Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics : : 2008 / / ed. by Rajendra Singh.

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of id...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 209
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editorial Preface
  • General Contributions
  • Transparency and Arbitrariness in Natural Language: Some Empirical Issues
  • Reduplication and ‘echo words’ in Hindi/Urdu
  • No Smoke without Fire: Invisible Agent. Constructions in South Asian Languages
  • A Pragmatic Account of the Hindi Presumptive
  • Special Contributions: The Syntactic Typology of Dravidian: A Debate
  • What’s So Subversive about Dravidian? Revisiting Finiteness in Dravidian Syntax
  • Dravidian Syntactic Typology: A Reply to Steever
  • Regional Reports
  • North America
  • Linguistic Publications in Bengali (2000–2008): A Brief Review
  • South Africa
  • Linguistic Publications in Punjabi (2000–2008): A Brief Survey
  • Reviews
  • Gregory D. S. Anderson The Munda Verb: Typological Perspectives
  • Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and M. T. Hany Babu (eds.) – Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in Honour of K. A. Jayaseelan
  • Colin P. Masica (ed.) – Old and New Perspectives on South Asian Languages: Grammar and Semantics
  • Ghanshyam Sharma – Il dizionario di Hindi: Dizionario Hindi-Italiano, Italiano-Hindi
  • Dialogue
  • Bengali Determiner Phrase Revisited: A Response to Dasgupta and Ghosh
  • The Study of ‘Indian English’: What is It Good for?
  • Backmatter