Richa Srishti

List of John Benjamins publications for which Richa Srishti plays a role.

Title

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages

Edited by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] 2014. vii, 275 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti. 2014. The lexicon-syntax interface: Some issues. The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 1–24

Article

Srishti, Richa. 2014. Not so high: The case of causee in South Asian Languages (Hindi, Kashmiri, Punjabi & Manipuri). The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 197–216

The status of the causee argument in Hindi and other South Asian Languages has been contentious in recent literature as it takes instrumental/ablatice Case marker and hence, seems comparable to an instrumental/ablative adjunct (-se in Hindi, athi in Kashmiri, tõ: in Punjabi, and -n∂ in Manipuri).… read more | Article

Srishti, Richa and Shahid Bhat. 2014. Is Kashmiri passive really a passive?. The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages, Chandra, Pritha and Richa Srishti (eds.), pp. 149–170

The present paper explores passives in Kashmiri, a Northwestern Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan family. Though Kashmiri has some special features like V-2 phenomenon, pronominal clitics etc. it has an analytic passive construction like its Indo-Aryan counterparts. The internal argument surfaces… read more | Article