Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

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 Struct

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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 61 Managing Editors Marcel den Dikken, City University of New York Liliane Haegeman, University of Lille Joan Maling, Brandeis University Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice Carol Georgopoulos, University of Utah Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University Michael Kenstowicz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hilda Koopman, University of California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Clause Structure in South Asian Languages Edited by VENEETA DAYAL and ANOOP MAHAJAN

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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S

INTRODUCTION

Clause Structure in South Asian Languages: General Introduction Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers University) and Anoop Mahajan (UCLA)

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FUNCTIONAL PROJECTIONS

01. Some Developments in the Functional Architecture of the Kannada Clause R. Amritavalli (CIEFL, Hyderabad)

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02. Two Types of Negation in Bengali Gillian Ramchand (University of Oxford)

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ARGUMENT STRUCTURE

03. The Serial Verb Construction in Malayalam K.A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)

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04. Causation and Reflexivity in Kannada Jeffrey Lidz (University of Pennsylvania)

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05. Light Verb Raising, Empty Preposition and Zero Derivation P. Madhavan (CIEFL, Hyderabad)

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CASE THEORY

06. The Status of Case Miriam Butt (UMIST) and Tracy King (Xerox PARC)

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07. Structural Case, Lexical Case and the Verbal Projection Alice Davison (University of Iowa)

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MOVEMENT PHENOMENA

08. Particle Movement in Sinhala and Japanese Paul Hagstrom (Boston University)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

09. The Topic Interpretation in Universal Grammar Ayesha Kidwai (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

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10. Remarks on Adsentential, Adnominal, and Extraposed Relative Clauses in Hindi