Trends in Hindi Linguistics / / ed. by Ghanshyam Sharma, Rajesh Bhatt.

Trends in Hindi Linguistics provides a snapshot of current developments in Hindi syntax and semantics and covers topics such as definiteness marking, comparative constructions with differentials, conjunct verbs, participial relative clauses, ellipsis, scrambling, infinitives and directive strategies...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 325
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 365 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Transliteration
  • (In)definiteness without articles: diagnosis, analysis, implications
  • Differential comparatives in Hindi-Urdu
  • The structure of complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis
  • Case licensing in Hindi prenominal relative clauses
  • Constraints on attributive functions of Hindi perfect participles manifesting the resultant state
  • On the nature of the Hindi infinitive: History as an answer to its syntactic behavior?
  • Main verb form in structures of ability/possibility in Hindi
  • Agreement in conjunct verb construction: let’s solve the problem
  • Conjunct verbs in Hindi
  • Impersonal expressions in Hindi-Urdu and phantom valents in Kashmiri
  • An attempt to understand the encoding of reduced transitivity in Hindi: the case of compound verbs with jānā
  • Syntactic constraints in modern Hindi
  • A pragmatic account of directive strategies in Hindi
  • Discovering the Hindi grammatical tradition: Historicity and second language acquisition
  • List of contributors
  • Index