Syntactic analysis of the licensing of negative polarity items.
Studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. This book outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure.
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Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Clause Structure of Hindi; Chapter 3 Syntax of Negation in Hindi: Description and Representation; Chapter 4 Negative Polarity Items in Hindi and the Structural Conditions on Their Licensing; Chapter 5 Syntactic Constraints on NPIs in Hindi;
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415976466
Publisert
2006-02-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
530 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
200
Forfatter
Biographical note
Rajesh Kumar teaches Hindi at the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texas at Austin. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interest lies of South Asian and Tibeto-Burman Languages.