The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages

✍ Scribed by Pritha Chandra, Richa Srishti

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.

✦ Table of Contents

Pritha Chandra & Richa Srishti: The lexicon-syntax interface. Some issues
Mythili Menon: Property concepts and the apparent lack of adjectives in Dravidian
Saurov Syed: Adjective-fronting as evidence for Focus and Topic within the Bangla nominal domain
R. Amritavalli: Rich results
Rahul Balusu: Lexical semantics of transitivizing light verbs in Telugu
Shiti Malhotra: Ditransitive structures in Hindi/Urdu
Richa Srishti & Shahid Bhat: Is Kashmiri passive really passive?
Pritha Chandra: Middles in the syntax
Richa Srishti: Not so high. The case of causee in South Asian Languages (Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi & Manipuri)
Patrick Grosz & Pritty Patel-Grosz: Agreement and verb types in Kutchi Gujarati
Emily Manetta: Markedness and syncretism in Kashmiri differential argument encoding

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Синтаксис;