Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

✍ Scribed by R. Amritavalli (auth.), Veneeta Dayal, Anoop Mahajan (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 61
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages.

Clause Structure in South Asian Languages:

• provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages;
• provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages;
• gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics;
• contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Some Developments in the Functional Architecture of the Kannada Clause....Pages 13-38
Two Types of Negation in Bengali....Pages 39-66
The Serial Verb Construction in Malayalam....Pages 67-91
Causation and Reflexivity in Kannada....Pages 93-130
Light Verb Raising, Empty Preposition and Zero Derivation....Pages 131-152
The Status of Case....Pages 153-198
Structural Case, Lexical Case and the Verbal Projection....Pages 199-225
Particle Movement in Sinhala and Japanese....Pages 227-252
The Topic Interpretation in Universal Grammar....Pages 253-289
Remarks on Adsentential, Adnominal, and Extraposed Relative Clauses in Hindi....Pages 291-311
Back Matter....Pages 313-322

✦ Subjects

Asian Languages; Comparative Linguistics; Indo-Iranian Languages; Syntax