Shobhana L. Chelliah

List of John Benjamins publications for which Shobhana L. Chelliah plays a role.

Journal

Title

The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] 2009. xx, 432 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
In retellings of the Pear Story in Meithei (Tibeto-Burman, Northeast India), it was found that NP shape–whether a lexical or zero anaphor is used – is determined not only by the cognitive accessibility of the NP but also by its animacy. Animacy also played a role in the morphological sequences… read more
Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah 2009 Introduction: The role of semantic, pragmatic and discourse factors in the development of caseThe Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. ix–xx | Article
Chelliah, Shobhana L. 2009 Semantic role to new information in MeitheiThe Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 377–400 | Article
The patient, associative, locative and agent semantic role markers in Meithei (Tibeto-Burman, Northeast India) each exhibit a homophonous enclitic, a morpheme which indicates information as new or surprising from the speaker’s perspective. It is argued that the system wide homophony is due to the… read more
In Meithei, a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, the noun pí ‘grandmother’ has undergone divergent paths of semantic change, developing on the one hand into a productive nominalizer and on the other into suffixes whose meanings are derived through metonymical extensions (SMALLER VERSION,… read more