Franklin C. Southworth (born 1929) is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

and Professor Emeritus of

South Asian South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;;;;; ...

linguistics at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

Publications

*''South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history'' in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013) *''Rice in Dravidian'' (2011) *''Proto-Dravidian Agriculture'' *''Linguistic archaeology of South Asia'' (2005) *''Prehistoric implications of the Dravidian element in the NIA lexicon, with special reference to Marathi'' (2005) *''Reconstructing social context from language: Indo-Aryan and Dravidian prehistory'' (1995) *''South Asian emblematic gestures'' (1992) *''The reconstruction of prehistoric South Asian language contact'' (1990) *''Linguistic archaeology and the Indus Valley culture'' (1989) *''Ancient economic plants of South Asia: linguistic archaeology and early agriculture'' (1988) *''The social context of language standardization'' (1985) *''Dravidian and Indo-European: the neglected relationship'' (1982) *''Lexical evidence for early contacts between Indo-Aryan and Dravidian'' (1979)

References

Living people Linguists from the United States University of Pennsylvania faculty 1929 births {{US-linguist-stub