Singh Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics

2008
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-021150-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 209, 334 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia.The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability.Each volume will have three major sections:I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages.II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints.III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Students working in the Fields of South Asian Languages, Sociolinguistics, Language Studies, Grammar, Literature and Sociology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Rajendra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Editorial Preface;7
4;Transparency and Arbitrariness in Natural Language: Some Empirical Issues;11
5;Reduplication and ‘echo words’ in Hindi/Urdu;29
6;No Smoke without Fire: Invisible Agent. Constructions in South Asian Languages;71
7;A Pragmatic Account of the Hindi Presumptive;91
8;What’s So Subversive about Dravidian? Revisiting Finiteness in Dravidian Syntax;125
9;Dravidian Syntactic Typology: A Reply to Steever;171
10;North America;209
11;Linguistic Publications in Bengali (2000–2008): A Brief Review;225
12;South Africa;245
13;Linguistic Publications in Punjabi (2000–2008): A Brief Survey;251
14;Gregory D. S. Anderson. The Munda Verb: Typological Perspectives;273
15;Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and M. T. Hany Babu (eds.) – Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in Honour of K. A. Jayaseelan;281
16;Colin P. Masica (ed.) – Old and New Perspectives on South Asian Languages: Grammar and Semantics;288
17;Ghanshyam Sharma – Il dizionario di Hindi: Dizionario Hindi-Italiano, Italiano-Hindi;296
18;Bengali Determiner Phrase Revisited: A Response to Dasgupta and Ghosh;303
19;The Study of ‘Indian English’: What is It Good for?;315
20;Backmatter;327

Über Autor(innen)

Rajendra Singh, Université de Montréal, Canada.