Full Description
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.
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
