V. Dayal / Anoop Mahajan (eds.)

Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

Herausgegeben:Dayal, V.; Mahajan, Anoop

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 61
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4020-2717-8
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781402027178
• ISBN-10: 1402027176
• Artikelnr.: 13886513

Autorenporträt

V. Dayal, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA / Anoop Mahajan, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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.