Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri

Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri

Author: R.M. Bhatt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9401592799

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3. 1 Kashmiri is not "non-Configurational" 45 3. 1 . 1 Agreement 51 3 . 1. 2 Binding Theory 52 3. 1. 3 Distribution of PRO 56 3 . 1. 4 Additional Evidence 57 3. 1. 4. 1 Weak Crossover (WCO) 57 3. 1. 4. 2 Constituent Fronting 60 3. 1. 4. 3 Superiority-Like Effects 62 3. 2 Word Order Constraints: Kashmiri Phrase Structure 64 3. 2. 1 N-complements 65 3. 2. 2 Postpositions 67 3. 2. 3 Adjectives 67 3. 2. 4 The Structure ofVP 68 3. 3. The Functional Projections 71 3. 4 Complement ki clauses 74 3. 5 Summary 79 4 Verb-Second (V2) Phenomena 80 4. 0 Introduction 80 4. 1 Kashmiri Vo rfe ld 84 4. 1. 1 V2 Clauses 85 4. 1. 1. 1 Main Clauses 85 4. 1. 1. 2 ki-Clauses 98 4. 1. 2 V3 Clauses 102 4. 1. 2. 1 Declarative Clauses 102 4. 1. 2. 2 Interrogative Clauses 107 4. 2 Some Exceptional Orders 116 vm 4. 2. 1 VI Order 116 4. 2. 1. 1 Declaratives 116 4. 2. 1. 2 Yes/No Questions 120 V-Final Order 4. 2. 2 121 4. 2. 2. 1 Relative Clauses and Adverbial Clauses 121 4. 2. 2. 2 Nonfinite Clauses 126 4. 3 Summary 129 5 Motivating Verb Movement 131 5. 0 Introduction 131 5. 1 The "Standard" Account 131 5. 2 Yiddish and Icelandic 136 5. 2. 1 Diesing (1990) 138 5. 2. 2 Weerman (1989) 141 5. 2. 3 Vikner (1991) 146 5.


Kashmiri

Kashmiri

Author: Omkar N. Koul

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1134931182

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Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists.


Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu

Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu

Author: Emily Manetta

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 9027208212

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-University of California, Santa Cruz) under the title: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu.


Compound Verbs in Kashmiri

Compound Verbs in Kashmiri

Author: Vijay Kumar Kaul

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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It is the first detailed study of the subject of compound verbs in Kashmiri. It presents an introductory review, problems and methodology, verb sequences, non-compound sequences, the class of operators and functional use of compound verbs. Dr Vijay Kumar Kaul has taught linguistics at South Gujarat University, and University of Asmara.


Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 1

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 1

Author: Tibor Kiss

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-02-17

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 3110377403

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This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.


The Lexicon–Syntax Interface

The Lexicon–Syntax Interface

Author: Pritha Chandra

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9027270821

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The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives, light verbs, middles, passives, causatives, agreement, and pronominal clitics, while trying to settle the theoretical tensions underlying the interaction of the lexicon with the narrow syntactic component. All the chapters critically survey previous analyses in detail, suggesting how these may or may not be extended to South Asian languages. Novel explanations are proposed, which handle not only the novel data presented here, but also pave alternative ways to look at issues of minimalist architecture.