These papers explore an important syntactic feature of South Asian languages, the experiencer subject construction. Contributing scholars investigate this feature in such languages as Marathi, Bhojpuri, Sinhalese, Marwari, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Kalasha, Gujarati, Bepali, Maithili, and Malayalam. The experiencer subject not only defines South Asian languages as a linguistic unit, but also has implications for theoretical linguistics. Mahendra Verma is a professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Tara Mohanan is a linguistics professor in the English department of the National University of Singapore.
| ISBN: | 9780937073605 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 1990 |
| Author: | Manindra K Verma, Karuvannur Puthanveettil Mohanan, Stanford Linguistics Association, Center for the Study of Language and Information US |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications an imprint of Center for the Study of Language and Inf |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 363 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology |