Sanford B. Steever

The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliary verbs of Modern Tamil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000082753
• Artikelnr.: 59075827

Autorenporträt

Sanford B Steever holds three degrees in Linguistics and a diploma in Tamil. The author of four books and fifty articles on Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Dravidian Linguistics and Tamil, he spent three years of study and fieldwork in India. He has been a member of the Linguistics Society of America for thirty years and is a life member of the Dravidian Linguistics Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and conventions List of figures and
tables 1. Auxiliary Formation 2. The Tamil background 3. Tamil verb
morphology 4. The internal syntax of the Tamil indicative AVC 5. The
external syntax of the Tamil indicative AVC 6. The major indicative
auxiliary verbs of Tamil 7. The minor indicative auxiliary verbs of Tamil
8. Auxiliaries of attitude and abuse 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index.