Trends in South Asian Linguistics / edited by Ghanshyam Sharma and John J. Lowe.

The field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent years, as a wider and more diverse range of languages have become subject to serious linguistic study, and as advancements in theoretical linguistics are applied to the rich linguistic data of South Asia...

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Other Authors: Sharma, Ghanshyam (Linguist) (Editor, Contributor), Lowe, John J. (John Jeffrey), 1982- (Editor, Contributor), Bhattacharya, Tanmoy (Contributor), Borchers, Dörte (Contributor), Chevillard, Jean-Luc (Contributor), Everaert, Martin (Contributor), Ghosh, Sanjukta (Contributor), Hale, Mark (Contributor), Kissock, Madelyn (Contributor), Kumar, Rajesh (Contributor), Lahiri, Bornini (Contributor), Molina-Muñoz, Adriana (Contributor), Nishioka, Miki (Contributor), Olson, Andrew (Contributor), Prasad, Ankita (Contributor), Ramoo, Dinesh (Contributor), Romani, Cristina (Contributor), Roy, Gargi (Contributor), Sanyal, Paroma (Contributor), Sharma, Vyom (Contributor), Subbarao, K. V. (Contributor), Sudharsan, Anuradha (Contributor), Taid, Tabu (Contributor), Vai, Massimo (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 367.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • On the syntax of comparative clauses in Vedic Sanskrit ... like someone eating the foam off the water
  • Some questions about yád in Vedic
  • A statistical model of syntactic and nonsyntactic factors affecting relative clause placement in Hindi
  • Optionality and variation in agreement in some participles in Hindi-Urdu
  • A cross-linguistic approach to sentential subjects in Kannada
  • Relation between animacy and case marking in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
  • Participles with a semantic void in Koints
  • Competition between vectored verbs and factored verbs in Hindi-Urdu, Marathi and Gujarati
  • How similarly do Hindi rakhnā and Japanese oku PUT behave as a V2? A corpus-based comparative analysis
  • The use of vector verbs in early modern Tamil
  • Reflexive and reciprocal marking in Mising
  • Reciprocals in Kokborok
  • A Case of Syntactic Convergence
  • A cognitive semantic analysis of locative and spatial constructions in Bangla
  • Revisiting Pāṇini's generative power
  • Hindi root allomorphy: Insights from phonological and morphosyntactic theory
  • Lexeme and speech syllables in English and Hindi. A case for syllable structure
  • List of contributors
  • List of contributors
  • Index of languages
  • Index of subjects.