A Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena

Passives and Causatives in Marathi
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-29251-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

A Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena offers a comprehensive account of the formal and semantic aspects of the two most prominent voice phenomena in Marathi: the passive and the causative. Previous studies offer many partial insights into various aspects of Marathi’s passives and causatives. However, a comprehensive description of the formal, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of Marathi’s passives and causatives as not been available so far. Attempting to fill this gap, the present monograph offers a description in the functional-typological framework. At the same time it introduces the reader to the rich tradition of grammatical studies in Marathi, which up to now have remained inaccessible to those who are unfamiliar with the language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pardeshi, Prashant

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Prashant Pardeshi (Ph.D., Kobe University, 2000) is Professor at the Department of Crosslinguistic Studies, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan. He has published monographs and many articles on typological studies of Asian languages, including yutsuidoshi no tsugengoteki kenkyu: nihongo to shogengo no taishokenkyu kara miete kuru mono [A cross-linguistic study of lexical pairs of transitive and intransitive verbs: A glimpse from contrastive studies between Japanese and languages of the world], co-edited with Kazuyuki Kiryu, and Heiko Narrog, 2015.