Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

2004
ISBN: 978-1-4020-2717-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 322 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1430 g

Reihe: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahajan, Anoop

Dayal, V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.