Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in - Hind

Informationen zum Autor Rajesh Kumar teaches Hindi at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest lies of South Asian and Tibeto-Burman Languages. Klappentext Syntactic analysis of the licensing of negative polarity items. Zusammenfassung Studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. This book outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Clause Structure of Hindi; Chapter 3 Syntax of Negation in Hindi: Description and Representation; Chapter 4 Negative Polarity Items in Hindi and the Structural Conditions on Their Licensing; Chapter 5 Syntactic Constraints on NPIs in Hindi;

Product details

• Authors: Rajesh Kumar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2006
• EAN: 9780415976466
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97646-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indic Languages, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism