Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dayal (Editor), V Dayal (Editor), V. Dayal (Editor), Veneeta Dayal (Editor), Mahajan (Editor), Mahajan (Editor), Anoop Mahajan (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2005
• EAN: 9781402027178
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-2717-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Illustrations: VI, 322 p.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Syntax, C, Social Sciences, languages, Language: reference & general, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, East & Southeast Asian languages, Language and languages, Asian Languages, Comparative Linguistics, Oriental or Semitic Languages, Indo-Iranian Languages