The Lexicon–Syntax Interface

Perspectives from South Asian languages
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-272-5592-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 209, 275 Seiten, Gewicht: 655 g

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chandra, Pritha

Srishti, Richa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie