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American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council: Grant for Research on Language Loyalty in Sri Lanka. |
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Graduate School Research Fund, University of Washington: Spring quarter 1976. "Language Loyalty in the German-American Church." |
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Office of Education, Institute of International Studies: Contract: Reader for Advanced Spoken Tamil, 1971; Grant: Reference Grammar of Spoken Kannada, 1979. |
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National Endowment for the Humanities: Three-year Grant for English-Tamil Dictionary, 1984-88. Smithsonian Institution: Grant for support of English-Tamil Dictionary in India, 1984-88. Graduate School Research Fund R.A.-ship, Autumn-winter, 1985-86. |
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Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright): Three-month award for research in Singapore and Malaysia, 1994. |
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The Henry R. Luce Foundation: Luce Professorship in Language Learning, University of Pennsylvania. |
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US Department of Education: Support for An Electronic Dictionary of the Tamil Verb. 2004-6 |
