Clause Structure in South Asian Languages
Author | : V. Dayal |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781402027192 |
ISBN-13 | : 1402027192 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.