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, ligh
The lexicon-syntax interface: perspectives from South Asian languages
β Scribed by Chandra, Pritha;Richa
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 283
- Series
- Linguistik aktuell
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
- Acknowledgement
2. The lexicon-syntax interface: Some issues (by Chandra, Pritha)
3. Property concepts and the apparent lack of adjectives in Dravidian (by Menon, Mythili)
4. Adjective-fronting as evidence for Focus and Topic within the Bangla nominal domain (by Syed, Saurov)
5. Rich results (by Amritavalli, R.)
6. Lexical semantics of transitivizer light verbs in Telugu (by Balusu, Rahul)
7. Ditransitive structures in Hindi/Urdu (by Malhotra, Shiti)
8. Is Kashmiri passive really a passive? (by Srishti, Richa)
9. Middles in the syntax (by Chandra, Pritha)
10. Not so high: The case of causee in South Asian Languages (Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi & Manipuri) (by Srishti, Richa)
11. Agreement and verb types in Kutchi Gujarati (by Grosz, Patrick Georg)
12. Markedness and syncretism in Kashmiri differential argument encoding (by Manetta, Emily)
13. Author index
14. Subject index
β¦ Subjects
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax;Lexicology;Second language acquisition;Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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