Franklin Southworth

Franklin C. Southworth
Born(1929-06-28)June 28, 1929
Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedSeptember 16, 2025(2025-09-16) (aged 96)
OccupationLinguist
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Main interestsDravidian languages

Franklin Chester Southworth III (June 28, 1929 – September 16, 2025) was an American linguist and professor of South Asian linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Southworth was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, on June 28, 1929,[2] and died on September 16, 2025, at the age of 96.[3]

Publications

  • "South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history" in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013)[4]
  • Rice in Dravidian (2011)[5]
  • Proto-Dravidian Agriculture[6]
  • 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. ^ Southworth, Franklin C. "upenn.edu profile page". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  2. ^ OCLC
  3. ^ "Franklin Southworth Obituary - New York, NY". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Southworth, Franklin (2012). "Rice in Dravidian". Rice. 4 (3–4): 142–148. doi:10.1007/s12284-011-9076-9.
  6. ^ Southworth, Franklin C. "Proto-Dravidian Agriculture" (PDF). upenn. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
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