Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. JayaseelanJosef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, M.T. Hany Babu John Benjamins Publishing, 2007 M05 16 - 282 pages The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The contributions to the present volume combine theoretical reasoning in syntax and phonology with a comparative research agenda in which South Asian languages figure prominently. The topics range from issues of clause structure, serial verb constructions, cleft- and question formation, to the question of what the proper syntactic format of modification should be, issues of binding theory and raising, and issues of complementation, the clausal periphery and clausal typing. The collection of articles concludes with two chapters on Dravidian and comparative phonology and a chapter on the shaping of phonological awareness by different writing systems. The authors and the editors devote this piece of work to Professor K.A. Jayaseelan, one of present-day India s most influential linguists. |
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aaNA adjective analysis anaphor argument sharing Assamese Bangla bimoraic binding theory bole c-command Cambridge Chomsky CIEFL clausal complement cleft clitic cluster COMP consonant constituent constraint constructions coreference deletion task derived Dilip disjunctive disyllabic Doctoral dissertation DP-trace embedded clause English ennA epenthesis fact feature finite clause focus function geminates governing category Grammar head Hindi Hyderabad INFL inflected initial input interpretation inverse copula inverse copula sentence inverse sentence Jayaseelan John John’s Kannada Kayne kitap-khon lagait aich languages lexical Linguistic Inquiry Maithili Malayalam markedness matrix clause matrix verb morpheme movement nasal geminates noun obstruent optional Oriya overt particle perechilo phoneme phonology phrase position predicate prefix principle pronoun proposed pseudoclefts Punjabi question-word raaman reflexive relative clause requirement Reuland Riju riju-e Riju-ERG Rizzi scope semantic Sinhala Spec structure Subject-to-Subject Raising suffix syllable syntactic Syntax Telugu Telugu script tense tion Trochee University violation vowel words yes/no question