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 Agriculture
Linguistic 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)
