The Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, Book 209) by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti
English | 2014 | ISBN: 902725592X | ISBN-13: 9789027255921 | 282 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 902725592X | ISBN-13: 9789027255921 | 282 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
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.