Bhasha. Vol. 4, n. 1 - April 2025 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Department of Asian and North African Studies Sommario: ARTICLES Revisiting Passivity and Politeness in Selected Indic Languages Satyam Kumar, Chinmay Dharurkar Kirāti Toponyms: Semantic, Cultural and Ecological Interpretations Bhim Lal Gautam, Nirajan Rai, Tara Mani Rai The Emergence of Rhymed Meters in the Indo‑Aryan Prosody Ryosuke Masaoka Code‑Switching in South Asia: Comparing the Equivalence Constraint and Matrix Language Frame Models with Hinglish Anmol Sahni Sonorant Gemination in Old Tamil Ramprashanth Venkatakrishnan, Somdev Kar Semantics of Sanskrit Eva: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach Yuliang Zhou REVIEWS Alyssa Ayres Speaking Like a State. Language and Nationalism in Pakistan Marta Varini Bhasha. Vol. 4, n. 1 - Aprile 2025 application/pdf eISSN:2785‑5953 Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press hdl:11168/11.549554 doi:10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2025/01 eISSN: 2785‑5953 https://phaidra.unipd.it/o:549554 Table of contents: ARTICLES Revisiting Passivity and Politeness in Selected Indic Languages Satyam Kumar, Chinmay Dharurkar Kirāti Toponyms: Semantic, Cultural and Ecological Interpretations Bhim Lal Gautam, Nirajan Rai, Tara Mani Rai The Emergence of Rhymed Meters in the Indo‑Aryan Prosody Ryosuke Masaoka Code‑Switching in South Asia: Comparing the Equivalence Constraint and Matrix Language Frame Models with Hinglish Anmol Sahni Sonorant Gemination in Old Tamil Ramprashanth Venkatakrishnan, Somdev Kar Semantics of Sanskrit Eva: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach Yuliang Zhou REVIEWS Alyssa Ayres Speaking Like a State. Language and Nationalism in Pakistan Marta Varini eng 2025-07-01 CC BY 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Text