Trends in Hindi Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Ghanshyam Sharma (editor); Rajesh Bhatt (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 325
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Trends in Hindi Linguistics provides a snapshot of current developments in Hindi syntax and semantics and covers topics such as definiteness marking, comparative constructions with differentials, conjunct verbs, participial relative clauses, ellipsis, scrambling, infinitives and directive strategies. Together these papers give a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research on Hindi.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Acknowledgements
Transliteration
(In)definiteness without articles: diagnosis, analysis, implications
Differential comparatives in Hindi-Urdu
The structure of complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis
Case licensing in Hindi prenominal relative clauses
Constraints on attributive functions of Hindi perfect participles manifesting the resultant state
On the nature of the Hindi infinitive: History as an answer to its syntactic behavior?
Main verb form in structures of ability/possibility in Hindi
Agreement in conjunct verb construction: let’s solve the problem
Conjunct verbs in Hindi
Impersonal expressions in Hindi-Urdu and phantom valents in Kashmiri
An attempt to understand the encoding of reduced transitivity in Hindi: the case of compound verbs with jānā
Syntactic constraints in modern Hindi
A pragmatic account of directive strategies in Hindi
Discovering the Hindi grammatical tradition: Historicity and second language acquisition
List of contributors
Index