At the outset I express my thanks to all the informants in Bangalore City , who have spared their time and showed extreme patience while eliciting the data.

 

            My thanks are due to Dr. D. P. Pattanayak, Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages for encouraging me in taking this project and Dr. M. V. Sreedhar, Deputy Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages for supervising this work at various stages of analysis.

 

            I am greatly indebted to Dr. M. S. Thirumalai, Deputy Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages for his thought provoking suggestions, on the basis of which the report was revised and finalized.  Also, his sincere efforts in making this report published cannot be left unthanked.

 

            My sincere thanks are due to Miss Jennifer Bayer for helping me in collecting the data and also for her fruitful suggestions while writing the report.  I am also thankful to all of my colleagues in Central Institute of Indian Languages, who have helped me in various stages of analysis.

 

            I am thankful to Mr. N. H. Itagi for the excellent cover design.

 

            I take this opportunity to thank Mr. E. N. Mascrenhas and Mr. C. S. Giri for the excellent typescript and Mr. V. Gopal for his help and co-operation.  I thank Mr. S. B. Biswas, Manager, CIIL Press, for this guidance and all the staff of the Printing Press for neatly executing the work.

 

            It is not complete if I do not thank Mr. H. L. N. Bharati, for the pains he has taken to supervise and the interest he has shown to produce this book.

             Sam Mohan Lal