| I am grateful
to my teacher Dr. M. S. Thirumalai, the then Professor-
cum-Deputy Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages
for guiding and supervising my work from choice of topic
to submission of the dissertation.
I am immensely grateful to the Central Institute of
Indian Languages for the excellent ethos it provided
me with during my research.
I am grateful to Dr. D. P. Pattanayak, former Director,
Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore for according
permission to conduct this research.
I remember with gratitude all the help rendered to
me by late Dr. Jayavant S. Kulli, with whom I had a
long association as a student. I dedicate this dissertation
to him.
With due respect I acknowledge the help that I have
received from Dr. M. M. Kalburgi, Professor in Kannada
and Dr. William Madtha, Professor in Linguistics of
the Institute of Kannada Studies, Karnatak University,
Dharwar.
Some of the rare works were made available to me for
consultation by Shri. Jothi Ramalingam, I.A.S., Assistant
Commissioner, Madikeri, Shri B.D. Subbayya, Shri B.D.
Ganapati, Shri K.M. Chinnappa, are some of my resource
persons. Shri S. Raju typed the dissertation with patience,
Shri N.H. Itagi, prepared the map of the study area,
Shri A.R. Basavaraju helped me in work connected with
this thesis. I am thankful to all of them.
I am thankful to the authorities of Karnataka University,
Dharwad for their kind permission to publish this work.
It is with gratitude, love, affection and admiration
that I remember my parent Shri A. Channaveeraiah at
the time of the submission of the dissertation.
Last but not the least, this work would not have been
completed without the co-operation of my informants.
I thank all of them, more specifically Shri Bolka.
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