South Asian languages : a syntactic typology / Kārumūri V. Subbārāo.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xix, 369 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521861489
- 0521861489
- 409.54 23 SUB
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401.9 SPI The Cambridge handbook of psycho linguistics | 404.209 GIB Maintaining a minority language : | 407.1 BAR Qualitative research topics in language teacher education / | 409.54 SUB South Asian languages : | 410 CLA Indo-European Linguistics - An Introducton | 410 COM The world's major languages / | 410 LYO Language and linguistics : |
1. Introduction -- 2. South Asian languages: a preview -- 3. Lexical anaphors and pronouns in South Asian languages -- 4. Case and agreement -- 5. Non-nominative subjects -- 6. Complementation -- 7. Backward control -- 8. Noun modification: relative clauses.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-355) and indexes.
"South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan [Indo- European], and Tibeto-Burman [Sino-Tibetan]). It focuses on the syntactic typology of these languages and the high degree of syntactic convergence, with special reference to the notion of "India as a linguistic area." Several areas of current theoretical interest such as anaphora, control theory, case and agreement, relative clauses, and the significance of thematic roles in grammar are discussed. The analysis presented has significant implications for current theories of syntax, verbal semantics, first and second language acquisition, structural language typology, and historical linguistics. The book will be of interest to linguists working on the description of South Asian languages, as well as syntacticians wishing to discover more about the common structure of languages within this region"--
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