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Linguistic theory and South Asian languages : essays in honour of K.A. Jayaseelan

Print Book, English, 2007
John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2007
viii, 282 p. : gráf.
932560525
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Bayer, Josef); 3. Clause Structure; 4. What is 'Argument Sharing'?: A Case Study on Argument Sharing under VP-Serialization in Oriya (by Beermann, Dorothee); 5. Pseudoclefts: a Fully Derivational Account (by Boeckx, Cedric); 6. The Cleft Question and the Question of Cleft (by Madhavan, P.); 7. Clausal Pied-piping and Subjacency (by Srikumar, K.); 8. Modification in DP; 9. On the Syntax of Quantity in English (by Kayne, Richard S.); 10. Binding; 11. Coreference Violations 'Beyond Principle B' (by Gueron, Jacqueline); 12. Perspectives on Binding (by Reuland, Eric J.); 13. Raising from a Tensed Clause and Linguistic Theory: Evidence from Maithili (by Yadava, Yogendra P.); 14. Complementizers and Complementation; 15. The Ubiquitous Complementizer (by Dasgupta, Probal); 16. Word Order, Parameters, and the Extended COMP Projection (by Davison, Alice); 17. The Particle ne in Direct yes-no Questions (by Barbora, Madhumita); 18. Phonology; 19. Underspecification and the Phonology of *NC -Effects in Malayalam (by Das, Shyamal); 20. The Disyllabic Word Minimum: Variations on a Theme in Bangla, Punjabi and Tamil (by Vijayakrishnan, K.G.); 21. Writing Systems and Phonological Awareness (by Sailaja, Pingali); 22. List of contributors; 23. Bibliography of K.A. Jayaseelan; 24. Index of names; 25. Index of languages; 26. Index of topics