About the Guest Editors and Chief Editor

Chapters in this book

1. Titelei I
2. Commentum Editoris 7
3. Guest Editors’ Preface 9
4. Two Grammars in One: Sentential Complements and Complementizers in Bengali and other South Asian Languages 11
5. Language Mixing, Typology, and Second Language Acquisition 37
6. Typology vs. Convergence: The Issue of Dravidian/Indo-Aryan Syntactic Similarities Revisited 63
7. Where do Compound Verbs Come From? (And Where are They Going?) 101
8. Typology of Verbal Categories of The Languages of Nepal 131
9. Ergativity Attrition in the History of Western New Indo-Aryan Languages (Panjabi, Gujarati and Rajasthani) 159
10. Convergence Patterns in Tuluva: A New Scope for Comparative Studies 185
11. The Definition and Significance of Linguistic Areas: Methods, Pitfalls, and Possibilities (with Special Reference to the Validity of South Asia as a Linguistic Area) 205
12. Personal Pronouns and Related Phenomena in the South Asian Linguistic Area: Convergent Features or Convergence-resisting Features? 269
13. The Role of Language of Religion in the Convergence of South Asian Languages 289
14. Dative Subject Constructions in South Asian Languages 311
15. Morphological Diversity and Morphological Borrowing in South Asia 349
16. Convergence and Resistance to Morphological Change in Agglutinative Languages of South and Central Asia 369
17. Creolization and Convergence in Morphosyntax: Sri Lanka. Portuguese and Sourashtra Nominal Marking Typology 391
18. Ergativity in Gujarati, Hindi, and Pashto: The Evidence from Causative Constructions 411
19. Agreement in South Asian Languages and Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework 457
20. The Interplay of Typological and Genetic Factors in Determining the South Asian Language Area 493
21. The Proto-Munda Verb System and some Connections with Mon-Khmer 517
22. About the Guest Editors and Chief Editor 541
23. Notes on Contributors 543
24. Sonstiges