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.
Richa Srishti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Richa Srishti plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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