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Reflections on verb agreement in Hindi and related languages

✍ Scribed by COMRIE, BERNARD

Book ID
111941290
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
840 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0024-3949

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Reflections on verb agreement in Hindi a
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✍ COMRIE, BERNARD πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1984 πŸ› Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 🌐 English βš– 840 KB

It is possible to state verb agreement in Hindi in terms of word order and surface case, with no reference to grammatical relations: the verb agrees with the leftmost phonologically null instance of case marking (Saksena 1981: 468). It is questioned whether this is, however, the correct statement of

Reply to Saksena: Further reflections on
Reply to Saksena: Further reflections on verb agreement in Hindi
✍ COMRIE, BERNARD πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1985 πŸ› Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 🌐 English βš– 711 KB

Saksena (this issue) fails to respond to the challenges offered in Comrie (1984), in particular the call to view Hindi verb agreement against the background of a general linguistic approach to verb agreement, and thereby threatens to disrupt the fruitful interplay between work on Hindi and general l