Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan
[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp.
Bhuvana Narasimhan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bhuvana Narasimhan plays a role.
Title
Subjects Semantics | Typology
Articles
2013 Ergative case-marking in Hindi child-caregiver speech The Acquisition of Ergativity, Bavin, Edith L. and Sabine Stoll (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article
In the split-ergative pattern of case-marking in Hindi, the A-role argument typically receives ergative marking with verbs that have perfective inflection. Longitudinal data from three children acquiring Hindi (ranging in age between 1;5–3;2) and their caregivers reveal that ergative case-marking… read more
2012 Putting and Taking in Tamil and Hindi Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 201–230 | Article
Many languages have general or “light” verbs used by speakers to describe a wide range of situations owing to their relatively schematic meanings, e.g., the English verb do that can be used to describe many different kinds of actions, or the verb put that labels a range of types of placement of… read more
2012 Putting and taking events: A crosslinguistic perspective Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article