Overview

The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.

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Author:   Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi) ,  Richa Srishti (Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   209
Weight:   0.655kg
ISBN:  

9789027255921

ISBN 10:   902725592
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   25 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgement; 2. The lexicon-syntax interface: Some issues (by Chandra, Pritha); 3. Property concepts and the apparent lack of adjectives in Dravidian (by Menon, Mythili); 4. Adjective-fronting as evidence for Focus and Topic within the Bangla nominal domain (by Syed, Saurov); 5. Rich results (by Amritavalli, R.); 6. Lexical semantics of transitivizer light verbs in Telugu (by Balusu, Rahul); 7. Ditransitive structures in Hindi/Urdu (by Malhotra, Shiti); 8. Is Kashmiri passive really a passive? (by Srishti, Richa); 9. Middles in the syntax (by Chandra, Pritha); 10. Not so high: The case of causee in South Asian Languages (Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi & Manipuri) (by Srishti, Richa); 11. Agreement and verb types in Kutchi Gujarati (by Grosz, Patrick Georg); 12. Markedness and syncretism in Kashmiri differential argument encoding (by Manetta, Emily); 13. Author index; 14. Subject index

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This volume of collected papers focuses on the lexicon-syntax interface of the languages of South Asia, which offer a relatively less explored, but rich and variegated, range of linguistic phenomena. The discussion of data ranges from the Dravidian languages of southern India to Kashmiri in the north, Kutchi Gujarati in the west and Manipuri in the east. The theoretical results that the papers come up with are very important for general linguistic theory and for our evolving understanding of the nature of Language. -- K A. Jayaseelan, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

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