Franklin C. Southworth is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of South Asian Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.
South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (2013)Rice in Dravidian (2011)Proto-Dravidian AgricultureLinguistic 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)