

Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address University of Chicago Press, 1978 Available at

Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address
University of Chicago Press, 1978

Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.   

Referential and Indexical Meanings of Amma in Kannada: Woman, Goddess, Pox and Help!, Journal of Anthropological Research  31: 313-330, 1975. Reprinted in Ronald Casson, ed., Language, Culture and Cognition. N.Y.: MacMillian, 1981.

An Exploration into the Semantics of Social Space in Kannada, in Harry Buck and Glenn Yocum, eds. Structural Approaches to South India Studies. Pp. 94-114. Chambersburg, Pa.: Wilson College, 1974.

Linguistic Variation and the Caste System in South Asia, Indian Linguistics 35: 277-293, 1974.

Kannada Kinship Terminology: Use and Meaning.. Columbia University Ph.D. Dissertation. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1972.   

Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd, American Anthropologist  72(3): 562-564, 1970.

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