Franklin Southworth

Franklin C. Southworth (born 1929)^[1] is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of South Asian linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.^[2]

Franklin C. Southworth
Born	1929
Nationality	American
Occupation	Linguist
Academic work
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Main interests	Dravidian languages

Publications

• South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013)^[3]
• Rice in Dravidian (2011)^[4]
• Proto-Dravidian Agriculture^[5]
• 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

1. OCLC
2. Southworth, Franklin C. "upenn.edu profile page". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
3. Franklin C. Southworth, David W. McAlpin (2013). "30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history". South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm830. ISBN 9781444334890.
4. Southworth, Franklin (2012). "Rice in Dravidian". Rice. 4 (3–4): 142–148. doi:10.1007/s12284-011-9076-9.
5. Southworth, Franklin C. "Proto-Dravidian Agriculture" (PDF). upenn. Retrieved 25 March 2014.