Franklin Southworth
American linguist (1929–2025)
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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]
BornJune 28, 1929
DiedSeptember 16, 2025 (aged 96)
OccupationLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Franklin C. Southworth | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 28, 1929 |
| Died | September 16, 2025 (aged 96) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Main interests | Dravidian languages |
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)
