Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Acknowledgements XI
5. Transliteration XIII
6. (In)definiteness without articles: diagnosis, analysis, implications 1
7. Differential comparatives in Hindi-Urdu 27
8. The structure of complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu: evidence from verb-phrase ellipsis 47
9. Case licensing in Hindi prenominal relative clauses 85
10. Constraints on attributive functions of Hindi perfect participles manifesting the resultant state 107
11. On the nature of the Hindi infinitive: History as an answer to its syntactic behavior? 115
12. Main verb form in structures of ability/possibility in Hindi 147
13. Agreement in conjunct verb construction: let’s solve the problem 187
14. Conjunct verbs in Hindi 217
15. Impersonal expressions in Hindi-Urdu and phantom valents in Kashmiri 245
16. An attempt to understand the encoding of reduced transitivity in Hindi: the case of compound verbs with jānā 265
17. Syntactic constraints in modern Hindi 287
18. A pragmatic account of directive strategies in Hindi 303
19. Discovering the Hindi grammatical tradition: Historicity and second language acquisition 333
20. List of contributors 355
21. Index 359