Published work - Tamil

Bonta, S. (2008). Negombo Fishermen's Tamil (NFT): A Sinhala influenced dialect from a bilingual Sri Lankan community. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. XXXVII(2), 133–140.

Bonta, S. (2010). Negombo fishermen's Tamil: A case of indo-aryan contact-induced change in a dravidian dialect. Anthropological Linguistics, 52(3), 310-343.

Canagarajah, A. S. (1995). The political economy of code choice in a “revolutionary society”: Tamil-English bilingualism in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Language in Society. 24, 187-212. Abstract.

David,K. (1973). Until Marriage Do Us Part: A Cultural Account of Jaffna Tamil Categories for Kinsman. Man, 8(4), new series, 521-535. doi:10.2307/2800737. Preview.

Davis, C. P. (2012). “Is Jaffna Tamil the Best?” Producing “Legitimate”Language in a Multilingual Sri Lankan School. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 22(2), E61–E82.

Davis, C. P. (2015), Speaking Conflict: Ideological Barriers to Bilingual Policy Implementation in Civil War Sri Lanka. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 46, 95–112.

Davis, C. (2018). Muslims in Sri Lankan language politics: A study of Tamil- and English-medium Education. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2018. 125-147.

Gair, J. W. (1976). The Verb in Sinhala, with some Preliminary remarks on Dravidianization. International Journal on Dravidian Linguistics.10(8), 259–273.

Gair, J. W. (1985). Sinhala Focused Sentences: Naturalization of a Calque. In B. Krishnamurti, C. P. Masica & A. K. Sinha (Eds.), South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia (147–164). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.153–169).

Gair, J. & Suseendirarajah, S. (1981). Aspects of the Jaffna Tamil Verbal System. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. 10(2), 370–384. (Partially reprinted in Gair, 1998, pp.170–181).

Gair, J. & Suseendirarajah, S. (1998). Some aspects of the Jaffna Tamil Verbal System. In J. W. Gair & B. Lust (Ed.), Sinhala and Other South East Asian Languages (pp.170-182). New York, Oxford: OUP.

Gair, J. W., Suseendirarajah, W. & Karunatillake, W. S. (1979). Spoken [Sri Lanka Jaffna] Tamil. Sri Lanka: University of Sri Lanka Press.

Hoogervorst, T. G. (2015). Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil. Wacana, 16(2), 249-283.

Kailainathan, R. (2008). Contrastive study of Tamil and Sinhala modal auxiliaries. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.87-104). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Karunatillake, W. S. & Suseendirarajah, S. (1975). Pronouns of address in Tamil and Sinhalese: A sociolinguistics study. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, 4(1), 83-96.

Mahroof, M. (1995). Spoken Tamil Dialects of the Muslims of Sri Lanka: Language as Identity-Classifier. Islamic Studies,34(4), 407-426.

Paramanathan, K. (1990). A bibliography of sri lanka tamil linguistic studies. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (IJDL), 19, 107.

Sathasivam, A. (1970). Linguistics in Ceylon (II): Tamil. In T. A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics. Vol 5 (pp.752-759). The Hague: Mouton & Co.

Slomanson, P. (2011). Dravidian Features in the Sri Lankan Malay Verb. In C. Lefebvre (Ed.), Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Sundaresan, S., & McFadden, T. (2009). ʻSubject Distribution in Tamil and Other Languages: Selection vs. Caseʼ. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2, 5-34.

Suseendirarajah. S. (Oct 1970). Reflections of Certain Social Differences in Jaffna Tamil. Anthropological Linguistics, 12 (7), 239-245. Abstract.

Suseendirarajah, S. (1973). Phonology of Sri Lanka Tamil and Indian Tamil contrasted. Indian Linguistics, 34(3), 171–179.

Suseendirarajah, S. (1973). A study of pronouns in Batticaloa Tamil. Anthropological Linguistics, 15(4), 172–182. Preview.

Suseendirarajah, S. (Jun 1975). A note on animate-inanimate contrast in Tamil. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 7, 50-51.

Suseendirarajah, S. (Jul-Dec 1975). Indian Tamil and Sri Lanka Tamil: a study in contrast. Indian Journal of Linguistics (Calcutta) 2, (2), 107-117.

Suseendirarajah, S. (1978). Caste and Language in Jaffna Society. Anthropological Linguistics, 20(7), 312-319. Preview.

Suseendirarajah, S. (1980). Religion and language in Jaffna society. Anthropological Linguistics, 22(8), 345-362. Preview.

Suseendirarajah, S. (1993). Jaffna Tamil. Jaffna: University of Jaffna.

Suseendirarajah, S. (2008). Tamil language in Sri Lanka and some of its archaisms and peculiarities. In R.M.W. Rajapaksha, K.Kulasekara, J. Paolillo & T.R.G. Dela Bandara (Eds.), Dakkhina: Papers on Buddhist thought, linguistics and Sri Lankan culture. A felicitation volume presented to James Wells Gair on his 80th birthday. (pp.67-86). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Godage International Publishers (Pvt) Ltd.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1974). Nominal compounds in Ceylon Tamil: a grammatical analysis. Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen) 36, 157-160.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1974). Adjectival system in Jaffna Tamil-a prosodic analysis. Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35, 131-43.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1974). The plosives after nasals in Jaffna Tamil-Kymographic evidence on voicing. Indian Linguistics (Pune) 35 (4), 294-299.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1975). The numeral system in Ceylon Tamil: a grammatical study. Acta Orientalia (Budapest) 29(3), 381-384.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1975). Aspiration in Jaffna Tamil. Linguistics, 149, 59-63.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1975). Nasalization in Jaffna Tamil, Linguistics, 149, 65-73.

Thananjayarajasingham, S. (1975). The numeral system in Sri Lanka Tamil: a grammatical study. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 7, 19-22.

Thananjayarajasingham, S.(1977). The pronoun and adverbial systems in Ceylon Tamil: a grammatical study. Acta Orientalia (Copenhagen) 38, 67-76.

Veluppillai, A. (1976). Some observations on negative forms in Tamil. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (Peradeniya) 2, (2), 146-152

Veluppillai, A. (Dec 1978). Language variations in Sri Lanka Tamil inscriptions. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 14, 65-83.

Veluppillai, A. (Dec 1979). Tamil influence in ancient Sri Lanka with special reference to early Brahmi inscriptions. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras), 16, 63-77.

Veluppillai, A. (Jun 1980). Tamil influence in ancient Sri Lanka with special reference to early Brahmi inscriptions. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 17, 6-19. Preview.

Veluppillai, A. (1981). Cleft sentences in Tamil. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities (Peradeniya) 7(1-2), 82-106.

Veluppillai, A. (1981). Tamil in ancient Jaffna and Vallipuram gold plate. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 19, 1-14.

Veluppillai, A. (1983). Modality in Jaffna Tamil. Indian Linguistics (Pune) 44 (1-4), 83-96.

Veluppillai, A. (1983). Opposition and contrast in Tamil. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 12 (1), 149-165.

Veluppillai, A. (1983). Coordination in Tamil. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 23, 26-43.

Veluppillai, A. (1985). Locative terms in Tamil-a semantic and historical study. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum) 14(2), 298-310.

Veluppillai, A. (1986). Sentence connection in Tamil. Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 30, 42-78.

Zvelebil, K. V. (1966). Some Features of Ceylon Tamil. Indo-Iranian Journal, 9(2), 113–138. Preview.

Zvelebil, K. V. (1970). Tamil. In T. A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics. Vol 5 (pp.343-371). The Hague: Mouton & Co.