Dayal / Mahajan Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-2719-2
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 322 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages.Clause Structure in South Asian Languages : provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages;provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages;gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics;contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dayal, V.

Mahajan, Anoop

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Functional Projections.- Some Developments in the Functional Architecture of the Kannada Clause.- Two Types of Negation in Bengali.- Argument Structure.- The Serial Verb Construction in Malayalam.- Causation and Reflexivity in Kannada.- Light Verb Raising, Empty Preposition and Zero Derivation.- Case Theory.- The Status of Case.- Structural Case, Lexical Case and the Verbal Projection.- Movement Phenomena.- Particle Movement in Sinhala and Japanese.- The Topic Interpretation in Universal Grammar.- Remarks on Adsentential, Adnominal, and Extraposed Relative Clauses in Hindi.